Phone-Jamming Felon and Former Senior Republican Operative Raymond to Appear Before US House Comm

Phone-Jamming Felon and Former Senior Republican Operative Allen Raymond to Appear Before US House Judiciary Subcommittee Tuesday, May 13th
Author Raymond’s tell-all How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative captures attention of Judicial oversight subcommittee
Subcommittee to investigate possible White House involvement and Department of Justice interference in investigation of criminal actions by Republican National Committee “higher ups”

WASHINGTON, DC - May 13 -At the invitation of U.S. Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary per the request of U.S. Congressman Paul Hodes (D-NH), author Allen Raymond will appear before the Judicial Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is seeking to “investigate whether a politically motivated plot subverted justice” in the infamous 2002 New Hampshire “phone jamming” case which landed Raymond in a federal prison.

The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary will be asking whether the White House was involved in New Hampshire’s 2002 phone jamming scandal and whether the Department of Justice purposely mishandled the subsequent criminal investigation. "Voting is our most sacred right," Congressman Hodes said. "If anyone, let alone the federal government, has obstructed our right to free and fair elections, it is critical that it be known."

Records included in Congressman Hodes’ letter show that:

1. Twenty-two phone calls were exchanged between New Hampshire Republican officials and the White House Office of Political Affairs from 11:20 a.m. on Election Day 2002 to 2:17 a.m. the next morning, the day during which the phone jamming occurred.
2. The Republican National Committee paid over $2.5 million in legal fees resulting from criminal charges filed against defendant Tobin.
3. John Durkin (counsel for the Republican criminal defendants) was told by a DOJ prosecutor that all decisions in this case had to be approved by the Attorney General himself, a highly unusual requirement which blocked all progress on the case and delayed the conviction of James Tobin, Regional Political Director for the National Republican Party, until after the 2004 Presidential election.
Others scheduled to appear before the committee include:


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An advance look at Hodes' phone-jam testimony
By JOHN DISTASO
Senior Political Reporter
21 minutes ago

TUESDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., tomorrow will tell two subcommittees of the House Judiciary Committee that Granite Staters "deserve nothing less than the full truth" about the 2002 Republican phone jamming scandal.

"It is unclear whether the White House was involved in the phone jamming scandal," Hodes says in written testimony provided to UnionLeader.com this afternoon.

He also says "there were major delays in prosecuting the phone jamming case that have not been properly investigated."

Hodes will speak before the Judiciary panel's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law and Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security at 1 p.m. at the Rayburn House Office Building.

To read Hodes' complete written testimony, click here.

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http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=9084&SectionName=Politics&PlayMedia=No :

"Allen Raymond, "How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative"

About the Program

Allen Raymond talks about his experience as a Republican political consultant and his involvement in a plan to jam the phone lines of New Hampshire Democrats during the state's 2002 U.S. Senate election. Mr. Raymond served three months in federal prison for telephone harrassment. This program originally aired live on C-SPAN's Washington Journal on January 25, 2008.

About the Author

Allen Raymond was a Republican political consultant and the former manager of GOP Marketplace, a political telemarketing firm. "How to Rig an Election" is Mr. Raymond's first book.
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