I have nothing intelligent to say about it. I’m sickened. I’m horrified. And, selfishly, I’m very, very afraid of the blowback on this.

Go read Billmon’s posts on the topic.

Bev Harris’s entry about investigation of her website (in case it’s not still at the top, it’s from April 29) and the government’s hamhanded attempts to use one crime (which from the sounds of it, was the government attempting to entrap her into the crime) to piggyback and find out some other information:

Now, I have been interviewed by the Secret Service on this VoteHere “hack” story about five times. They never spend much time on the hack. Most of the time is spent on the Diebold memos, which they claim they are not investigating.

Here’s the deal: The leaking of memos to journalists is not something the government can come in and demand to investigate very easily.

Under the Patriot Act, “hacking” crimes were turned over to a new division, called the CyberCrimes division, and placed under the auspices of the Secret Service. And let me tell you what they want from me now: They want the logs of my web site with all the forum messages, and the IP addresses. That’s right. All of them. A giant fishing expedition for every communication of everyone interested in the voting issue. This has nothing to do with a VoteHere “hack” investigation, and I have refused to turn it over.

You know what? I don’t know if things would be better under John Kerry. I do know that they’ve gotten this bad under George Bush.

(Found via Body and Soul.)

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(Via Hesiod)

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With all this flap over the candidates’ military service, why isn’t anyone asking the relevant question: is John Kerry sane enough to be President? I mean, he joined the military in 1968, after Tet. He requested to be sent to Vietnam.

However, in case you’re wondering if this is a serious question, I’ve donated money to the Kerry campaign.

Although, apparently I’m an unwilling donor to Bush/Cheney ’04 too.

Would someone on the Democratic side please stand up and scream about this already?