Staff / TruthdigOct 19, 2008
Not a moment too soon, here's FactCheck.org's assessment of the recent hullabaloo over ACORN, the beleaguered community organization that has been yanked into the epicenter of the election battle since Team McCain seized upon it as a Campaign Talking Point™. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 19, 2008
The Los Angeles Times randomly contacted dozens of voters who were recently re-registered as Republicans and found that over 80 percent of them didn't know they had joined the party's ranks. How did this happen? Looks like a GOP contractor called Young Political Majors, or YPM, had something to do with it. Update: The cops are on it. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 18, 2008
By way of a response to the McCain camp's claims about Barack Obama's ties to ACORN, Obama's campaign has put in a request to Attorney General Michael Mukasey to "turn over any investigations of voter fraud or voter suppression to Special Prosecutor Nora Dannehy, the same special prosecutor recently appointed to investigate the U.S. attorney firing scandal," according to CNN. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigOct 18, 2008
As John McCain and GOP operatives rattle their sabers about ACORN's alleged "voter fraud" tactics, tag-team investigators Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have released some truly scary findings, in the latest Rolling Stone, from their investigation into Republican efforts to steal the 2008 presidential election. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Bill Boyarsky / TruthdigOct 17, 2008
After Wednesday’s big debate, McCain-Palin volunteers celebrated what they considered a big victory for their presidential candidate. But the real action was taking place in courts miles away. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 2, 2007
Ousted U.S. Attorney David Iglesias says he believes he was fired, in part, for failing to meet the obsessive demands of a nonprofit organization with ties to the Republican Party that allegedly sought to limit the voting rights of minorities. Is there a more heinous political practice than the disenfranchisement of minority voters after so long a struggle? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 1, 2007
Check out Robert Greenwald's latest effort to get a review of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' shenanigans in the U.S. attorney/voter fraud scandal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Marie Cocco / TruthdigMay 17, 2007
It is time to stop referring to the "fired U.S attorneys scandal" by that misnomer, and call it what it is: a White House-coordinated effort to use the vast powers of the Justice Department to swing elections to Republicans. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigApr 19, 2007
Even as Alberto Gonzales rehearsed his excuses for the strange dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys, which he performed in public at a Senate hearing this week, he was looking like a marginal player in this scandal. In keeping with his presidential nickname "Fredo," the attorney general probably never understood the broader plan originating in the Bush White House. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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