Ex-White House Aide Charged in Corruption Case

The New York Times ^ | September 20, 2005 | PHILIP SHENON and ANNE E. KORNBLUT

[enots]

More info on Abramoff.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jack_Abramoff#Greenberg_Traurig_Biography

[Alissa]

If an agency does not fall under the legislature or judiciary then it's in the executive branch of gov't. The entire Dept of Defense could be part of the White House Staff. That's what is misleading.

[laredo44]

Mr. Abramoff, once among the most powerful and best-paid lobbyists in Washington and a close friend of Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader.

So, of all the people Abramoff could be linked to, the Times figured it was MOST important to link him to DeLay.

Yet more evidence of the one-way thinking of the Times' staff.

[notigar]

Who is bigger than delay?

[laredo44]

Who is bigger than delay?

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy...the list goes on. The thing is that, had Abramoff been directly linked to Hillary, on her staff, top adviser, whatever, the Times would have linked him to W by some six degrees of separation algorithm before linking him to Clinton. Their thinking only goes one way: attack Republicans.

[notigar]

Did any of them go on the golf trip to scotland?

[Pelham]

Wasn't Safavian an associate of Grover Norquist's? Members of the same lobbyist firm?