Another flip-flop from king george

[BBond]

First Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request for White House visitor logs. Then JW had to file suit to force king george to release those visitor logs that will show just how often Jack Abramoff met with king george and his staff. Now, after being told the logs would be released per the FOIA they filed, mclellan is backpedalling for king george again.

Do these people have no shame? What are they hiding?

THE TRUTH.

Abramoff was so close to bush and rove they'd have to have separate the three like Siamese triplets.

Group sues to get White House visitor logs

MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - A public-interest group has sued the Secret Service for access to White House visitor logs that the group says would show how often lobbyist Jack Abramoff met with President Bush and his staff.

Judicial Watch filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington under the federal Freedom of Information Act, claiming that the Secret Service failed to meet a Feb. 21 deadline for releasing the records or indicating how much more time it would need.

Secret Service spokesman Tom Mazur said Tuesday that the agency was unaware of the lawsuit. He had no other comment.

Abramoff pleaded guilty in January to federal charges stemming from his lobbying practices and pledged to cooperate with investigators.

The White House has refused to say how many times Abramoff, who raised $100,000 for Bush's re-election, has been to see the president or his aides. Bush's spokesman has said Abramoff was admitted to the White House complex for "a few staff-level meetings" and Hanukkah receptions in 2001 and 2002.

The president has said he does not know Abramoff personally.

The White House logs would answer a basic question about the extent of Abramoff's ties to the White House, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said. The records "may show 30 visits by Jack Abramoff to the White House, or they may show three visits."

"The point is we need to get all of the facts on the table about this admitted felon's contacts with White House officials," Finton said. The lawsuit was filed last week.

One photograph has been made public, its authenticity acknowledged by the White House, that shows Bush and Abramoff. In the 2001 photo, Bush is shaking hands with the leader of an Indian tribe that was an Abramoff client. The lobbyist is in the background.

In an e-mail Abramoff sent to a magazine editor, he said he had brief conversations with Bush almost a dozen times and the president knew him well enough to make joking references to Abramoff's family.

Lobbying records obtained by the AP show his lobbying team met nearly 200 times with administration officials during the first 10 months of Bush's presidency on behalf of one of his clients, the Northern Mariana Islands.

The contacts between Abramoff's team and the administration included meetings with Attorney General John Ashcroft and policy advisers to Vice President Dick Cheney, the AP reported last year.

Three former Abramoff associates also have told The Associated Press that the lobbyist frequently told them he had strong ties to the White House through presidential confidant Karl Rove.

Rove has described Abramoff as a "casual acquaintance" since Bush took office in 2001, White House spokeswoman Erin Healy has said.

Followed by this nonsense...

White House Cautions on Abramoff Logs

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 2, 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Secret Service's records documenting convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contacts with Bush administration officials may not reveal all such meetings, the White House said Tuesday.

The Secret Service has agreed to turn over White House visitor logs showing when Abramoff met with administration officials -- and with whom. But presidential spokesman Scott McClellan cautioned reporters from viewing the release as all-inclusive.

''I don't know exactly what they'll be providing, but they only have certain records and so I just wouldn't view it as a complete historical record,'' McClellan said.

Abramoff, who represented Indian tribes in their dealings with Washington politicians and raised at least $100,000 for Bush's re-election campaign, was once one of the city's most successful lobbyists.

When a photo of Bush with Abramoff surfaced earlier this year, the president said he has his picture taken with ''a lot of people.'' In the 2001 photo, Bush is shaking hands with a leader of an Indian tribe. Abramoff is in the background.

The president has said that he does not know Abramoff personally, but Abramoff told the Washingtonian magazine that he had met with Bush nearly a dozen times and that the president knew him well enough to joke with him.

McClellan has said that Abramoff attended Hanukkah receptions at the White House in 2001 and 2002, and some additional staff-level meetings. ''But I said I couldn't rule out that there might be other large events that may have taken place that he attended, but that's what I know and that still stands,'' McClellan said.

Abramoff pleaded guilty in January in Washington to federal charges stemming from an investigation into his ties with members of Congress and the Bush administration. He also pleaded guilty to fraud charges in Miami concerning a multimillion-dollar purchase of SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet in 2000.

If the logs aren't "a complete historical record" someone needs to investigate the reason why because SOMEONE has tampered with the logs, if mclellan's ridiculous statement is actually true.

What is king george hiding this time?

Little wonder king george runs the most secretive administration in U.S. history, that is, unless he's the one ordering leaks to advance his criminal agenda.

 

[Lemon law]

Going to be interesting--very interesting--may go down in history as Mc Clellan' last official lie as press secretary.And also go down in history as his sucessors first official snow job.

 

[strummer]

Originally posted by: Lemon law
Going to be interesting--very interesting--may go down in history as Mc Clellan' last official lie as press secretary.And also go down in history as his sucessors first official snow job.

Nothing surprising here. They feel they are above the law. Signing statements, ignoring judges orders, making up reasons to go to war, outing a CIA agent, illegally spying on Amercians, etc., etc. etc., BushCo just does what whatever the h3ll it wants.

Really, with regards to the signing statements, we might as well just send home Congress for good. Bush doesn't feel obligated to follow the rule of law that they promulgate anyway. Bush is sh1tting on the Constitution like it is toilet paper.

 

[Jeff7]

That must be cool when you only have to comply with the law when you feel like it.

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
That must be cool when you only have to comply with the law when you feel like it.

This is the story of george w. bush's life. Near limitless opportunity with little sense of responsibility and absolutely no concept of accountability.

Privilege and waste, inextricably locked as in the dance of binary stars.

These are the defining characteristics of king george and now our nation.