Some excellent grassroots media coverage has developed over ex Justice Department official Monica Goodling’s testimony in front of Congress and where this investigation may lead to. BBC reporter and investigative journalist Greg Palast claims that the firing of eight prosecutors was ultimately not so much to get rid of the attorneys as to replace them with Rove cronies. Palast claims that associates of his, who own the domain georgewbush.org, mistakenly recieved hundereds of emails intended for addresses as georgewbush.com sent by White House officials via the illegal RNC accounts that we already know were used to communicate official white house business in violation of the Hatch Act.

Palast goes on to claim that some of the emails contained excel files with reams (think tens of thousands per state) of voter lists that targeted minorities and low-income precinct voters for vote challanges, otherwise known as ‘caging‘. Despite the illegality of caging with respect to race, RNC officials certainly did engage in massive voter challenges in 2004, a process they had previously been accused of in both 1981 and 1986. Palast is reportedly in contact with Committee Chair John Conyers. Perhaps more importantly, the RNC has, on camera, confirmed the validity of the emails while denying that the lists were used for caging purposes.

Palast recently appeared with R.F.K., Jr. in New York to talk about the voter fraud allegations, attorney firings and the likelyhood of fraud in the upcoming 2008 election. R.F.K., Jr., delivers a well reasoned argument on what he claims are the two biggest problems facing our country today, the intractable involvment of corporate dollars in our election process and the failure of mainstream media to educate the public. His evaluation of the Reagan administration’s repeal of the Fairness Doctrine and its consquences during the age of media consolidation is damning and hard to ignore. Check out the entire video here. And don’t forget to peruse Palast’s collection of RNC emails here.

 

Tags: Greg+Palast, Monica+Goodling, Caging, Voter+Fraud, Rove, Fairness+Doctrine, JP+Oliva

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