Doesn’t this just piss ya off??? Did this US attorney get canned? Something else, they keep saying Bush had no knowledge of these firings of US attorneys……but in the same breath they’ll say “they serve at the President’s discretion.” So why the hell wouldn’t he know?

By Beverley Wang, Associated Press Writer | March 21, 2007

CONCORD, N.H. –A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed the conviction and sentence of a former Republican National Committee official accused in a phone-jamming plot on Election Day 2002.
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James Tobin[/tag], the former regional chairman of President Bush’s re-election campaign, was convicted in 2005 of helping to arrange more than 800 hang-up calls that jammed get-out-the-vote phone lines set up by the state Democratic Party and the Manchester firefighters’ union for about an hour. Republican John Sununu defeated then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen for the Senate that day.

Tobin was sentenced to 10 months in prison on charges of telephone harassment.

But the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled that the statute under which Tobin was convicted “is not a close fit” for what Tobin did and questioned whether the government showed that Tobin intended to harass. A Justice Department spokesman said prosecutors were reviewing the decision, and did not say if they planned to appeal.

“Oh my God, wow, you know sometimes there is no justice,” said New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairwoman Kathy Sullivan.

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