FBI Set to Probe ACORN

ACORN has become the latest Republican obsession over the past couple of weeks, as was evinced by John McCain's attack of it during Wednesday night's debate only . It is no suprise that the GOP feels alarm towards any voter registtration group at a time where they are losing countless voters to the Democratic party, who has registered an unprecedented amount of voters.

The AP has sources that are 'leaking' that the FBI has begun an investigation into voter-registration fraud at ACORN only weeks before the election.
Fromer US Attorney David Iglesias, spoke to TPM, and said he is shocked by this AP article saying:

"Based on what I saw in 2004 and 2006, it's a scare tactic." In 2006, Iglesias was fired as U.S. attorney thanks partly to his reluctance to pursue voter-fraud cases as aggressively as DOJ wanted -- one of several U.S. attorneys fired for inappropriate political reasons, according to a recently released report by DOJ's Office of the Inspector General