GREG PALAST WRITES: @ Randi Rhodes

Boo-hoo! I made Tim Griffin cry. He cried. Then he lied.

You remember Tim... Karl Rove's right hand (right claw?) man. The GOP's ragin' cagin' man. Griffin is the Rove-bot exposed by our BBC News Night investigations team as the man who gathered and sent out the infamous 'caging' lists to Republican state chairmen during the 2004 election.

Caging lists, BBC discovered, were used secretly as a basis to challenge the right to vote of thousands of citizens - including the homeless, students and soldiers sent overseas. The day after the BBC broadcast that the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, sought our evidence on Griffin, Tim resigned his post as US Attorney for Arkansas. That job was a little gift from Karl Rove who made room for his man Griffin by demanding the firing of US prosecutor Bud Cummins.

Mr. Griffin, or others, may also have violated the Voting Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act, the mail fraud statute, or any other federal statute.Greg's story made its way to John Conyers Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and on into The US Senate. Senators Kennedy and Whitehouse are now demanding the "caging lists" that Tim Griffin accidentally sent to Greg.But WAIT, there's more!Greg's story of voter suppression in 2004 has LONG LEGS and they've walked right into the MOTHER LOAD of lawlessness.

At least 88 White House staffers were using RNC servers for OFFICIAL White House communications AND destroying the emails...

EXTENSIVE violations of the law!

FROM WAXMAN'S INTERIM REPORT:

The number of White House officials given RNC e-mail accounts is higher than previously disclosed. In March 2007, White House spokesperson Dana Perino said that only a “handful of officials” had RNC e-mail accounts. In later statements, her estimate rose to “50 over the course of the administration.” In fact, the Committee has learned from the RNC that at least 88 White House officials had RNC e-mail accounts. The officials with RNC e-mail accounts include Karl Rove, the President’s senior advisor; Andrew Card, the former White House Chief of Staff; Ken Mehlman, the former White House Director of Political Affairs; and many other officials in the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Communications, and the Office of the Vice President.

The Presidential Records Act requires the President to “take all such steps as may be necessary to assure that the activities, deliberations, decisions, and policies that reflect the performance of his constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties are adequately documented … and maintained as Presidential records.” To implement this legal requirement, the White House Counsel issued clear written policies in February 2001 instructing White House staff to use only the official White House e-mail system for official communications and to retain any official e-mails they received on a nongovernmental account.

The evidence obtained by the Committee indicates that White House officials used their RNC e-mail accounts in a manner that circumvented these requirements. At this point in the investigation, it is not possible to determine precisely how many presidential records may have been destroyed by the RNC. Given the heavy reliance by White House officials on RNC e-mail accounts, the high rank of the White House officials involved, and the large quantity of missing e-mails, the potential violation of the Presidential Records Act may be extensive.

HERE IS THE REST OF THE REPORT.

Also, what happens if you take a 1967 CIA memo on Vietnam and

replace the word 'Vietnam' with 'Iraq'?