PALAST
EXPLAINS
‘CAGING’
Monica Goodling dropped a bombshell
in her testimony before the House Judiciary
Committee last week, according to journal-
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ist Greg Palast, and hardly anyone in the
U.S. media blinked.
Goodling, a staffer for Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales and liaison to the White
House, testified that Gonzales’ Chief of
Staff Kyle Sampson perjured himself, lying
to the committee in earlier testimony. The
lie: Sampson denied Monica had told him
about Tim Griffin’s “involvement in
‘caging’ voters” in 2004,” writes Palast at
www.gregpalast.com
“The perplexed committee members
hadn’t a clue — and asked no substantive
questions about it thereafter,” says Palast.
“Karl Rove is still smiling.” So what is
“caging”?
“The Bush-Cheney operatives sent hun-
dreds of thousands of letters marked ‘Do
not forward’ to voters’ homes. Letters re-
turned (‘caged’) were used as evidence to
block these voters’ right to cast a ballot on
grounds they were registered at phony ad-
dresses,” says Palast. “Who were the evil
fakers? Homeless men, students on vaca-
tion and — you got to love this — American
soldiers. Oh yeah: most of them are black
voters.”
Palast says caging is a felony offense and
Griffin, Rove’s right-hand man, was direct-
ing the illegal purge. Griffin was then
named U.S. attorney for Arkansas, at
Rove’s insistence.
U.S. media are are “missing the real
story behind the firing of the U.S. attor-
neys,” says Palast. “It’s not about removing
prosecutors disloyal to Bush; it’s about re-
placing those who refused to aid the theft of
the vote in 2004 with those prepared to bur-
gle it again in 2008.”
“How do I know?” he asks. “I have the
caging lists … I have them because they are
attached to the emails Rove insists can’t be
found.”
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dences of cancer. Their
report, released two
weeks ago, indicated
there are increased in-
cidences of acute
mylegenous leukemia
(AML) and lung can-
cer in certain areas in
the neighborhoods.
Medical histories
indicate, however, that
the majority of people
in the cases for both
types of cancer had a
history of smoking. The report concluded
further research was needed in the AML
cases to determine if the cancer was affected
by environmental exposure or other factors.
There was no significant elevation in cases
of nasal and brain cancer. OSCaR will con-
tinue to monitor incidences of brain cancer
at the community’s request.
In the same neighborhoods adjacent to
J.H. Baxter, many years of railroad opera-
tions at the Union Pacific Railyard have
caused environmental contamination in the
soil and groundwater. This contamination
may also have had a negative impact on
the health of nearby residents and
workers.
SHINE is hosting a meeting to discuss
this environmental contamination in the
River Road and Trainsong neighborhoods.
Epidemiologist Jae Douglas will review
findings from the public health assessment
report completed earlier this month. The
meeting is at 6:30 pm Thursday, May 31 at
the Red Cross, 862 Bethel Dr. For more in-
formation
see
http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/shine/uprsite.shtml
To read the cancer report and comment
on the investigation in neighborhoods sur-
rounding J.H. Baxter and other industrial
sites visit www.healthoregon.org/superfund
SHINE invites comments through June 30
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