Posted on 01/27/2006 9:59:42 AM PST by STARWISE
The investigation into Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist, took a provocative new turn when the Justice Department said that the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step down this coming week because he had been nominated to a judgeship by President George W. Bush.
The prosecutor, Noel Hillman, is chief of the department's Office of Public Integrity, and the move ends his involvement in an investigation that has reached into the administration as well as into the top ranks of the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill.
Democrats swiftly questioned the move's timing, and called for a special prosecutor as Bush faced a barrage of questions about why he would not make public "grip-and-grin" photographs of himself with Abramoff. The photographs apparently show Bush and Abramoff smiling at White House Hanukkah parties and Republican fund-raising receptions.
Bush's view, which he offered at a news conference Thursday morning that was peppered with questions about Abramoff, was that the photographs were so common as to be almost meaningless and that it was part of his job "to shake hands with people and smile."
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You could fry an egg on the head of a DUer after they read this story.
If we had special prosecitors every time the Democrats cried about Bush we would have about 40 of them by now.
They havent done anything but piss and moan since 2000
What's unique about the Abramoff story is that the administration hasn't tried to sweep this under the rug like Clinton's administration did time and time again.
LOL..
The left should tumble right on off the edge with this one. I love this administration.
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