Newly released DoJ memo confirms that McKay's "investigation" of the 2004 election was a sham
A year ago fired U.S. Attorney John McKay was being lionized by the mainstream media for supposedly resisting partisan political pressure to conduct a baseless investigation into Washington's 2004 gubernatorial election. The media accepted as settled fact McKay's insistence that he conducted a thorough investigation and found "no evidence" of crimes. When I interviewed McKay last May it came out that his "investigation" was limited to reviewing trial documents, that he demanded an implausibly high standard of "evidence" (amounting to a confession of participation in a conspiracy to tip the election) before he would proactively investigate or even interview election workers, and he denied knowledge of the hundreds of unlawfully counted votes that were discovered only after the trial ended.
McKay suggested that I FOIA his "close out" memo of the investigation, which would document his investigation in great detail. EFF Legal Counsel Jonathan Bechtle made the FOIA request and received the memo earlier this month.
http://soundpolitics.com/3-13-06_Storm_memo_toDOJ.pdf The memo confirms: the investigation was a sham. The FBI and DoJ wouldn't even acknowledge post-trial reports of unlawful vote counting.
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