Abramoff Allies Had Over 100 Bush WH Meetings Including Meetings With Bush

[kpete]

Papers show Bush allies' inside access By JOHN SOLOMON and SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON - Republican activists Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed landed more than 100 meetings inside the Bush White House, according to documents released Wednesday that provide the first official accounting of the access and influence the two presidential allies have enjoyed.

The White House released the Secret Service visit records to settle a lawsuit by the Democratic Party and an ethics watchdog group seeking visitors logs for the two GOP strategists and others who emerged as figures in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.

Earlier this month, the White House suggested to the judge in that lawsuit that such records need not be disclosed because the information was privileged and might reveal how Bush and his staff get private advice, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.

White House officials said Norquist, who runs the nonprofit Americans for Tax Reform, was cleared for 97 visits to the White House complex between 2001 and 2006, including a half-dozen with the president.

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060920/ap_on_go_pr_wh/abramoff_white_house

[Anakin Skywalker]

1. Let this come to LIGHT!

[Bluebear]

8. KICK!!!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. That's just the in person visits

Abramoff and Norquist had a direct line to Rove that was open all the time. But of course, Bush hardly even knew them.

[Quakerfriend]

4. Ain't that the truth!

[exlrrp]

9. But Abramoff was a Bush Pioneer!!

I know, I know, Bush didn't know any of them either, especially Ken Lay (rolls eyes here)
How come no one has ever done a study of the BUsh Pioneers and how well theyve done under the Bush administration?
DARN!! I keep forgetting (slaps forhead)--that would take a media that wasn't bought off.

[rpannier]

3. Huh??? Must be that new math at work...

Didn't scotty say that scrub may have met jackie a couple of times???
I guess now a couple = one hundred.

[senseandsensibility]

5. Dems should be screaming about this

because something tells me the corporate talking heads aren't.

[Poiuyt]

6. Remember when Richard Clark was trying to get a meeting to warn Bush

about Al Queda? I guess he should have just said he wanted to meet with Bush to discuss how bad gays are.

[Imagevision]

7. White House scrubs Abramoff - Bush photo's from the net sites

[Lars39]

10. K&R

[formercia]

11. Grover hand-delivers marching orders from the CNP

Can't be discussing such sensitive matters on the phone, can we?

[Land Shark]

12. and Norquist is the one who wants to drown the govt in the bathtub

the bathtub for one such crime scene was Lake Pontchartrain

[formercia]

13. Only Government that suits his agenda.

another follower of devil take all.

[cyberpj]

14. If anyone could ever chart the web of "charities" and other ogs they used,

it would boggle minds.

[Gabi Hayes]

15. remember this? how does it fit in with this latest news?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1086404#top

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politic...

WASHINGTON - A federal judge has ordered the Secret Service to release all records of disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff's visits to the White House - which could prove an embarrassment for President Bush.

The logs are expected to show who Abramoff met with at the White House as well as when and how long he was there.

Bush has said he didn't know Abramoff, who pleaded guilty in a massive influence-peddling scandal. But photos show the two posing for pictures at the White House. Abramoff also raised more than $100,000 for Bush's 2004 reelection campaign.

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link is dead

[JohnyCanuck]

16. Coincidence theorists could have a field day with this.

Hint: Atta wasn't playing blackjack.

One clue: Ringleader Mohamed Atta made a still-unexplained visit onboard one of Abramoff's casino boats less than a week before the attack.

A bigger clue: the man who owned the flight school favored by Atta and so many other terrorists had his Lear jet surrounded by DEA agents brandishing submachine guns on the runway of Orlando Executive Airport in July of 2000, the same month Atta began "training" at his flight school. They found 43 pounds of heroin onboard. For flight school owner Wally Hilliard, it was a 'blemish,' though not as yet one for which he has been asked to go to prison.

Several of the principals in the Boulis hit also have heroin trafficking backgrounds. What a surprise. Most of the world's heroin comes from Afghanistan, which used to be known as OsamaLand...

http://www.madcowprod.com/09302005.html

Also being discussed at Daily Kos here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/1/1955/10277