WaPo: Scandal Visits the White House

[smartvoter]

(saw this in LBN but not here yet, so posted...)

Scandal Visits the White House

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonopost.com
Tuesday, September 20, 2005; 12:24 PM

The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal reached into the White House yesterday, picking off President Bush's top procurement official -- who just barely had time to resign before being arrested.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/09/20/BL2005092000753.html

[Maccagirl]

1. Was he frog-marched out of the WH?

Please say yeeeess.

[acmavm]

2. Jackass acts like it's the first time scandal has hit the bush** admin.

Who's he think he's fooling?????????????

[Stephanie]

10. Froomkin is one of the best guys at WaPo

I don't know if he writes the headlines, but he has been great at breaking stories there. I really appreciate him. Don't judge him by one headline.

[submerged99]

17. reporters dont usually write the headlines

One of my friends was the subject of a favorable article with a negative headline. He made an inquiry with the reporter and the editor and he found out that in his case, and in general, reporters usually don't have any say in what the headline will be.

[autorank]

3. Hey smartvoter...great minds think alike...

And you and I do also. I saw this and thought, wow, they must be ready to lower the boom. Abramoff has some very funky ties to foreign elements that might not like us so much. This is potentially explosive. Frompkin is the .com Post. He raises all the right issues and the print version (online and paper) either picks it up or ignores it.

Hopefully, this is a harbinger.

Yeah right, it's about golf (that's CoinGate started in OH):

"The complaint, filed by the FBI, alleges that David H. Safavian, 38, a White House procurement official involved until last week in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, made repeated false statements to government officials and investigators about a golf trip with Abramoff to Scotland in 2002."

[smartvoter]

5. 100% agreement. Now, if we can figure out how to tie all this corruption

to the voting problems that can't seem to generate a second glance -- at least enough to create sufficient pressure to get protections in place, all this will actually MEAN something in terms of accountability...

[marions ghost]

14. you mean you think

there is something resembling a justice system that addresses white collar crime in theis country? I would love to think it is emerging.

[smartvoter]

15. "Hope" is a better word. What worries me is all the election

anomalies and there have been no safeguards put in place.

[AllyCat]

4. Lets hope this is the beautiful beginning of a rash of arrests at

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Wonder if the rest of the somnolent press will pick up this story or if they will sweep it under the rug to help their boy King George?

[wallwriter]

6. Scandal doesn't *visit* the White House, it *infests* it.

[AllyCat]

7. And is indeed, an integral part of remaining there. nt

[Proud2BAmurkin]

8. "VISITS"? Washington Post = fuckin tools.

tools

[Arkansas Granny]

9. But only on a Gannon-style day pass.

[RandomKoolzip]

11. Check out the bias in the language used:

When Clinton was president, the MSM used phrases like "Scandal-plagued," "Scandal-ridden," "Scandalous" in connection to Whitewater (which wasn't a scandal) or the infamous blowjob.

When Bush is in office, "scandal" visits the White House. As in: "Scandal is only stopping by."

[liveoaktx]

12. Look at his wife's role of OVERSIGHT-.... crooked

"His wife, Jennifer Safavian, is chief counsel for oversight and investigations on the House Government Reform Committee, which is responsible for overseeing government procurement and is, among other things, expected to conduct the Congressional investigation into missteps after Hurricane Katrina."

[gulliver]

13. Dems should be raising the rafters on this one.

Bush's top procurement official arrested! Now let's start seeing more stories about who hired him, whether there were phone records tying him to DeLay, etc.

Imagine if this had happened under Clinton. He would have been tarred and feathered.

[blm]

16. Another WEB EXCLUSIVE, meaning the PAPER AIN'T PRINITING IT!

Fucking Post Bushwhores.

[smartvoter]

18. They did run this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901859.html