Did the White House order phone jamming?
Did White House Direct Phone Jamming Scheme?
Washington, DC – A new report suggests that the national Republican establishment–including the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and even the Bush White House–may have had a role in the criminal Election Day phone jamming scheme that disenfranchised countless New Hampshire voters in 2002.
The Union Leader today reported that “court records show Ken Mehlman’s office received more than 75 telephone calls from now-convicted phone-jam conspirator James Tobin from Sept. 30 to Nov. 22 of that year.” At the time, Mehlman–the current RNC Chair–was White House political director. [Union Leader, 3/23/06] This raises the disturbing question of whether Tobin, who worked for the RNC and the NRSC at the time and has since been convicted on two criminal charges for his role in the scheme, discussed the plan with one of the President’s most important political strategists.
Today’s news also has important implications for other national Republican figures. At the time the phone jamming scheme was devised and implemented, Tobin’s supervisor at the RNC was Terry Nelson, who Arizona Republican Senator John McCain recently hired as a senior strategist for his Political Action Committee. This means that McCain may have hired one of the key figures in the phone jamming scheme. </i>
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