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As the AP reported yesterday, James Tobin, the RNC regional political director who helped orchestrate the New Hampshire phone jamming, was in very frequent contact with the White House.

But who at the White House? Tobin was calling one number, a number in the White House’s Office of Political Affairs – which was run by Ken Mehlman at the time. Whose number was it?

The AP asked the White House who Tobin was calling, but they were stonewalled .

Tobin’s called this number 110 times between Sept. 17 and Nov. 22, 2002. And as I pointed out earlier, it was this number Tobin called on the morning of the jamming, shortly after speaking with someone at the New Hampshire Republican State Committee.

So here’s the central question: Who were all these calls to the White House going to? Who was Tobin reporting to in the chain of command?

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