Pure Evil

Here’s the Bush administration in a nutshell: if there’s nothing of questionable contact with Abramoff, as the Bush administration states, then why are they unwilling to disclose what did occur?

Bush and cronies have laid bare every possible detail of communication—or have theoretically and most likely in actuality—usurped for their own uses the ability to do so—by the American public in violation of The Constitution, whether or not that data is relative to terrorism, yet the Bush administration balks at providing the American public access to the same degree of unfettered information about potential Bush connections to a self-admitted criminal lobbyist in the person of Jack Abramoff?

Please.

This is about as obvious as it gets. The Bush people are running out of smoke screen and when there is no possible means with which to obfuscate and spin to their advantage the rapidly widening public awareness of just how crooked this administration is, then what will the Bush and cronies do?

They didn’t balk at feeding us a load of crap and lies about WMD and Iraq in order to send our children in there to die while they were killing thousands of Iraqi citizens—all for private greed and apparently self-serving reasons.

The Bush people have not one bit of conscience among them.

Bush and his representatives are as purely evil as humankind can get—or, as stupid—and they need to be kept on an extremely short leash.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 12:00 AM

White House won't reveal details of Abramoff meetings with staff

By NEDRA PICKLER
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The White House is refusing to reveal details of lobbyist Jack Abramoff's visits with President Bush's staff.

Abramoff had "a few staff-level meetings" at the Bush White House, presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday. But he would not say with whom Abramoff met, which interests he was representing or how he got access to the White House.

Since Abramoff pleaded guilty two weeks ago to conspiracy, mail-fraud and tax-evasion charges in an influence-peddling scandal, McClellan has told reporters he was checking into Abramoff's meetings. "I'm making sure that I have a thorough report back to you on that," he said in his press briefing Jan. 5. "And I'll get that to you, hopefully very soon."

But McClellan said Tuesday that he wouldn't discuss the private staff-level meetings. "We are not going to engage in a fishing expedition," he said.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and three other Democratic senators wrote a letter to Bush on Tuesday asking for an accounting of Abramoff's personal contacts with Bush administration officials and acts that may have been undertaken at his request.

"The American people need to be assured that the White House is not for sale," they wrote.
McClellan had said Abramoff attended three Hanukkah receptions at the White House, but he corrected himself Tuesday to say there were only two, in 2001 and 2002.

McClellan said Bush does not know Abramoff personally, although it's possible the two met at the holiday receptions.

Abramoff was one of Bush's top fundraisers, having brought in at least $100,000 for the Bush-Cheney '04 re-election campaign and earning the honorary title "pioneer." The campaign took $6,000 of the contributions — which came directly from Abramoff, his wife and one of the Indian tribes he represented — and donated it to the American Heart Association.

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