{"id":501,"date":"2007-03-08T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T16:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2017-06-06T03:38:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T09:38:57","slug":"bushs-new-us-attorney-a-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/bushs-new-us-attorney-a-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s New US Attorney a Criminal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/griffin-caging1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/griffin-caging.thumbnail1.png\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>BBC Television had exposed 2004 voter attack scheme by apointee Griffin, a Rove aide. Black soldiers and the homeless targeted.<\/p>\n<p>by Greg Palast, gregpalast.com<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one thing worse than sacking an honest prosecutor. That&#8217;s replacing an honest prosecutor with a criminal.<\/p>\n<p>There was one big hoohah in Washington yesterday as House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers pulled down the pants on George Bush&#8217;s firing of US Attorneys to expose a scheme to punish prosecutors who wouldn&#8217;t bend to political pressure.<\/p>\n<p>But the Committee missed a big one: Timothy Griffin, Karl Rove&#8217;s assistant, the President&#8217;s pick as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Griffin, according to BBC Television, was the hidden hand behind a scheme to wipe out the voting rights of 70,000 citizens prior to the 2004 election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bushs-new-us-attorney-a-criminal\">(More)\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Television had exposed 2004 voter attack scheme by apointee Griffin, a Rove aide. Black soldiers and the homeless targeted. by Greg Palast, gregpalast.com There&#8217;s only one thing worse than sacking an honest prosecutor. That&#8217;s replacing an honest prosecutor with a criminal. There was one big hoohah in Washington yesterday as House Judiciary Chairman John&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-related-news2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bush&#039;s New US Attorney a Criminal? &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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