Report: Abramoff team had 485 contacts with White House

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One might call this unlimited access.

Story Highlights• Report says Jack Abramoff billed for 485 White House contacts
• Convicted lobbyist billed for 10 contacts with Bush adviser Karl Rove
• Report says Abramoff had mixed results
• White House say Abramoff is an "admitted and proven liar"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/29/abramoff.wh.ap/index.html

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1. Oh golly gee, what a surprise!

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[DoYouEverWonder]

2. That's just the face to face meetings at the WH

How many times did Jack enter the WH without signing in or out? Just like Jeff Gannon did so often.

Then of course, there were the meetings off campus at events and fundraisers.

Not to mention the direct line to Karl Rove 24/7.

[KharmaTrain]

12. Many "Multi-Face" Meetings

Just cause he signed in to meet Mehlmann or some other lower-rank toady doesn't mean the bigger bosses didn't come strolling in...or that Jack probably could just ramble around the halls and "pop" in on friends.

Now can we get a special prosecutor to question everyone who went in or near the Oval Office, just like Starr did during his inquisition, since there appears to that a felon was running around committing all sorts of crimes.

And, of course, the corporate media is all over this story...NOT

[bigtree]

3. so where are the subpoenas?

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4. White House says this am that Abramoff exagerated his billings

What a fucking crock of shit.

This report was from a REPUBLICAN CONGRESS so you can bet they parsed all their words in this report.

I sadly know that this will result in ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

There will be NO subpoenas.

[berner59]

5. WH spokespeople are saying...

That you can't trust what he says...he often billed small encounters as lobbying... OH PLEASE!!! Talk about trust!! How can ANYONE believe what Bush & Co. say?? Their spinning is beyond transparent...

[acmejack]

6. They're already out on the street claiming it's "distorted"

and that it is being "manipulated for political advantage".

[Botany]

7. Don't forget Susan Ralston

She is right next to Rove on election night 2004



Susan Bonzon Ralston, Special Assistant to the President & Assistant to the Senior Advisor Karl Rove, was Jack Abramoff's executive assistant at Preston Gates and Ellis and later at the Greenberg Traurig law and lobbying firm, where "she served as the assistant director of governmental affairs. Before moving to the nation’s capital, she was an office administrator for M&J Wilkow, Ltd., a commercial real estate firm in Chicago, Illinois." <1><2>

"Ms. Ralston assists Mr. Rove in overseeing the strategic planning, political affairs, public liaison, and intergovernmental affairs efforts of the White House

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9. oh, the Corp Media has forgotten--cocktail parties to attend, ya know

[Botany]

11. Considering that top picture is from Newsweek .....

... and they would never distort the news. :rofl:

http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com /

What pisses me off is here we sit everyday goof - balls and can find the
truth but the MSM can't bullshit! They are so covering his ass.

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8. WHAT ABOUT ABRAMOFF BEING A BUSH PIONEER?

Sorry for the capitals but this is one of the most outrageous overlooks of the media--Abramoff was a Bush Pioneer!! For BOTH elections!!!
How the repubs manage to spin this off is incredible--theyre trying to pretned they don't know someone who raised millions of $$$ for them. And in as tightly controlled an accounting as they keep, they know who brought in every nickel--its how the booty is distributed.
Why hasn't there EVER been an investigation of the Bush Pioneers by the media? They sure spent gallons of ink writing about the Clinton sleepovers--Bush gets this as a matter of course. Anybody keep tally of how much booty the Pioneers get to walk away with?
Bush has always been able to plead "never knew him" about some of the most frequent white house visitors ever.
The Media dutifully stenographs the WH claim that only one of Abramoffs pals was hired but they don't say who it was. It was Safavian, ANOTHER Bush Pioneer--whose indictment made the Bush WH more corrupt than Clinton's who never had one aide indicted.
America needs to know who the BUsh Pioneers are--and what they got for their investment

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10. Who says money can't buy you love?

You knew he had to have practically live there.

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13. Which means he probably had 1485 contacts with the White House.

Being that the media is so honest and everything.

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