Nat'l GOP Operative Says He Knew Nothing of Phone Jamming - (TPM - Muck)

Nat'l GOP Operative Says He Knew Nothing of Phone Jamming
By Paul Kiel - April 13, 2006, 3:24 PM

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for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told TPMmuckraker last night that he had nothing to do with James Tobin's plan to jam Democratic phone banks on Election Day, 2002. According to him, it was strictly a local affair.

LaCivita, a conservative political operative best known to Democrats for his work as a media consultant to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (whom he lovingly refers to as "the swifties"), also said that the same went for the NRSC. But when pressed about why he'd made an appearance on the prosecution's witness list for Tobin's trial, he referred further questions to his lawyer.

LaCivita, Tobin's boss for the 2002 elections, denied knowing anything about the jamming until it was reported for the first time in the press - which would have been February, 2003, three months after the crime. "We like to win, but we like to win fair," he said. He went on to say the same for anyone at the RNSC: the "RNSC would never engage in that kind of activity - haven't, wont." He went on to say, "I think you'd get the same out of anyone else in D.C."

When asked why he had shown up on the prosecution's witness list at Tobin's trial, he said that it had to do with the simple fact of his being Tobin's superior. I pressed him for more, and he said, "We've already given our statements to - there's not any more to say than that." He directed to me to his lawyer, Richard Cullen. Cullen could not be immediately reached for comment.

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Link: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000366.php#more

First deny, then run to lawyer. Bad form, mate!

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lol!

The GOP Lawyer of the Hour
By Paul Kiel - April 13, 2006, 4:03 PM

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Well, I think that means Cullen has pulled far away as the Republican defense lawyer of the moment.

Why? Let's count 'em: he has clients in the Valerie Plame Investigation, the AIPAC investigation, the Abramoff investigation, and now the phone jamming scandal. And since he represents Tom DeLay, he's also got a piece of the Duke Cunningham scandal - Brent Wilkes, one of Cunningham's defense contractors, also courted DeLay.

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Link: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/

Dud's gonna be REAL busy apparently!

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