I just sent the following e-mail to the fine folks at Why War? where you can find links to the damning Diebold memos.
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Hello,
I’ve thought of a way you could forever make the memos public and there would be nothing Diebold could do about it. (Although your current campaign probably has accomplished this.)
The idea: Convince a U.S. Senator to read the memos during a fillibuster. Sen. John Edwards, who is running for president, has promised to fillibuster the Bogus Prescription Drug bill any time now. Senators often read all manner of irrelevant things while fillibustering, and they are immune from prosecution for anything they say, including supposed copyright violations, by the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause (U.S. Const., art. I, § 6, cl. 1). Anything they say is also published in the Congressional Record, and so the contents of the memos would be forever available there, and Diebold would have no recourse.
Senator Edwards contact info can be found here: http://edwards.senate.gov/contact.html
Good luck!
Brian
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It’s actually simpler than that, as a Senator can simply ask that any set of documents be “entered into the record” and so the memos could be entered into the record in this way. This happened with the Pentagon Papers years ago. But, I think it’s more fun and would garner more press attention if a Senator read a significant portion of the memos. Someone in the legislature needs to take notice of this serious issue regarding the integrity of our voting process.
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