Lawyer says FBI is investigating pro-Lieberman blog postings

[NVMojo]

Wow, the FBI must not have any real work to do these days:

06/01/2006

A Hartford lawyer says the FBI has agreed to investigate postings promoting Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's re-election on a popular Connecticut-based Internet "blog" in the names of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Bruce D. Rubenstein, a former finance chairman for the Democratic State Central Committee and a Lieberman critic, said Wednesday that an agent in the FBI's Meriden office told him the agency would probe the postings on the "Connecticut Local Politics" Web log run by an Enfield man, Chris Bigelow.

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The FBI as a matter of policy refuses to confirm or deny that it is conducting any investigation.

Bigelow said Wednesday that he had not been contacted by anyone investigating the matter.

http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16722719&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=6

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. didn't we have a troll posting as Obama here a while back? nt

[anotherdrew]

7. we had someone with that as a screen name

I remember replying to them, at the time I thought it just barely possibile it was really him.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. maybe not a troll...

I do remember he wasn't here long. :shrug:

[ShockediSay]

11. who wants to bet it was AIPAC

that was somehow involved

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

20. Yes, it must be the Jews.

It's always the Jews, isn't it?

[havocmom]

2. FBI chasing bloggers? Guess they got back all that stolen data on vets

and cleaned up all the other crime in America? When do they go back to NOLA to nail, err, arrest another dozen hookers, or did that go out of style with Ashcroft?

:eyes:

[dmr]

16. It was a Dem who asked for an investigation

From the OP's link:

- snip -

Bruce D. Rubenstein, a former finance chairman for the Democratic State Central Committee and a Lieberman critic, said Wednesday that an agent in the FBI's Meriden office told him the agency would probe the postings on the "Connecticut Local Politics" Web log run by an Enfield man, Chris Bigelow.

- snip -

Rubenstein also asked the chief state's attorney's office to investigate the postings, but he said a supervisor there told him his request would be referred to federal authorities as a possible violation of a criminal impersonation statute.

"It's a real shame that somebody - either in a campaign or on their own - used what is apparently a deceitful tactic to try to benefit Sen. Lieberman before the convention," he said.

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[NVMojo]

3. very interesting as I heard a NV congressional candidate brag this

past weekend that her husband, a current NV congressman, could turn almost anything over to the FBI and get it investigated. Hmmmmm. So only if it's about Dems??? Who controls the FBI these days? hmmmmmm.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2316337

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Seems to be a lot of this sort of thing lately

I'm sure BushCo has made sure the FBI is full of rapture ready Bushbots at this point.

[Patsy Stone]

4. Hi, Agent Mike!

:hi:

[joefree1]

5. Agent Mike, bust any Democratic Congress folk today, tomorrow?

:hi:

[NVMojo]

9. you'd think they'd have the FBI spending time on the Vets Id theft or

election machines!

[wordpix2]

18. or Big Oil price gouging or JackoffCunninghamNeyBurns, or who faked the

Niger uranium sale documents. Oh well, FBI is in a lull with nothing to do.

[rooboy]

15. I believe Agent Mike is Secret Service, not FBI n/t

[OKthatsIT]

10. They never cease to amaze me...how many ways can we waste $, and time

This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo stupid.

[Voltaire99]

12. Obama's shameful shilling for Lieberman

Having only recently raised money for Lieberman, Obama is the next Joementum, as Alexander Cockburn wrote in April:

"Meanwhile, at the other end of the country in Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman faced a decidedly cool audience at a big Democratic dinner at the end of March and got bailed out by his brother senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, who told the crowd to haul out their check books and make sure Lieberman gets returned for another term."

"What kind of a signal is this? Here is Obama, endlessly hailed as the brightest rising star in the Democratic firmament, delivering (at a closely watched political dinner, with Lieberman's primary opponent, Ned Lamont, sitting in the crowd) a ringing endorsement to his 'mentor', Lieberman, Bush's closest Democratic ally on the war in Iraq, and overall pretty much a symbol of everything that's been wrong with the Democratic Party for the past twenty years. What a slimy fellow Obama is, as befits a man symbolizing everything that will continue to be wrong with the Democratic Party for the next twenty years. Every time I look up he's doing something disgusting, like distancing himself from his fellow senator Dick Durbin for denouncing the torture center at Guantanamo, or cheerleading the nuke-Iran crowd."

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn04072006.html

[cantstandbush]

13. Typical neocon, Rovian tactics. I hope they catch the bastards. nt

[NVMojo]

14. I suppose if it is GOP shills then it might be interesting!!!

[MGKrebs]

17. Full disclosure: I am not really Maynard G. Krebs.

In fact, I'm not even Bob Denver.


Do I have to put this in my sig line to keep from being investigated?

[wordpix2]

19. and I'm not Beaver Cleaver