Okay, since we don’t get C-SPAN 3 in this godforsaken place, I’ve been obsessively hitting "refresh" over at TPM all day and waiting on pins and needles for 6PM to arrive so that I could watch the rebroadcast of Kyle Sampson’s grilling on C-SPAN 1.
For weeks, I’ve been working on a post on what’s really behind the prosecutor purge, but health and work issues have kept me from finishing it to my satisfaction. Part of the problem is that it has grown to such a length that it has to be split into separate posts. I’ll be doing that tonight.
Josh Marshall and Paul Kiel over at TPM have been doing an incredible job of covering the whole mess, and of unraveling what’s behind it. They’re mostly there: A few days ago, Josh finally snapped to the fact that it was not in fact Carol Lam’s investigation of Cunningham, Lewis, Foggo, Wilkes, et al. that drove the purge - Lam was more a case of serendipitous timing - but rather, the so-called "voter fraud" issue that underlies the whole sordid thing. He’s not quite there yet on the whole story, but he’s got a lot of it.
Obviously, I can’t speak from personal experience with regard to what occurred in Washington, Florida, South Dakota, and other states. However, I was at ground zero for this effort in New Mexico during the 2004 election, and I can provide some first-hand background that is, I’m positive, representative of what went on in other states. Throughout the course of this evening, I’ll be throwing up discrete posts on various players and issues. I may not get through it all tonight, but by tomorrow morning, you should have a good picture of what happened here three years ago, and how a good soldier like David Iglesias has become the latest victim of administration swiftboating.
Stay tuned . . . .
And BTW: I know Sessions is an administration pimp, but does Specter have to fellate them quite so obviously?
