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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 09:37 PM
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Presidential aides eye Abramoff visits
Aides to President George W. Bush are trying to identify all photos that may exist of showing the president and lobbyist Jack Abramoff together.

Time magazine reported Sunday that administration officials, bracing for the worst, obtained from the Secret Service a list of all the times Abramoff entered the White House complex -- and were scrambling to determine the reason for each visit.

Abramoff attended Hanukkah and holiday events at the White House, said an aide who has seen the list. Press Secretary Scott McClellan said Abramoff might have attended large gatherings with Bush but added, The president does not know him, nor does the president recall ever meeting him.

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=213948&cat=World
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wellstone dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 09:40 PM
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1. Hmm, and what about the veep
The Pres doesn't know him, hard to believe. The VP doesn't know him, impossible to believe.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 09:43 PM
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2. Incinerators & Shredders Working Overtime ??
These clowns sure do love to 'make' history.

They can never win at that game.. the truth always rise to the light.
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 10:55 PM
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9. eggggsactly!
gotta get those memory disks and negatives too! if you never saw them, the event didn't exist! didn't you get the memo? lol
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 03:51 AM
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16. Operation: Rug Sweep?
Local Washington DC rug dealers and broom suppliers are reporting record profits. Sales of rugs and brooms to the White House have tripled since 2001.

A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonimity, said "We're running out of floor space for places to put the rugs. In some rooms we have them doubled stacked...."

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Tight_rope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 04:54 PM
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30. Exactly....This will turn out to be just like Chalabi...n/t
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 09:44 PM
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3. Jackie Boy who?
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 09:48 PM
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4. Touché!
Hey, Jack, welcome to the Ken Lay Museum of Forgotten Bush Cronies.

:rofl:
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 10:31 PM
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6. "... the Ken Lay Museum of Forgotten Bush Cronies"
perfect, just perfect!
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savemefromdumbya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 10:24 PM
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5. someone is bound to have saved a copy of that photo
The SS have a lot of work to do from these LARGE gatherings turning over everyone's homes to look for THAT photo?
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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 10:34 PM
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7. Somewhere, somehow, a photo, a meeting log, an e-mail is going
prove that Bush knew Abramoff and that he lied once again. I am sure that Cheney and his wife knew Abramoff and that most of the head evangelicals of the RW Christian coalition were working for him.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 10:52 PM
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8. Somewhere is a TV newsroom with video of GWB dismounting an Enron jet
I saw some of those videos back in '99 or early 2000. Corporate logo was clearly visible. Kenny Boy loaned a corporate plane which was used extensively by GWB prior to the Republican National Convention in the summer of 2000.

I'd like to see those news clips again.






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TheGunslinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 11:20 PM
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10. He used a lot more than just Enron's jet
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 11:41 PM
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11. Abramoff was part of his transition team after the 2000 election
Edited on Sun Jan-08-06 11:43 PM by MiniMe
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010501903.html

snip

This careful judge of what it means to be an "honorable public servant" had reason to prefer the Bush administration's taste in appointees. After the 2000 election, Abramoff was named to the Bush transition team for the Interior Department, which regulates the Indian casinos that paid Abramoff his inflated fees.

snip

I don't understand how he can try to deny knowing him. This has nothing to do with meeting at parties.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 12:48 AM
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14. Abramoff in "Bush Transition Team 2000" -- PRICELESS!
Edited on Mon Jan-09-06 01:00 AM by Bozita
Transitioning from a government that kinda worked to ...?
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HR_Pufnstuf Donating Member (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 06:18 AM
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19. Abramoff linked back to at least 1997.
"The records from Abramoff's firm, obtained by The Associated Press from the Marianas under an open records request, chronicle Abramoff's careful cultivation of relations with Bush's political team as far back as 1997.

In that year, Abramoff charged the Marianas for getting then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush to write a letter expressing support for the Pacific territory's school choice proposal, his billing records show.

"I hope you will keep my office informed on the progress of this initiative," Bush wrote in a July 18, 1997, letter praising the islands' school plan and copying in an Abramoff deputy.

