The latest on the NH phone jamming Republicans

The New Hampshire 2002 Republican phone-jamming scheme still has many teeth with which to bite the National Republican Party leadership. The Senate Majority Report provides the latest filing by one Defendant Shaun Hansen. Here is the write-up of the best part by the Senate Majority Report:

"Apparently, Hansen's defense strategy is not going to focus on whether or not he jammed Democratic phone lines on Election Day in 2002. Rather, his defense strategy will be to persuade a jury that he may have been persuaded not just that the phone jamming was legal, but that he would be carrying out the scheme on behalf of the United States government.

(Far fetched? Maybe not. GOP Marketplace, the firm which brought Hansen into the phone jamming scheme, was owned in part by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. In addition, phone records show hundreds of phone calls from the NH Republican party and convicted phone jammer James Tobin to the White House Office of Political Affairs during the time the scheme was being planned, carried out, and covered up.)"

This has the potential to really get to the Republicans.

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Bloggers discussing this post include:

• Suburban Guerrilla.
• EmptyWheel at The Next Hurrah
• Hansen's indictment announced

Then the legal filing is:

• Notice of Affirmative Defenses (.PDF document)

Followed by the list of calls to the White House:

• White House phone calls during Jamming action