But the reason Congress must investigate these high-tech ties is there is abundant evidence that Republicans could have used this computing network to delay announcing the winner of Ohio's 2004 election while tinkering with the results.I'm not so sure about "abundant evidence", but this narrative does make some sense of the nonsense in Ohio in 2004.
Before the 2006 elections, there was a lot of hand-wringing about the Diebold machines, but since the Dems had such great victories, no one really paid attention to the reports that there were irregularities in various places. The conspiracy theory goes (one I don't have a hard time believing) that Repubs fiddled with the votes, but there were so many votes for Dems, it didn't matter in the end.Bah, you're not thinking nearly evil enough.
"...the Office of Special Counsel is preparing to jump into one of the most sensitive and potentially explosive issues in Washington, launching a broad investigation into key elements of the White House political operations that for more than six years have been headed by chief strategist Karl Rove.posted by ericb at 7:13 AM on April 24, 2007 [1 favorite]
The new investigation, which will examine the firing of at least one U.S. attorney, missing White House e-mails, and White House efforts to keep presidential appointees attuned to Republican political priorities, could create a substantial new problem for the Bush White House.
First, the inquiry comes from inside the administration, not from Democrats in Congress. Second, unlike the splintered inquiries being pressed on Capitol Hill, it is expected to be a unified investigation covering many facets of the political operation in which Rove played a leading part.
'We will take the evidence where it leads us,' Scott J. Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel and a presidential appointee, said in an interview Monday. 'We will not leave any stone unturned.'
Bloch declined to comment on who his investigators would interview, but he said the probe would be independent and uncoordinated with any other agency or government entity.
The decision by Bloch's office is the latest evidence that Rove's once-vaunted operations inside the government, which helped the GOP hold the White House and Congress for six years, now threaten to mire the administration in investigations."
"Scott J. Bloch, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, 'who says he is investigating Karl Rove for allegations he influenced government activity for partisan purposes is himself facing allegations of similar behavior.' In April 2005, government watchdogs and others complained that 'the White House appointee had allowed his office to 'sit on' a complaint that then-White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice used government funds to travel in support of President Bush’s re-election bid.'"*posted by ericb at 6:58 PM on April 24, 2007
"The fact that OSC has been charged with handling these matters suggests the possibility that the White House is orchestrating a cover-up of its illegal and improper activities." *
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