Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzales, as was revealed in new e-mails leaked to ABC, plotted to fire all 93 US Attorneys in 2005 and replace them with (their term in the e-mails) “loyal Bushies.” We now know that the litmus test that made a US Attorney a “loyal Bushie” was whether they took official action any time the sacred “voter fraud” phrase was invoked. It has now even been claimed that negligence on the issue of “voter fraud” was the cause for the firings of 8 US Attorneys in late 2006. It was important to Rove and Gonzales that all 93 US Attorneys have absolute loyalty on this mysterious subject. Any allegation, no matter how wild and baseless, of “voter fraud” (for example, nonwhite, working class people voting in numbers too large for a GOP victory) were to be attacked with the mighty power of the US Prosecutor’s office. Likewise, the new Attorneys’ concept of “voter fraud” must be crafted to ignore questionable practices such as purges of voter rolls by the GOP to reduce registered Democratic Party-registered voters. You think I’m stretching? Read the e-mails released earlier this week. So what is this all about?
They tried to pack all 93 US Attorneys’ Offices, with no chance of Senate confirmation hearings, with election stealers. Political officers who would persecute Democratic voting blocks from coast to coast, while turning a blind eye to any GOP election wrongdoing. Nothing less.
UPDATE: The New York Times is on the same track.
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