NEWS: Some Seriously Bad Mojo Coming for Fat Boy Rove

POLITICS: Some Seriously Bad Mojo Coming for Fat Boy Rove

The Office of Special Counsel is opening a "broad" investigation into the actions of Karl Rove and his White House political operation. Usually the federal investigative unit only goes after low-level government employees, but apparently the brazen arrogance and law breaking was too much.

Currently there are several investigations being conducted by Congress, but this would be the first to unify everything under one umbrella. A horrible fat man named Rove appears to be the creature behind every political operation the Special Counsel is investigating. Most damning of all, this inquiry comes from inside the administration.

The emails are the most exciting part of this investigation. The Democrats have discovered that the Republican National Committee maintained e-mails written by White House personnel under the domain name of “gwb43.com.” It is illegal for employees of the White House to use outside servers.

This is where it gets really interesting, according to Bob Fitrakis, political science professor and the co-author of "What Happened in Ohio? A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election." He believes those RNC servers were not just used for illegal e-mail.

First of all, you have to be either retarded or ignorant to not believe there was election fraud in Ohio. The evidence is overwhelming.

Bush was losing Ohio late into the night. Exit polls showed a Kerry victory. Then, just after midnight, for 90 minutes, election results were frozen on the Secretary of State’s website. The explanation was that the state was waiting for the rural counties results. Apparently they didn’t trickle in, they all came at once because 90 minutes later Bush was on top. By the way, exit polls are the main detector of voter fraud across the world. Just not in the USA.

So, what happened? We don’t know. The Republican Secretary of State attempted to have the ballots destroyed but was stopped by a judge. Now the Democrats control Ohio and they are seeking answers.

The Republican Party controlled the technology that allowed the tally of the vote in Ohio to be reported to the media and voters. The incredibly odd results were routed by country election officials through the Republican Secretary of State’s office and the final results were hosted out of a computer in Tennessee. The Party created, owned and operated the vote-counting system that reported Bush's re-election.

Don’t know if anyone has noticed lately, but the Bush administration doesn’t give a shit about the law. Voter fraud would, quite simply, be within character. What will investigators find if they look into RNC servers? Maybe nothing, maybe a lot. Would they be dumb enough to use RNC servers? Wouldn’t put it past them. But, most importantly, some crazy professor in Ohio wants investigators check it out, so they should.

Anyone know if a president has been tried for treason? Call it wishful thinking, but I think we may have a first come 2009.

tell me that photo up top is real...

This article made me happy. Thank you, FTR.

Finally! The PIGS are marching...

You know, I think it is, but I think it was staged as a practical joke. I could easily be wrong, though.

The buzzflash site kinda says that that office is totally under control of the prez, and that this is just a whitewash mechanism - a rove scam, seemingly.

That bit about the Ohio Sec of State's website and the RNC servers is staggering.

That second paragraph in the Rolling Stone article is priceless. Shredding Democratic registrations?

I hate being fat.

I'm skeptical that we'll see the results we need, but damn, it is about time!!!
was the valerie plume case not enough?!! apparently not, let her burn~~

and his evil has nothing to do with having "round bones" clovesbud

So the ballots still exist, and are held somewhere secure? Recount, please.

There just isn't enough Pepto-Bismol to get me through 'til January '09.

I wouldn't get too excited. Bloch is a Bush appointee facing his own investigations and whose record, especially with whistleblowers and gays, is pretty craptastic. More than likely, this is a way to pre-empt Congress, eager to follow up on Hatch Act violations following Lurita Doan's hilarious testimony, and keep the entire issue "under investigation" until Bush/Rove leave office.

I'd love to see Rove locked up, but I'll be amazed if Bloch approaches the investigation in a way detrimental to the First Brain.

-TTm

Ooh, a "Special Office" within the executive branch investigating itself!?! I'm sure through their due diligence investigators will find nothing and claim no wrong doing occurred. Rove is such a colossal douche and he's got all the cards stacked in his favor. I cant wait to see if congress authorizes an independent investigation of the independent investigators from the Special counsel investigating the White House... Kind of reminds me a little of Dr. Seuss' Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (Having to watch the bee watcher-watcher who watched the bee-watcher who watched the bee.)

... is the important phrase here -- there's nothing protecting him once he's an ex-president.

I have absolutely no doubt that they would be dumb enough to use the RNC servers for that kind of thing.

I'm quite curious to see where this goes.

If it looks like a duck, and sounds like a duck...

We all get to play duck duck goose!

Walter Mebane, a political scientist at Cornell, has done some work on the 2000 and 2004 elections, using some pretty wonky simulations (that I'm not sure I 100% buy, by the way) - and his early work indicates that something fishy was going on in Ohio. He focuses more on discrepencies in Ohio's urban areas actually - especially Cleveland. Regardless of where it happened, it seems like something *did* happen - and it's truly troubling.

There was a Law and Order episode that deal with Voting Fraud in the 2000-2001 season. Fictional NYC court wouldnt let the votes be re-counted.

I like this...I like this a lot.

Am I the only thats more than just a little worried about technology? Seems like the more we have worse things get. At least when a bloke was swinging a battle ax at you you knew the damn thing was being swung at the very least. Where the fuck is Neo when you need him?

I really way more shit is going to hit the fan than the poor fan can even handle. I wouldn't be suprised if we ended up with a Watergate x 1000. My whole family truly believes the ohio results were rigged. I think my mom wants Bush's head!

Huh? Gimme a toke on that man.
This is not a science fiction movie...

"These are not the election results you are looking for. Move along."