Fool me Twice

The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom
by Greg Palast

Explaining the importance of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez aide Monica Goodling's testimony to the House Judiciary Committee that Gonzales chief of staff Kyle Sampson "perjured himself, lying to the committee in earlier testimony." Sampson had "denied Monica had told him about" the "caging" felony by which "Rove's right-hand man... was directing the illegal purge" of mostly African-Americans from the voter rolls in 2004. In 2006, "right-hand man" Tim "Griffin was named, on Rove's personal demand, U.S. attorney for Arkansas."

The committee was perplexed about Monica's panicked admission and accusations about the caging list because the U.S. press never covered it. That's because, as Griffin wrote to Goodling in yet another email,.. their caging operation only made the news on BBC London: busted open, Griffin [wrote], by that "British reporter," Greg Palast.... Our BBC team broke the story at the top of the nightly news everywhere on the planet—except the USA—only because America's news networks simply refused to cover this evidence of the electoral coup d'etat that chose our president in 2004. And now, not bothering to understand the astonishing revelation in Goodling's confessional, they are missing the real story behind the firing of the U.S. attorneys. It's not about removing prosecutors disloyal to Bush, it's about replacing those who refused to aid the theft of the vote in 2004 with those prepared to burgle it again in 2008.