Report Says Rove Aide Accepted Abramoff Gifts

A top aide to presidential adviser Karl Rove passed along inside White House information to superlobbyist Jack Abramoff at a time when she was also accepting his tickets to nine sports and entertainment events, according to e-mails released yesterday in a bipartisan congressional report.

The e-mails, released by the House Government Reform Committee, show that Susan Ralston also on occasion discussed possible business ventures with Abramoff. Ralston had worked for Abramoff before joining Rove in the White House in 2001.

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When Ralston came through for Abramoff, it often was in relatively minor ways. On Oct. 21, 2001, Ralston e-mailed Abramoff that Rove had read an Abramoff memo about a political endorsement in an obscure race in the Mariana Islands. Ralston reported back to Abramoff that Rove had agreed, writing in an e-mail the next day: "You win :)"

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She told Abramoff and his associates that she passed messages and documents to Rove, but the committee report did not confirm that she had done so. On Feb. 21, 2001, Ralston e-mailed Abramoff lobbyist Todd A. Boulanger: "Thanks for breakfast. I showed KR the binder. . . . He gave the binder to Mehlman to read cover to cover and to be prepared." Ken Mehlman was then the White House political director.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901434.html

be prosecuted...and you know that Rove knew what was going on....is this another way to try and distance Rove from Abramoff?

to run a political campaign out of the White House.

This is Ralston and Rove on election night. Supposedly they had direct lines to many of the State DOE's around the country.

Clinton got burned for making fund raising calls on WH phones?

These days the GOP has a sign over the Oval Office labeled RNC Campaign Headquarters.

for supposedly making a few phones calls and going to a Buddist temple.

Strange game they play, isn't it?

But ever since Gingrich set up the K Street project, Pay to Play is the law of the land.

Illegality is ignored.

Follow the guns and you'll find neoCONS up to no good.

You know, it amazes me how little media coverage we are getting on the Abramoff business. This guy is a real life THUG a well connected thug but a THUG none the less. Anyone who spends a little time on the internet will find some relly troubling stories about this guy and his gambling interests and suspicious involvement in the murder of a casino boat owner in Florida. This is a guy who has made how many visits to the White House? Oh yeah, Dubya says he doesn't remember the guy.
Kenny who?:grr:

Glad to have you here :hi:

Babylon Sister posted this in GD. Bill Moyers PBS Special this Wednesday. Should be a good report...

Check it out and K&R it while you're at it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2283114

:kick:

This just gets betterer and betterer...

:)

Susan Ralston just resigned!

Abrahmhoff

So Rove is a traitor from Plame case and now corrupt bribed Bush flunke

Rove Sue Ralston Delay and others

its a Big circle of millions of dollars of corruption and stealing tax dollars...