MUST WATCH/RECORD Greg Palast "I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding."

Amy Goodman and Greg Palast Mom's Day broadcast
Greg Palast

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This Sunday 7pm (EST) - on C-SPAN's Book TV Amy and Greg have a couple of neo-cons for lunch recorded live at the LA Book Fest. Want a taste? Read the Interview with Palast from the Dollars & Sense magazine spring issue about to hit the streets …

"I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding."

Dollars & Sense: In the new edition of your book, ARMED MADHOUSE, you report on the theft of the 2008 election. How do know what they're doing? Any way to stop them?

Palast: I know because I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding. He and his team aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. They sent copies of their plans to GeorgeWBush.ORG instead of GeorgeWBush.COM addresses -- and, heh heh, they ended up in my in-box. Who says this job ain't fun?

Dollars & Sense: Bush fired eight prosecutors. You were behind the scenes on that story long before it broke in the US. What are they still withholding from us?

Palast: Look, it's all about VOTES. You'll see that the prosecutor that Karl Rove insisted in putting in place is a slithery character named Tim Griffin. He's the guy I busted as the spider-mind behind the "caging lists" which purged thousands of Black voters. The prosecutors fired, as you'll see in Armed Madhouse, include those, like David Iglesias in New Mexico, who refused to bring phony cases of fraud against legitimate voters. It's a matter of economics: the Republican party is systematically knocking out lower-income voters; that makes their purges racially biased -- but my data show that's just the effect of hunting down and attacking the ballot power of working class and poor voters. Disenfranchisement is class war by other means.

the Book TV program on Iraq with Robert Scheer and Chris Hedges, among others. Very powerful and worth watching. It was from the same LA event as the Palast panel but a separate panel. There's something else that looks interesting from 8-9pm ET.

How long did he have them? Why doesn't he buy white space on the NYTs and print them?

and he said the same thing about the emails. He didn't say why he didn't release them. Maybe he did and the media buried the information (although he probably would have said if that were the case). Maybe he's turned them over to Leahy and Conyers. He didn't say.

...I'd be asking hard questions about now.

while testifying, or some other dramatic moment.

Or, maybe he held them long enough to keep the investigations honest? And if he found them get derailed because of a "Monica" problem, THEN, he would publish them in the NYTs, to show how our entire system is compromised.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm#

It was discussed here at DU at the time and there were emails that were made public. Here's one thread I found for example: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=933691

Tim Griffin, an unfamiliar name then, was involved. Now Griffin is known as the Rove aide for whom a US attorney was fired so Griffin could take his place.

Major corporate media outlets, unsurprisingly, didn't cover the story as I recall.

called GeorgeWBush.org

the emails were sent there by mistake, the sender meant them for GeorgeWBush.COM

heheheheheh

in 2004 they made the some of the emails public and turned over the lot, as I recall, to Palast.

http://2004.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp