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October 17, 2008
Obama Wants to Prosecute Those Seeking to Prevent Vote Fraud
Update: Bloomberg Deletes the Quote? Huh?
Breathtaking.
Barack Obama's campaign attorney today asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to add a probe into allegedly false Republican claims of voter fraud to the investigation into the firings of U.S. attorneys.
Republican voter-fraud accusations ``seek both to suppress the vote and to unduly influence investigations and prosecutions,'' wrote Robert Bauer, general counsel for the Democratic presidential nominee.
Bloomberg Walk-Back? Or Cover-Up? The Bloomberg story that JWF and I quote did contain that quote.
It no longer does. Claire writes:
I checked the Bloomberg article that JammieWearinFool cited -- it's different than you and he quoted.
Now it's all about the news leaks.
Googlenews still has the "Mukasey to add a probe into allegedly false Republican claims of voter fraud" word string in it. Just not the article it points to....
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The wind is chillier than I thought.
Now, Bloomberg's quote was, indeed, a quote. They quoted specific language from a letter.
Did they really err in reporting this? Or did Obama simply demand they retract?
Hmm... Well, now when I click on the article, the story still says that Obama is demanding an investigation into those who allege voter fraud, but the quote from the letter is disappeared.
Seems to be a work in progress.