{"id":7160,"date":"2006-04-17T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2006-04-17T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T17:28:00","slug":"phone-jamming-scandal-wont-fade-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/phone-jamming-scandal-wont-fade-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone-jamming scandal won&#8217;t fade easily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to follow up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7107.html\">an item<\/a> from last week, it&#8217;s worth noting that the [tag]phone-jamming scandal[\/tag], in the midst several other [tag]Republican[\/tag] scandals, seems to be holding on. In particular, Dems in New Hampshire and DC continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2006\/04\/13\/white_house_pressed_on_nh_tactic\/\">raise a fuss<\/a> and ask pesky questions such as, &#8220;Why did the regional chairman of Bush&#8217;s presidential campaign call the White House 12 times while orchestrating a criminal scheme to jam telephone lines at a Democratic get-out-the-vote center?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adam Cohen had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/17\/opinion\/17mon4.html?ex=1302926400&#038;en=95d7f18eb564ed89&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">an interesting item<\/a> in the NYT today drawing a few uncomfortable parallels between this story, which has barely generated national attention, and a certain White House scandal of yesteryear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bloggers are fascinated by what they see as eerie parallels between [tag]Watergate[\/tag] and a phone-jamming scandal in [tag]New Hampshire[\/tag]. It has low-level Republican operatives involved in dirty campaign tricks. It has checks from donors with murky backgrounds. It has telephone calls to the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who can blame us? As Cohen explained, this controversy offers:<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;The return of the second-rate burglary,&#8221; with ambiguous connections to the White House;<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;The return of the high-priced lawyer,&#8221; with the RNC paying [tag]Tobin[\/tag]&#8217;s legal bills instead of treating him like a &#8220;rogue actor who implicated the national party in a loathsome and embarrassing crime&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p>* Jack [tag]Abramoff[\/tag]&#8217;s tribal clients donated the almost-exact amount of the cost of the phone jamming to the New Hampshire GOP, despite the fact that New Hampshire doesn&#8217;t have any federally recognized Indian tribes or Indian gambling;<\/p>\n<p>* and, of course, &#8220;What did they know, and when did they know it?&#8221; by virtue of the multiple Tobin-White House phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>A low-level state Republican crime, or a far bigger deal? Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to follow up on an item from last week, it&#8217;s worth noting that the [tag]phone-jamming scandal[\/tag], in the midst several other [tag]Republican[\/tag] scandals, seems to be holding on. In particular, Dems in New Hampshire and DC continue to raise a fuss and ask pesky questions such as, &#8220;Why did the regional chairman of Bush&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}