Conyers to Pursue Carl Rove's "Caging Lists" Operations Against American Voters in the 2004 Presidential Elections

June 1, 2007 (LPAC) - In a vastly under-reported statement by Monica Goodling before the House Judiciary Committee last week, Goodling referred to former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and his failure "to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in `vote caging' in the President's 2004 campaign."

Vote caging is an illegal practice used to suppress the votes of those who fail to answer registered mail sent to their home address (because they are away from home, at school, for example, or overseas fighting in a war). Letters returned, or "caged" were used as evidence that voters were registered at phony addresses and should therefore be denied the right to vote. Reportedly, the Rove operatives, including the above-named Tim Griffin, had sent hundreds of thousands of such letters, marked "Do Not Forward," to voters homes, prior to the 2004 election, targeted to knock Democrats off the ballot.

Tim Griffin resigned Thursday as the interim, never-confirmed, U.S. Attorney for Arkansas, just hours after BBC Television "Newsnight" reported that Representative Conyers had requested the network's e-mail evidence on Griffin's involvement in caging voters. According to Greg Palast (June 1st), who appeared on the BBC program, and who provided these e-mails to Conyers in New York on Thursday evening, Tim Griffin was then the GOP Deputy Communications Director and had transmitted the "caging lists" of voters to state party leaders. Palast writes, "After reviewing key documents, Conyers stated that, despite Griffin's resignation, 'We're not through with him by any means'. Conyers indicated to the BBC that he thought it unlikely that Griffin could carry out this massive 'caging' operation without the knowledge of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rove."