Wash Post: Abramoff Visits White House Twice. LIE!!!!!

How can they print this headline when visits we know about - such as those for pictures in the Oval Office aren't listed?

The White House AND the Post are insulting our intelligence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051001553.html

Josh Marshall talks about it here:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000611.php

Make, announce, type.

Nah- that would never happen they have too much integrity for that. :sarcasm:

It amazes me that after being conned so many times, that people on DU still take that paper seriously. You might as well watch Fox "news."

From Marshall:

"That means these records don't account for any of the meetings the White House has publicly confirmed: Hannukah receptions in 2001 and 2002, as well as the infamous May 9, 2001, "$25,000 Meeting," of which we have a picture.

In short, the records are a joke."

But what does that mean? Does the WH get away with it like they usually do, or do their records get seized?

there were many many more. Everyone keeps reporting that it was over 200 times. If the SS handed over a couple of dozen the scepticism wouldn't be as high as it is now with just two.

The hair splitting has a serious implication, though.

The WPo article refers not to the White House, but to the "White House complex", which also includes the separate, but still on White House grounds, Eisenhowever Exec. Office Building. It's probably significant that the reporter didn't say "White House"; presumably the reporter was saying "I don't know where on WH grounds the meeting was held, whether at the White House or someplace else on the WH grounds," and made the lack of knowledge obvious to everybody that is native in English.

The 5/9/01 (02?) reception with senators that produced a photograph with * was in the EEOB. There is a unified visitor entry system, but if you ask for "White House" you get White House, apparently. Precision is everything; the request, it seems, was imprecise. To be honest, I didn't realize the role of the EEOB until I looked into a few days ago. Whether this level of precision is standardly required, or just reflects the lack of good-will that is standard in court, I can't say.

The implication, if the number of reported visits to the White House, in sensu stricto, is true, bears on the "nearly routine */Abramoff-meeting" charge. Cheney has his office in the EEOB; the prez's high-level staff tends to be in the White House proper, with lower-level staff in the EEOB. If Abramoff met with '* or his staff' (which is widely, though misleadingly, truncated to 'meeting with *'), and he was only in the WH itself twice, it means either */high-ranking staff went to the EEOB to use a conference room, or Abramoff met with moderate to extreme low-level staff.

the WH.

...do y'all expect anything but a journalistic Lewinsky for Bush?