January 15, 2004

ABC Smear Piece

Andrew Sullivan links to an article at ABC News that he calls a vile little smear story about Howard Dean.

A state trooper named Dennis Madore is apparently a domestic abuse case. He was also in charge of Howard Dean’s security.

I read the entire piece very carefully. And I can’t for the life of me find any evidence that Dean did a single thing wrong.

Just below the headline, in typical Watergate fashion:

What Did He Know About Abuse Allegations; When Did He Know It?
According the article, Dean didn’t know anything. It’s guilt by association.

Vile little smear piece indeed.

Posted by Michael J. Totten at January 15, 2004 12:11 AM
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I've read the article. I'm certainly willing to give Dean the benefit of the doubt when he denies having heard any allegations of abuse before he signed the affidavit that was filed in the trooper's divorce case.

I also stress that I haven't seen the affidavit. It's described this way in the ABC piece:

On May 23, 1997, Dean inserted himself in the case, filing a three-page affidavit at White's request for use in a custody hearing, in which he described Madore as "a firm but gentle disciplinarian" and a "wonderful parent."

Obviously I'm curious about what was in the remainder of the three pages, and I'm only guessing at its overall contents. But my strong hunch, as a practicing trial lawyer, is that it was what we would call an "oath-helper affidavit."

Despite the fact that this trooper "headed Dean's security detail for nine years," there's no reason to think that they were close personal friends or that they had any other type of relationship that would give then-Gov. Dean a very strong basis for personal knowledge. I doubt, for instance, that the affidavit says, "I've eaten dinner with Trooper Madore and his wife an average of three times a week at their home, slept frequently on their couch, and become intimately acquainted with the most personal details of their marital relationship based on what I've seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears." Something like that would actually have considerable probative value in tending to disprove allegations of spousal abuse; that's almost certainly not what Dean's affidavit was being offered to do.

Instead, it was probably being offered on the premise that Howard Dean's (mostly uninformed) opinion about his subordinate's character is especially valuable because, after all, lookit — Howard Dean's the governor! Or perhaps it was being offered to convey a veiled and implicit message to the trial judge: "Hey, do you know who you're dealing with here? The guy who fills vacancies on the higher court benches has a dog in this fight, and we want you to keep that in mind."

Either way, I'd be absolutely livid if the governor of my state filed such an affidavit in a case I was handling. I absolutely agree with this quote from the wife's attorney, Jerry Diamond:

It was a highly unusual move. "I'm sure that there are very few cases on record where a governor might have done that," he told ABCNEWS.

So my conclusion is not that Gov. Dean supports wife-beaters, or doesn't care about spousal abuse. My conclusion is that this was an instance of very bad judgment when he was governor because he willingly let someone use his name and position to try to exert improper influence in a pending family-law case. He shoulda known better.

However, I wonder if this incident, or others like it, were perhaps what oversensitized Dean into his "Dukakis-asked-about-Kitty's-rape" moment recently when he seemed reluctant to make a public statement about whether Osama bin Ladin deserves the death penalty.

Posted by: Beldar at January 15, 2004 01:49 AM

I don't know how all this works; is it even vaguely usual for bosses to file these kinds of character supporting statements?

Posted by: Kimmitt at January 15, 2004 04:14 AM

Kimmitt, for once actually asks a relevant question.

Smear piece it might be, but in this day and age, many employers end up knowing lots about their employees private lives--If there was any truth to the allegations, there a very good chance that the governor had a good idea what was going on.

Posted by: eric at January 15, 2004 05:39 AM

I'm no Dean fan, but this just seems to be an instance of the press trying to hang something on a candidate. I'll defer to Beldar on the propriety of a sitting governor filing such an affidavit, but if this is the best the press can do then Dean is pretty clean.
Here's one that makes Dr. Dean look like a real criminal. It appears to be a hoax document, but a well done one. http://imao.us/img/dean_crime.gif

Posted by: Jamie at January 15, 2004 07:28 AM

See Atrios on this.

Posted by: praktike at January 15, 2004 08:09 AM

praktike,

link?

Posted by: Michael J. Totten at January 15, 2004 09:20 AM

I stumbled on this one late last night and had the same basic reaction. "It looks like Dean was a little too trusting of the guy whose job it was to take a bullet for him for nine years. If I had been otherwise inclined to vote for Dean, this wouldn't change my mind."

Posted by: James Joyner at January 15, 2004 10:11 AM

Dean is an airhead, but he was smeared. Mr.Madore was probably smeared. DV complaints are a dime a dozen, and often convenient. Without a trial, they are worthless. His dismissal from the police dept. could as easily have been political vis a vis gender feminist heat and propaganda. Wake up, men. The Witches hunt you.

Posted by: Joe Peden at January 15, 2004 10:32 AM

Total Smear. Anyone want to take bets on whether or not it was a Clark or Kerry "fan?"

Posted by: FH at January 15, 2004 11:07 AM

Atrios' comments are here and here, the second being an attack on one of the ABC News reporters. The NY Post has an article that basically just reports what ABC reported. And I've expanded on my own opinions expressed above on my own bandwidth.

Posted by: Beldar at January 15, 2004 11:19 AM

What's interesting is that the mainstream press is so openly smearing the Dem front-runner. He's clearly not their consensus choice anymore.

And Dean himself's not a good enough populist that he can wow the crowds without them. Only question now is whether or not his existing lead is big enough for him to back into a victory in spite of this. In any event, his honeymoon phase is sure over.

Posted by: ras at January 16, 2004 12:39 AM

Well, Fox is smearing Dean because it's Fox, and the rest of the press is smearing Dean because they're too lazy to do anything but throw up RNC oppo research -- plus, doing so gets them in good with Rove, who then grants them the "access" they need to put out thoroughly spun stories on the Bush Administration . . . everybody wins!

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