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"AMY GOODMAN: We're taking a look at Keith Olbermann's blog from MSNBC.
He was quoting the statement given out by Warren County Commissioner
Pat South to MSNBC. You have also been quoting her a great deal. It's
quite a remarkable quote. It says, “About three weeks prior to
elections, our emergency services department had been receiving quite a
few pieces of correspondence from the office of Homeland Security on
the upcoming elections. These memos were sent out statewide, not just
to Warren County, and they included a lot of planning tools and
resources to use for Election Day security.” Pat South went on to say,
“In a face-to-face meeting between the FBI and our director of
Emergency Services, we were informed that on a scale from 1 to 10, the
tri-state area of southwest Ohio was ranked at a high 8 to a low 9, in
terms of security risk. Warren County in particular was rated at 10, 10
being the top highest risk. Pursuant to the Ohio-revised code, we
followed the law to the letter that basically says no one is allowed
within 100 feet of a polling place except for voters, and that after
the polls closed, the only people allowed in the Board of Elections
area where votes are being counted are the Board of Election members,
judges, clerks, poll challengers, police, and that no one other than
those people can be there while tabulation is taking place.” And yet,
Erica Solvig, now the Department of Homeland Security and FBI are
denying that they ever talked about a security risk here?
ERICA SOLVIG: They're saying that they were not aware of any increased
security risk in Warren County on Election Day. The county has declined
to give us the agent's name who told them this, because they haven't
talked to this agent - this is an FBI agent - anytime recently. But the
Homeland Security officials that we have talked to in the area, as well
as the FBI, are unaware of any increased security risk on Election Day.
Again, the primary concern was being locked out of a public building on
a night when the entire nation was watching, waiting for the results.
AMY GOODMAN: Is Warren County, Ohio, republican or democrat?
ERICA SOLVIG: It is Republican, but politics aside this was an
unprecedented action on their part. As far as we know and as far as the
Ohio Secretary of State's office knows this is the only county in the
state that locked the public out of the building.
AMY GOODMAN: One more time, as you point out in today's Cincinnati
Inquirer piece, Pat South the commissioner describes the FBI agent
coming to her?
ERICA SOLVIG: The FBI agent apparently spoke with some county officials
who then relayed the information to the commissioners. He actually
spoke directly to Frank Young, who is quoted in the article as well."
He was quoting the statement given out by Warren County Commissioner
Pat South to MSNBC. You have also been quoting her a great deal. It's
quite a remarkable quote. It says, “About three weeks prior to
elections, our emergency services department had been receiving quite a
few pieces of correspondence from the office of Homeland Security on
the upcoming elections. These memos were sent out statewide, not just
to Warren County, and they included a lot of planning tools and
resources to use for Election Day security.” Pat South went on to say,
“In a face-to-face meeting between the FBI and our director of
Emergency Services, we were informed that on a scale from 1 to 10, the
tri-state area of southwest Ohio was ranked at a high 8 to a low 9, in
terms of security risk. Warren County in particular was rated at 10, 10
being the top highest risk. Pursuant to the Ohio-revised code, we
followed the law to the letter that basically says no one is allowed
within 100 feet of a polling place except for voters, and that after
the polls closed, the only people allowed in the Board of Elections
area where votes are being counted are the Board of Election members,
judges, clerks, poll challengers, police, and that no one other than
those people can be there while tabulation is taking place.” And yet,
Erica Solvig, now the Department of Homeland Security and FBI are
denying that they ever talked about a security risk here?
ERICA SOLVIG: They're saying that they were not aware of any increased
security risk in Warren County on Election Day. The county has declined
to give us the agent's name who told them this, because they haven't
talked to this agent - this is an FBI agent - anytime recently. But the
Homeland Security officials that we have talked to in the area, as well
as the FBI, are unaware of any increased security risk on Election Day.
Again, the primary concern was being locked out of a public building on
a night when the entire nation was watching, waiting for the results.
AMY GOODMAN: Is Warren County, Ohio, republican or democrat?
ERICA SOLVIG: It is Republican, but politics aside this was an
unprecedented action on their part. As far as we know and as far as the
Ohio Secretary of State's office knows this is the only county in the
state that locked the public out of the building.
AMY GOODMAN: One more time, as you point out in today's Cincinnati
Inquirer piece, Pat South the commissioner describes the FBI agent
coming to her?
ERICA SOLVIG: The FBI agent apparently spoke with some county officials
who then relayed the information to the commissioners. He actually
spoke directly to Frank Young, who is quoted in the article as well."
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/10/1536254
Rovian tactic very obvious....the man who approached them was not with the FBI, but likely a staged actor named Andrew Card who had a vested interest in keeping the ballot counting out of the public spotlight.....Card did it? Could be....or one of his aides...
