The correct term is “purging.” If a company – or political party – or any other group, has a list and they want to avoid sending direct mail to people on the list who have died or moved, they send the list file to be “purged” to a companies that specialize in this work. This is done by matching the list to the Social Security Administration’s death index, the Postal Service’s Change of Address database, and other 3rd party service providers who have databases to which the existing list can be matched to identify names who should be removed based upon the company’s desired criteria.

Think about this. These GOP operatives actually engaged in an effort to “purge” the voters lists of as many minority voters as possible. When you understand this simple reality you’ll know why they had to invent all this “caging” baloney. It’s a lame attempt to hide from the real term that describes what they were doing. They were engaged in an effort to “ethnically cleanse” voter lists by purging (not “cagaing”) minority names from the list.

— Adlai Stevenson, Democratic Presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956 (vs. Dwight David Eisenhower)

Guys, it’s not just about politicizing the Justice Department, it’s about who stole the last three elections in Florida, Georgia and Ohio, among others.

Who is left to bring RICO charges? Like Diogenes, I’m looking for an honest man or woman to presecute the Rove/Bush/Cheny crime family.

Call me jaded. This was an Orwellian doublespeak moment from the getgo. Otherwise, why the heck didn’t they follow up on it???

Correction: FOURTH Tier
from Wikipedia
“Regent Law was ranked in Tier 4 by U.S. News, the lowest ranking and essentially a tie for 136th place out of 170 schools surveyed.”

“In addition, by Harris’ decree, ChoicePoint – a private firm – was hired prior to the (2000) election to identify and remove thousands of names from the state voters list on the condition that these people were convicted felons. Many of these would-be voters were turned away at the polls or even prior to reaching the polling places. It would later be discovered that approximately 97% of the people removed from the list – and thus denied the right to vote in the election – were not felons at all. The majority of these voters were African-American, and as African-Americans predominantly vote Democratic, the situation suggested foul play.[13] In any case, the thousands of votes affected by Choicepoint’s error were far in excess of the number of votes (537) by which George W. Bush won the state.”

You can see more about this and me (after all I’m now out of a job) in the documentary “Unprecedented.”) In addition, there are my Republican friends in New Hampshire who were convicted for jamming Dem phone lines and my buddies in Ohio also convicted for voter fraud.

In 1973 the Watergate hearings unearthes – gasp! – horrible behavior from the Democrats! They brought the campaign manager from the West Hollywood McGovern office to tell about how they let a guy use the mimeo to produce 500 flyers that said (of I can’t believe the horror of it all) that Nixon was not kosher.

And that, my friends, was that. One President steals democracy. One office manager lets some bozo with lousy taste print 500 flyers. Fortunately a lot of people in the hearing room had the good sense to LAUGH.

If anyone honestly can think these are equivalent – that 2 kids in Milwaukee committing a single act of vandalism have exactly the same power and significance as the presidential campaign apparatus does in disenfranchising voters – you need a SERIOUS reality check. Your democracy is being stolen and you should CARE even if it’s not YOUR vote.

I was living in Milwaukee at the time and was horrified when all of this broke in the news.

BTW, for the record, I am a registered political non-partisan. The bottom line is what they did was wrong.

“Caging is a “direct mail term”? Someone please check to see her law degree, because if she’s got an illegal as Hell “caging” scam with “direct mail” she’s not qualified to be an attorney.

But all of this is just a dog & pony show anyway. If this hearing were serious and they wanted to get to the bottom of what would be one of the biggest crimes committed by any administration they’d call Greg Palast before the hearing. Not only could Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. give them an explanation of what “caging” is, but they have direct evidence of who did it.

But that of course won’t happen. Accountability, justice and truth, like Elvis, has long ago left the building.

Why does she think those lists were created. Why does she think that something was mailed to that address. Did she think it was simply advertising? She doesn’t know that if the letter is returned, that is grounds for taking that person off the voter rolls – even if they mistyped the address in the first place (which was the case in several of the caging operations), or it was returned because the person who lived there is now in the military (which was the case in many other caging operations). I find it scary that this bimbo held a position of power in the Bush Administration. It makes one wonder how many other incompetent and corrupt Republic operatives there are out there in our government making large salaries for corrupting our system of government.

For immediate release
Wednesday 23 May

BBC Television’s Newsnight has 500 “missing” Rove office emails including a series of self-incriminating notes which provide “the keys to the kingdom” behind the prosecutor firings.

Just released… go to http://www.gregpalast.com for the rest-