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October 23, 2005
Are the righties planting stories to submarine Miers?
This is weird.
Miers panel to hear 'explosive testimony'?Gag order lifted for ex-lottery boss claiming Miers kept 'lid' on Bush Guard controversy
Released from a gag order, Larry Littwin – the controversial former director of the Texas Lottery under Harriet Miers – is free to appear at the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings to give "potentially explosive" testimony damaging both to President Bush and his nominee, according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi.
As WorldNetDaily has reported, Littwin allegedly was fired by Miers because he wanted to investigate improper political influence-buying by lobbyists for GTECH, the firm contracted to run the lottery.
Corsi believes that Littwin, according to an examination of hundreds of contemporary Texas newspaper accounts, will be able to establish under oath that the GTECH contract was preserved on a no-bid basis by then-chairwoman of the Lottery Commission Miers in order to "keep the lid on" the National Guard controversy involving then-Gov. Bush.
World Net Daily is a notorious planting ground for the rightwing smear machine. Their "journalism" is dubious at best, so whether there's a real story there or not remains to be seen.
Clearly someone (or lots of someones) is clearly unhappy with Miers as the SCOTUS nominee and wants to get some dirt out there on her. Fascinatingly this seems to be from the right..given that it's World Net Daily.
Pass the popcorn. This is turning out to be some hella good political theatre.
(hat tippage to Seeing The Forest)
Posted by Carla at October 23, 2005 09:55 AM