Wis. official's jailing 'ridiculous' - U.S. attorney's office denies White House pressed for case

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/334206,CST-NWS-release10.article

April 10, 2007
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Legal Affairs Reporter [e-mail]

An unusual development in a Chicago court Thursday is adding fire to the national debate about whether the Bush administration pressures federal prosecutors to play politics and replaces them if they don't.

The case against former Wisconsin state purchasing agent Georgia Thompson was so "ridiculous" that the judges ordered her freed from prison immediately after hearing oral arguments on the case.

Supporters of Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, for whom Thompson worked, had accused the Bush administration of bringing the fraud charges against Thompson to aid the campaign of Doyle's Republican challenger Mark Green. And Green exploited the charges against Thompson, running ads that sought to link Doyle to the alleged fraud.

Doyle won re-election anyway.

[Supersedeas]

1. the people in that office need to be put under oath and see if their were ANY WH contacts about the

case

Subjective recognition of pressure is one thing -- contacts with the wink and a knod is something too.

[fasttense]

2. And the republic's rival won anyway.

All that investigative work and money for a trial wasted because the republics want to turn our legal system into a black robed junta.

[The Magistrate]

3. U.S. Attorney Lies Like A Rug, Sir

Subpeonas are required here, and criminal charges for malicious prosecution.

[deminks]

4. Press and RW Pundits scream "There is no wrong doing"

and "KKKarl only took complaints about the attorneys"

Oh yeah?

I beg to differ.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=601018&mesg_id=601018



The mystery is solved.

For weeks, it was unclear who whined to the White House last year that not enough voter fraud cases were being prosecuted in Milwaukee.

Now we know.

The state Republican Party went straight to the top in its efforts to make voter fraud an issue in Wisconsin.

Sources tell No Quarter that Rick Wiley, then the executive director of the state GOP, directed a staffer in 2005 to prepare a 30-page report on election abuses in Wisconsin so Wiley could pass it along to a top White House official.

That document, entitled "Fraud in Wisconsin 2004: A Timeline/Summary," turned up last week in the horde of White House and U.S. Justice Department records released by the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

"The report was prepared for Karl Rove," said a source with knowledge of the situation. "Rick wanted it so he could give it to Karl Rove."

Yeah, that Karl Rove, President Bush's political mastermind and his deputy chief of staff.

The same guy who was knee-deep in helping decide which U.S. attorneys to keep or to boot.