I got an email from somebody purporting to be an FBI agent a few years ago, about my business, and trying to track down some information on somebody who bought something from it.

It was from a yahoo address, and they had asked for business records for a certain time, so i pretty much shined it on.

Lo and behold a few weeks letter, i get a certified letter from the same person via snail mail.

I think i asked the person when I called her what’s the deal with the yahoo email address, and she said that they do sometimes use them due to problems with email they have.

So strangely as it seems, an FBI agent in the fraud division sent me an email from a yahoo account.

being a texan ain’t real easy like.

(i have been on 10mg of lexapro for four years now.)

and i come here every night to mainline all the deep pure blue i can get.

GPB@53:

I have had the same thought over the last few years.

I moved to NW Georgia about 8 years ago from Florida. I have had my house on the market since last September because I want to get the hell out of here and go back to Florida to get away from the narrow minded conservative majority of people here. With some exceptions, most of them have minds like steel traps–that have been left out in the rain so that now they are rusted shut!

I think alot of people in the South need a brain enema.

I feel like a bright blue dot in a very dull red state.

i respect GPB a great deal, but there are at least two reasons to not have Lincoln blow off the Confederacy.

the Union was worthy preserving and still is.
And slavery is an abomination and must be destroyed.

i live in Red meat texas in the bluest state capital (”Live Music Capital of the World“) in all the South.
we had six years as shrubRove as our governor, before they attacked D.C.
i feel shame as big as the Dixie Chicks for what has been inflicted on our world in Texas’ name by these carpetbagging Connecticut Yankees.

It could not be tolerable for the North to coexist with a slave Confederacy on it southern border.

Imagine a vast slave-economy subsidized Klan Army.

The South had to be defeated.

we CAN still be repatriated!

Please?

Hatch has a number of fingers in the Turdblossom pie.

must delete mental image.
must delete mental image.
must delete mertal image …

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Mark Foley?!?!?!

So, I wonder if President Bush viewed the pre-election Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) sex scandal as being “a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants”?

Or maybe it was an “overblown personnel matter” not deserving of the intense media coverage afforded it before last November’s elections?

Josh Marshall says: “But we know that US Attorney David Iglesias was fired because he wouldn’t submit to pressure from Republican activists and members of Congress to issue an election-timed indictment to save New Mexico’s Republican Rep. Heather Wilson.”

He also points out that what is “missing” from the DOJ document dump may be just as important as what has been released up to this point.

So, let’s look at the clues that might indicate what is “missing”:

1) By last October, Bush, Rove and Gonzales had politicized as much as possible the offices of the U.S. Attorneys.

2) The Mark Foley sex scandal broke like a tsunami wave over the House Republican leadership, the White House political strategists and all the Republicans running for election or re-election around the country…including Heather Wilson of New Mexico.

3) David Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, is contacted during this critical October pre-election time-frame, to generate anti-Democratic Party publicity, to help Heather Wilson in her bid to retain her seat in Congress.

You do see the pattern, don’t you?

In Karl Rove’s mind, the essential thing before any election is to control “the message,” to control “the publicity,” and the Mark Foley sex scandal had turned last year’s Republican election strategy upside down. Instead of Rove ordering the “swift-boating” of Democrats, the Mark Foley sex scandal was “swift-boating” Republicans around the country, and the scandal was based on facts, not on fabricated lies.

Thus, all the Republican-appointed U.S. Attorneys were mobilized to “pushback” against the negative publicity of the Mark Foley sex scandal in an attempt to push this scandal into the background and replace this negative publicity detrimental to Republicans with news reports of contrived Democratic Party improprieties.

This is what is missing in the emails released. Any internal White House deliberations involving the Mark Foley sex scandal, as well as any communications with anyone in the DOJ that refers to the handling of the Mark Foley sex scandal last October, are not being released.

I don’t believe the Mark Foley scandal was the sole reason for the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys in December, but I do believe it served as a catalyst. Why? Because Rove and the neo-con Republican strategists realized that if certain U.S. attorneys were unwilling to “break the law” concerning “pushback” over the Mark Foley sex scandal, then (in Rove’s and their minds) how could these rogue U.S. Attorneys be trusted to “help” the Republican cause in the lead-up to the November 2008 elections? Thus, eight U.S. Attorneys, who chose following the apolitical, non-partisan “rule of law” over helping the Republicans retain control of Congress last year, HAD TO GO.

Which, of course, makes one wonder how corrupt the Republican-appointed U.S. Attorneys who were not fired are? What did they do to help “pushback” last year against the negative Republican publicity generated by the Mark Foley sex scandal? Can any of them be trusted to follow the “rule of law” and put aside their partisan allegiances, especially in the lead-up to the November 2008 elections?

Any “rule of law” American, whether Democrat or Republican or Independent, should be very concerned over the answer to these questions.

Which makes interrogating Monica Goodling, the DOJ’s White House liaison, that much more important, under oath, in public, before a congressional hearing. Last October, during the midst of the Mark Foley sex scandal, she would have been the go-between, passing Rovian partisan instructions to the DOJ and to the U.S. Attorneys on how to handle the fallout from the Mark Foley sex scandal. Hopefully, her “extended leave of absence” doesn’t involve her skipping the country?

As regards the “off-the-books” communications:

As an IT weenie with a great amount of curiosity and a suspicious nature, the first place I would look is in Knoxville TN. I would move out from there as logs are analyzed.

But really, setting up a mail server on a DSL line, anywhere, is trivial stuff.

How deep does this rabbit hole go? All the way, I suspect.

Well, I noticed your screen name.

oregondave @ 112

kdh @ 99

Why do you call him Moroni?

Morman prophet.

Oh, Thanks! I obviously need to educate myself with Mormonism. Appreciate the linky!

Recommended read: “Under the banner of Heaven” by Jon Krakauer