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"Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.
Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads."
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I don’t pretend to understand the legalese of the American election process but why would Obama’s camp request the Department of Justice to investigate the finances of the group who made the TV spot as opposed to filing a complaint with the Federal Election Committee if the ad was blatantly false or heck why not do both?
/sidenote: Sorry about the run on.