Tying the White House to the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal
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Following up on yesterday’s item, there’s growing evidence that Bush’s Justice Department intentionally delayed prosecuting Republicans in the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal in order to delay anti-GOP headlines before the 2004 election.
Just as importantly, there are new insights about the White House’s role in the same criminal controversy.
On the morning of election day 2002, repeated hang-up calls assaulted six phone lines tied to the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Three Republican operatives, including consultant Allen Raymond, eventually ended up in jail for their involvement in the phone jamming scheme. A fourth, former RNC offical James Tobin, will begin a second trial in February.
In his new book, Raymond alleges that the scandal goes “to the top of the Republican Party” because “the Bush White House had complete control of the RNC” and there was no way such a risky tactic wouldn’t have been “vetted by” Tobin’s “high-ups.”
Indeed, Raymond documents all of this in his fascinating new book, “How to Rig an Election,” which I’ve been reading this week. On this point, he writes, “The Bush White House had complete control of the RNC, and there was no way someone like Tobin was going to try what he was proposing without first getting it vetted by his high-ups. That’s if Tobin, rather than one of his bosses, had even thought of the ploy himself — which seemed unlikely.”
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Following up on yesterday’s item, there’s growing evidence that Bush’s Justice Department intentionally delayed prosecuting Republicans in the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal in order to delay anti-GOP headlines before the 2004 election.
Just as importantly, there are new insights about the White House’s role in the same criminal controversy.
On the morning of election day 2002, repeated hang-up calls assaulted six phone lines tied to the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Three Republican operatives, including consultant Allen Raymond, eventually ended up in jail for their involvement in the phone jamming scheme. A fourth, former RNC offical James Tobin, will begin a second trial in February.
In his new book, Raymond alleges that the scandal goes “to the top of the Republican Party” because “the Bush White House had complete control of the RNC” and there was no way such a risky tactic wouldn’t have been “vetted by” Tobin’s “high-ups.”
Indeed, Raymond documents all of this in his fascinating new book, “How to Rig an Election,” which I’ve been reading this week. On this point, he writes, “The Bush White House had complete control of the RNC, and there was no way someone like Tobin was going to try what he was proposing without first getting it vetted by his high-ups. That’s if Tobin, rather than one of his bosses, had even thought of the ploy himself — which seemed unlikely.”
(Continued here.)
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