Posted on 02/13/2006 4:03:09 AM PST by Liz
The White House yesterday confirmed the authenticity of a published photo showing President Bush with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and one of his Indian-tribe clients.
The photo shows Bush shaking hands with Chairman Raul Garza of the Kickapoo Indian Tribe of Texas in the Old Executive Office Building, next door to the White House.
A bearded Abramoff can be seen in the background, as political guru Karl Rove looks on.
Garza provided the photo, which was taken by a White House photographer, and published in Time magazine and The New York Times.
"We now know that Mr. Abramoff attended this meeting," said White House spokesman Alvin Abney.
Garza has been indicted for allegedly embezzling more than $300,000 from his tribe.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Memo to Abramoff: No decent person would co-opt the President of the US and put him in jeopardy, as you did, buster. You don't bring suspected criminals to meet a president.....that is, unless you, yourself, have criminal intentions.
Pres Bush shaking hands with Chairman Raul Garza of the Kickapoo Indian Tribe of Texas in the Old Executive Office.
A bearded Abramoff can be seen in the background, as Karl Rove looks on (profile at left).
Someone said that the President said that he gets his picture taken with people he doesn't like, such as the press :-D
Pres Bush shaking hands with.......! Fill in the blank with
any of thousands.
where was the outcry when Bill Clinton shared White House time with drug and weapons smugglers?
At a news conference, GWB said he gets his pic taken with lots of people that he doesn't particularly associate with....."I get my picture taken with you, " he said sardonically, looking over the press assemblage.
....and pardoned most of them, as well.........
:-) Thank you! It's a great quote
Too bad they didn't have a soundtrack for this "incriminating" moment. Might have gone like this:
"Hello, how're ya, what was your name again? Nice to meet ya, coffee and donuts over there by the corner, have you met the other hundred-odd people here yet? ..well gotta kick this meeting off..thanks for coming."
"Saint Harry" sans halo.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of Jack Abramoff's ex-colleagues confirms he contacted Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid's office on behalf of the influential lobbyist but says he does not believe Abramoff's billing records accurately reflect the extent of his work. Ronald Platt, a lobbyist who worked with Abramoff at the Greenberg Traurig firm between 2001 and 2004, said he contacted Reid's office in 2001, as the billing records show, about the timing of minimum wage legislation affecting one of Abramoff's clients, the Northern Mariana Islands. "When Abramoff first arrived at Greenberg Traurig, I did a new colleague a favor by simply asking Reid staffers about when the minimum wage legislation affecting the Mariana Islands would be voted upon by the Senate. I communicated this to Abramoff," Platt said in a statement e-mailed Friday evening to The Associated Press. The AP reported on Thursday that lobbying firm billing records obtained under public records law from the Marianas showed that Abramoff billed the islands for 21 contacts in 2001 with Reid's office. (excerpt)
SOURCE: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ABRAMOFF_REID?SITE=NJASB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
I have a much better picture of me and Dubya.
Abramoff got ripped off I think...
The Prez shakes hands with TED KENNEDY (Alleged Manslaughter)BILL CLINTON (ALLEGED RAPIST) now this guy, (Alleged Embezzler)
SFW!
ROTFL----new tribe "Kick-back-poo."
I can see the casino now......smells to high heaven.
Of course, the presumed soundtrack according to the nutcase 'Rats would go like this:
"Hello Raul Garza. Glad you made bail. Don't worry, I'll pardon you if convicted. Did you remember the brown paper bag? Put it under the table when nobody's watching."
and leave us not forget that riadi fellow.
O-o-o-o-o, that's gonna smart.
RE photo: Who cares? "Where's Jack" must be the new MSM game. Almost need a magnifying glass to see him.
"Hey, George, wanna go for a ride over the Potomac Bridge?"
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