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Interim U.S. Attn. and Rove Protégé Timothy Griffin Resigns

I wrote yesterday about the rumors that Thompson's campaign-to-be was courting Karl Rove lackey and interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas Timothy Griffin. Griffin's appointment caused a stir as it became apparent during the imbroglio that is the U.S. Attorneys scandal that Bud Cummins (the former U.S. Attn. Griffin replaced) had been forced out to make way for a Rove protégé. Yesterday, the Arkansas Times blog (thanks to ThinkProgress for spotting this) reports that Griffin has resigned, effective June 1. No word on whether he is joining the Thompson campaign, but the timing seems opportune, no? Griffin is the young prosecutor Monica Goodling mentioned in her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week. According to Goodling, former coworker Paul McNulty was being untruthful when he told the Senate Judiciary Committee in February that he knew nothing of Griffin's involvement in "caging" (a voter suppression technique). I stand by what I said yesterday. This not the best move for Thompson's campaign. Stay tuned.

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If he shows up in Thomson's campaign you can bet caging will become front page news...as it should have years ago. Up until now, no one would have cared about an attorney for the back-assward state of Arkansas. Now, since he'll be on the trail for the Republican with the most-favored candidate status, he's a bigger target.

Of course, now that I think about it, the MSM will be reluctant to bring this up since it seems they've all fallen head over heels for Thompson. Nevermind, no one will ever hear about caging. (At least those 99% of the populous that get their news from news-ertainment)

(Could this also be a ploy to remove the heat on Rove in the attorney firing scandal?)

Posted by: blue on 05/31/07 at 1:30 PM