[hipaatwo]

Over here.

[Miss Marple]

Another "fake but accurate" moment.

[RandallFlagg]

My new term for them seems to get clearer by the week these days:

ENEMEDIA

[Blue Scourge]

Dan..Dan Rather is that you...?

[blake6900]

Despite a flat denial from the Department of Justice, federal law enforcement sources tonight said ABC News accurately reported that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is "in the mix" in the FBI investigation of corruption in Congress.

Who? Boss Hogg?! Deputy Dawg?! Dog the Bounty Hunter? If ABC can't name its' sources why are we to believe there are any?

[tobyhill]

Is ABC admitting that they like to falsely imply guilt by playing with the wording using "in the mix"?

[neodad]

Sources would not divulge details of the Abramoff’s information

Kinkos not open?

[Dog Gone]

ABC draws the line in the sand.

Let's see who's right.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I'll have to wait on this until I hear something from a more reliable and credible news source. ABC is just a tentacle of the DNC.

[Savage Land]

Is Hastert "in the mix" because he supposedly defended Jefferson?

Do the dems think this will justify Jefferson or deflect from any supposed guilt?

[CWOJackson]

Mean while in Texas, Tom DeLay was asked to comment on the Speakers problems.

"Haahaahaahaahaaa."

[LdSentinal]

"Whether they like it or not, members of Congress, including Hastert, are under investigation," one federal official said tonight."

So, according to ABC, all 535 members of Congress are under investigation and not just Hastert?

Long adrift, ABC News now sinks

[RoseofTexas]

That's what Hastert gets for sticking his nose where it didn't belong! