Breaking: Pulling the DC end of NH phone-jamming string

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Thursday October 04, 2007 · 4:15 AM PDT

2007/10/04 · 04:15

The House Judiciary Committee has a new, better way to unravel the phone-jamming coverup.

Thats the real news in this letter from Conyers to Attorney General (pdf)--something reporters seem to have missed, so far.

No, Associated Press, the House Judiciary Committee is not headed back to NH in 2002. It will not be re-asking old questions of the old suspects, all of whom seem to have lawyered up and/or lost their memories.

"What did the White House know and when did they know it?"

That's what we want to know--and it's why Conyers will start from the Washington, DC end of the phone-jamming tangle.

Several million Republican dollars and years of Department of Justice "slow-walk" (detailed timeline here) kept investigators from tracking NH's phone-jamming scandal up into Washington.

Now the House Judiciary Committee has some very pointed questions for the new (acting) US Attorney General about exactly what did happen up there in Washington.

Representative John Conyers Jr., committee chairman and a Michigan Democrat, wants to get answers from the US Department of Justice about incident after incident in their non-pursuit of the Republican phone-jammers. Among these questions:

Why did all decisions regarding the phone-jamming prosecution have to be referred directly to the US Attorney General's office?

Why was the FBI agent assigned to the phone-jamming case (there was only one, and she worked part-time on it) ordered not to trace any leads that led to Washington?

Why did the US Department of Justice help Republicans block enquiries in the NH Democrats civil suit in 2004?

Thanks to Congressman Paul Hodes (NH-Dem), a member of Conyers' committee, for setting this investigation in motion.

Let's hope Congress goes further and faster than the DOJ!

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