Safavian conviction coverage doesn't mention he worked at THE WHITE HOUSE!

WP, Froomkin: Where Did Safavian Work Again?
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, June 21, 2006; 11:10 AM

You wouldn't know it from the coverage of David H. Safavian's conviction yesterday for lying and obstructing justice, but some of his criminal activity actually took place while he was working at the White House.

Safavian managed to avoid being frog-marched out of the White House by resigning three days before his arrest....

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Oddly, Safavian's White House connection is barely mentioned in most of the coverage today, even though one of the pieces of evidence introduced against him was actually a note he wrote out on White House stationery.

Astonishingly, in fact, the words "White House" are missing entirely from at least two widely-published stories: The Associated Press article by Pete Yost and the Knight Ridder Newspapers article by Marisa Taylor .

By contrast, Jeffrey H. Birnbaum writes in The Washington Post: "A federal jury found former White House aide David H. Safavian guilty yesterday of lying and obstructing justice, making him the highest-ranking government official to be convicted in the spreading scandal involving disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff."...

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