Thursday, June 10, 2010
ACORN, voter fraud, and Barack Obama
It will be interesting to see how aggressively the non-Fox MSM covers this story:
The radical activist group ACORN “works” for the Democratic Party and deliberately promotes election fraud, ACORN employees told FBI investigators, according to an FBI document dump Wednesday.
The documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a watchdog group, are FBI investigators’ reports related to the 2007 investigation and arrest of eight St. Louis, Mo., workers from ACORN’s Project Vote affiliate for violation of election laws. All eight employees involved in the scandal later pleaded guilty to voter registration fraud.
Project Vote is ACORN’s voter registration arm. Project Vote continues to operate despite the reported dissolution of the national structure of ACORN.
The handwritten reports by FBI agents show that ACORN employees reported numerous irregularities in the nonprofit group’s business practices.
One employee told the FBI that ACORN headquarters is “wkg [working] for the Democratic Party.”
According to one report, an ACORN employee said the purpose of “[f]raudulent cards” was “[t]o cause confusion on election day to keep polls open longer,” “[t]o allow people who can’t vote to vote,” and “[t]o allow to vote multiple times.”....
The report also notes that employees were “[c]onstantly threatened” and that the staff were “instructed on what to say to FBI.”
Another report indicates an employee told the investigator, that ACORN “[t]old employees not to talk to the FBI.” The FBI is “‘trying to intimidate you.’”
Given Barack Obama's professional upbringing as a community organizer and past affiliation with ACORN, concerned righties will smell a conspiracy if Eric Holder's Justice Department does not open a new investigation against the group. Obstruction of justice convictions have been obtained with less. The answer to that question, though, probably turns on a predicate: Since the original investigation was in 2007, why didn't the Bush Justice Department bring a case?
6 Comments:
By 
Lycidas, at
Thu Jun 10, 10:15:00 PM:
Wait, wait, wait.
I have a question. How do you know that Obstruction convictions have been obtained with less?
(You answer and I'll amplify.)
By , at
Fri Jun 11, 05:28:00 AM:
By , at
Fri Jun 11, 10:51:00 AM:
By 
Buku, at
Fri Jun 11, 11:47:00 AM:
Q: It will be interesting to see how aggressively the non-Fox MSM covers this story:
A: So do we, what's your point?
By , at
Fri Jun 11, 12:18:00 PM:
And the answer is...criminal ! What ? Oh I'm sorry, I thought the post title was a word association exercise. Well, my answer is still accurate.
By , at
Thu Jun 17, 07:39:00 AM:
Good one Edward. That was my answer too.
--SilverKait
