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Should the DOJ Take Up the Letter Fraud Case?

Will the coal industry representative who may have lied under oath to Congress on Thursday face legal repercussions?

Steve Miller, CEO for American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a major coal industry lobby group, said under oath that his organization "has never opposed the Waxman-Markey bill," when in fact the group both publicly opposed the House climate bill and funded campaigns to convince legislators to vote against it.

Mother Jones contacted the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming to see whether they plan to pursue the issue. "We are currently reviewing the testimony and we will make any assessments on steps going forward after we review the testimony," said Eben Burnham-Snyder, a spokesman for the committee.

If the committee decides that there's cause to believe that Miller perjured himself, the matter would be turned over to the Department of Justice for investigation.

Activist groups are already hoping that the DOJ will get involved. After the details of the forged letters broke in August, the Sierra Club asked the DOJ to look into the case as potential wire fraud and MoveOn urged its members to sign a petition asking for a DOJ investigation.

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Should the DOJ Take Up the Letter Fraud Case?

It is academic, the answer is yes.

However, the political climate is warming or should I say heating up, so it may not happen.

Not prosecuting for "political speech" is the latest method of "bipartisanship" in DC.

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Letter Fraud Case?

Round and round and round we go,..
Just like Kyle Sampson suggested, gum up the works until you run the clock out - and the public goes weary and bored.

This canned, practiced and rehearsed testimony tells ya nothing. Greg Palast has 500 of the RNC/Rove/Griffin emails - where are the other 5 million missing emails.

If one is looking for the real workings of this Fascist Shadow Government - intent on 100 year Republican Nazi Party rule - those secret communications and emails must be made available for public review. These lying fascist bastards will not tell the truth - but the emails will - were are they ?

This is our government - not their private government. Those emails and communications are government property - by law need to be retained for public review. A second, secret, and shadow government has no place in a democracy - it is about time that point be made very clear.

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