I was totally offline yesterday so I may have missed an earlier post, but after some hunting around I haven't found anything so here goes.
The scandal that may be hot enough to even bring hardcore Republicans to the impeachment table in my opinion. We'll see where the trail leads. To read details, visit Greg Palast's story here.
And to make this super easy to absorb, I'll share the story here in easy bullet form:
- Tim Griffin, Karl Rove's "protege," resigned unexpectedly as US Attorney May 31.
- Griffin, you'll recall, replaced an actually qualified US Attorney in the firings scandal.
- The resignation comes a day after journalist Greg Palast showed Congressman John Conyers a 2004 email showing Griffin's involvement in caging voters.
- Caging voters is when you identify people who are likely to not be able to respond to inquiries about their legal ability to vote. For example, someone who is serving in Iraq is unlikely to respond to a letter sent to their home. The voter's ballot when returned from, say, Iraq, is not counted.
- Hilariously, the caging lists were obtained by Palast when an email was accidentally sent from Griffin to an email address at RNC.com, a spoof Web site, instead of RNC.org.
- Although the emails appear in Palast's book, this week marks the first time it has been reported that Congress is looking into the caging activities by the GOP.
- The implications of the caging lists are obviously that the Republicans, instead of supporting the troops, were stripping minority soldiers of their right to vote.
- Should Republicans in Congress be caught supporting a president who was stripping soldiers of their voting rights, they'll be toast. Therefore if this investigation goes deep enough, impeachment could be possible.
Update:
Wow my first time on the rec list! Thanks everyone! My apologies for not being around most of the day for comments. I got called away unexpectedly!