Finally, "somebody" said it. Kudos to Greg Gordon and David Goldstein:
In recent weeks, McClatchy Newspapers has recounted this broad effort to use the power of the Justice Department to affect the outcome of the 2006 election. McClatchy found that, as U.S. attorney, Schlozman brought voter-fraud indictments days before the election against four people who were registering voters for a liberal group in Kansas City. The hotly contested election resulted in Missouri Republican Sen. Jim Talent's defeat, handing control of the U.S. Senate to Democrats.
That's the story. Not that we expect the cocktail wienie-munching courtiers at Pravda
on the Potomac and Izvestia on the Hudson to cover it, of course.
A person familiar with the congressional inquiry, who insisted upon anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information, described Schlozman as a central figure because he ties together "all of the threads" of the investigation.
According to the person, Schlozman "cleaned out" career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division, replaced them with partisans and was involved in using "vote suppression mechanisms" of voting rights laws, including supporting actions to pare lists of registered voters and backing state laws that toughened voter identification requirements before the 2006 congressional election.
What a surprise. The more we did into what Bush is doing to the "unitary executive," the more rancid it gets. As usual, the whole fucking barrel is full of "bad apples."
NOTE Josh, I think, first framed the issue as "affecting election outcomes", and I think he's right, so it's excellent to see McClatchy pick this up.
We're not talking about a President's right to bring in his own team, or putting his own policies in place, or even "politicizing," whatever that means.
We are talking about using the criminal justice system to bring fake indictments against Democrats right before elections!
We are talking about stealing people's right to vote!
As always, the Republicans define political deviancy down, down, down, down.
UPDATE For Justice shenanigains in Missouri, see Tom's post here.
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Lambert, for goodness sakes...
While you're worrying about silly stories like rampant politicization and fraudulent prosecution in the DoJ, the MSM is working the truly important issues.
Did you know the price of a haircut has shot up to $400? Thank goodness there are professional journalists tackling the *big* stories.
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2004-2006 Election Fraud Analytics
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2004/2006 Election Fraud Analytics: Response to the TruthIsAll FAQ
Last Update: May 7, 2007 by TruthIsAll
Part I contains a comprehensive statistical analysis of 2004/2006 pre-election and exit polls. The 2004 National Exit Poll had Kerry winning by a steady 51-48% from 4pm (8649 respondents) to 12:22am (13047 respondents). But Bush won the 2pm Final NEP (13660 respondents) by 51-48%. In the Final, impossible weights and implausible vote shares were required to force a match to the recorded vote count. The True Vote Model determined that Kerry won the popular vote by 66.1-58.4 million (52.6-46.4%) and the electoral vote by 336-202.
In the 2006 midterms, the Democrats gained 31 congressional seats – a solid victory. But they actually did much better than that. A regression trend analysis of 120 pre-election Generic polls (all won by the Democrats) projected they would win by 56-42% – and gain more than 40 seats. The National Exit Poll at 7pm (55D-43R) confirmed the pre-election trend: a Democratic tsunami was taking place. But at 1pm the next day, the Final NEP used implausible weights and vote shares in order to once again force a match to the recorded vote count. The Democratic margin was cut in half to 52-46%. The fraud resulted in the loss of 10-20 additional seats.