Wampumgate - A School for Scandal

(links to investigative pieces that connect some dots)

http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/002103.php

Morning Report 11/28/05
A Country Under the Influence
Wampumgate: A school for scandal

Ward Harkavy

Just because Wampumgate is likely the biggest influence-peddling scandal in American history doesn't mean it will be investigated as thoroughly as it needs to be.

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More on that later, but consider that Wampumgate, revolving around ultimate inside lobbyist and Bush regime fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his boy wonder Mike Scanlon, reaches deep into the White House and the corridors of Congress. It stretches from Indian casinos in California to a school for Jewish snipers in Israel, with a stop at a D.C. yeshiva.

Rooted in the bilking of Indian tribes' casino money, Wampumgate threatens to rip the scabs off our long-festering racism wounds. As Jonathan D. Salant noted in a September story for Bloomberg News:

Abramoff and Scanlon took in more than $66 million in fees from 2001 to 2004 from tribal clients, according to Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs the Indian affairs panel. In one e-mail released by the Senate committee, Abramoff wrote to Scanlon, "I have to meet with the monkeys from the Choctaw tribal counsel."

"Ouch," Bush regime insider Grover Norquist, a "tax reformer" and pal of Karl Rove's since their days in the College Republicans, wrote in one of the hundreds of memorable e-mails that capture the stench. (The e-mails released so far by investigators are so plentiful that there's a Part 1 and Part 2.)

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I mean, is it possible Abramoff expected he'd be getting a tour of a primate exhibit?

No?

I didn't think so.

Well, I'm sure that when Michael Scanlon said that wackos get their news from Christian radio, he meant that in a nice way.

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