White House spokeswoman Erin Healy said Thursday that Bush didn't consider Abramoff a friend. "They may have met on occasion, but the president does not know him," she said."

Full:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0506-02.htm
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txindy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 09:47 AM
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24. 1st 10 months after '00 election, Jack & WH logged nearly 200 contacts
I can't wait to feel the air moving from the furious spinning on this one! :rofl:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-06-abramoff-bush_x.htm
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 11:43 PM
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12. What a hypocrite..all that
religious stuff when he was screwing the world on the other hand.
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Rene Donating Member (758 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 12:44 AM
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13. It's time to dust off and read "The Octopus, Secret world of Bush and the
death of Danny Castalano". We're now seeing the 'Octopus' revealed that Danny Castalono was writing about when he was 'suicided' in a tub with multiple slash wounds on both wrists; a shoelace tightly around his neck and 2 plastic trash bags in the tub. His computer and all his book notes disappeared from the hotel room.
This is world wide corruption, drug smuggling, drug running, killings. There's even a Mohammed Atta/SunCruz casino boat angle to investigate. and official intervention/stopping in a Manilla bombing investigation to explore.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 11:08 AM
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27. And Kangas, and Hatfield, and Webb, and that wonderful artist whose name
I am ashamed to say I can't remember. He graphed all the bfee connections.
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appleannie1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 02:10 AM
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15. The amnesia
in DC is contagious these days.
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 04:55 AM
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17. What are these Stalinists going to do -- airbrush him out of the photos?
:eyes:

Hekate
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HR_Pufnstuf Donating Member (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 05:57 AM
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18. Pic: Jack and George!


PSYCHE!
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 08:17 AM
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21. Or...how'z about that one? (Not photoshopped)
Edited on Mon Jan-09-06 08:18 AM by robbedvoter
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 06:06 PM
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31. This photo is not photoshopped?????
Maybe you could give us some history on it because it is damning if a true photo...
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 07:46 AM
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20. Fire up the shredders . . . and get rid of the negatives. nt
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 08:25 AM
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22. Here is a perfect example of these in office Hypocrites.
White House spokeswoman Erin Healy said Thursday that Bush didn't consider Abramoff a friend. "They may have met on occasion, but the president does not know him," she said."

Secretary Scott McClellan said Abramoff might have attended large gatherings with Bush but added, The president does not know him, nor does the president recall ever meeting him.


Look at these two quotes and tell me someone isn't lying through their teeth.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 09:35 AM
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23. ipso facto: if they are frantically searching, then they KNOW there was a
meeting to be photographed.
If there was no meeting, there would be no search.
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Wise Doubter Donating Member (458 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 10:00 AM
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25. Abramoff attended Hanukkah and holiday events at the White House
"Holiday events " ???

Why do they hate Christmas ?!, and America sooo much ?!

:sarcasm:
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sofa king Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 10:02 AM
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26. Is that WH inquiry now open to FOIA?
Edited on Mon Jan-09-06 10:06 AM by sofa king
Abramoff didn't just meet with White House officials. He met personally with the President, and the White House has done everything it can to avoid disclosing the date of the meeting.

I think one of the meetings was sometime between September 5, 2001, when the 9/11 terrorists visited Abramoff's casino boat, and September 11, 2001.

(That's just a guess, by the way, but it would fit perfectly with everything else.)
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troubleinwinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 11:59 AM
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28. WH ADMITTED bush met with Abramoff!!!

ADMITTED it in MAY 2005

White House Admits President Met with Abramoff
May 6, 2005



WASHINGTON, DC – Amid new revelations about the extensive contacts between Jack Abramoff and the Bush administration, including at least one meeting with President Bush, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean reiterated his call for President Bush to return all the money that the scandal-plagued lobbyist raised for the President’s campaign fund.

Yesterday, a White House spokesperson acknowledged to the Associated Press that the President “had met on occasion” with Abramoff.

http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/05/white_house_adm.php
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greiner3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 04:45 PM
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29. Jack is like the vampire of old;
ONce he's invited into one's house, he has free reign thereafter.
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olddad56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-09-06 11:01 PM
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32. The President probably doesn't recall meeting his wife.
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