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Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House

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Posted on Apr 11, 2006

Democrats say Republican officials made two dozen calls to the White House in 2002 as part of a plot to tie up get-out-the-vote efforts in New Hampshire’s 2002 Senate race.

There are already three federal convictions and a pending indictment in the case.

AP:

Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House

By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
Tue Apr 11, 1:41 AM ET

Republican officials describe the two-dozen calls to the White House around Election Day 2002 as normal conversations about a close Senate race in New Hampshire.

Democrats have suggested in a court filing that another subject was discussed: a GOP scheme that jammed phone lines to keep state Democrats from being encouraged to vote.

The phone-jamming operation has led to three federal convictions and a pending indictment. Prosecutors have not raised questions in court about the White House conversations—but records of the calls were available to them as criminal court exhibits.

The records show that Republican campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002—as the jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down.

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