[TChad]

Allred hung up on me when it became obvious that I simply wasn't going to allow her to repeat her allegations without establishing first a theory of the law under which Whitman could be understood to have done anything wrong.

True enough, but Hugh never let Allred make her case, which annoyed me. So I looked up her version on her website. Here is Allred's statement:

http://www.gloriaallred.com/CM/Media/GA.stmnt.9.30.10.pdf

Even if Allred's version of events is accurate, she appears to have no evidence that Whitman actually saw the 2003 letter from the Social Security Administration. Whitman's only mistake here seems to have been saying "We never received that letter" ("we" meaning Whitman and her husband) when she should have said "I never received that letter." Whitman's husband apparently did get the letter. He wrote "Nicky, please check this" on it, and gave it to the maid, Nicky Santillan. It sounds as though the husband decided that the government had made a mistake involving Santillan's Social Security number, and turned the matter over to Santillan to straighten out. Allred's other allegations are very thin: Santillan said that she saw other letters from the Social Security Administration in the trash, and said that she told Whitman that she (Santillan) could not travel out of the country.

It just does not add up to convincing evidence that Whitman knew that Santillan was an illegal immigrant.

Audio of Hewitt's interview with Allred:

http://townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=784c07c5-7d35-4d8a-af59-5f7ed76dafdd

Transcript of that interview

http://www.hughhewitt.com/blog/g/c7fb98f4-0782-472e-95a3-76715b95cee1

[kevao]

Whitman's husband apparently did get the letter. He wrote "Nicky, please check this" on it, and gave it to the maid,

And if this is true, then it is further evidence that the Whitmans did not know she was illegal. Because, if they did know she was illegal, there would be no point at all in telling the maid to check into the matter.