The New Hampshire phone jamming caper lives on!
In a letter to House oversight committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) today, Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH) asks that the committee investigate. Not only is there evidence that the White House might have been involved in the jamming, Hodes writes, but there’s evidence that Justice Department officials interfered in the prosecution. He wants the committee to “determine if a politically motivated plot did in fact obstruct justice in this case, and if so to take such steps as may be reasonable.” You can read his letter here. Democrats had earlier requested that the Senate Judiciary Committee probe the matter.
Three guilty pleas and one conviction have resulted from investigation of the scheme, where Republicans conspired to jam Democratic phone lines on Election Day, 2002.