Reid Wonders If Abramoff U.S. Attorney Is A 'Bushie'

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Reid Wonders If Abramoff U.S. Attorney Is A 'Bushie'

March 22, 2007

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports: At an off-camera but on the record briefing, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., contended the U.S. Attorneys controversy threatens to politicize the people who "make federal cases."

"Today we hear the U.S. Attorney in Florida is going to try and reduce Abramoff's sentence," Reid proclaimed, referring to the disgraced former lobbyist sentenced to six years in federal prison and has pleaded guilty to three other charges.

"Is he a Bushie," the Democratic Majority Leader rhetorically asked reporters gathered in his Capitol Hill office.

(Incidentally, ABC News' Jason Ryan adds that Bryan Sierra, spokesman for the Justice Department's Criminal Division replied regarding a potential Abramoff sentence reduction, "The government has recommended that Abramoff’s sentence be reduced based on the cooperation to date, but we asked the Court to reserve entering the reduction until Abramoff’s cooperation is complete so that the Court can evaluate all of the cooperation. Only the court can reduce a sentence -- the government can only recommend a reduction in a sentence based on substantial cooperation.")

This situation, Reid argued, is why White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove must be put under oath in the U.S. attorneys flap.

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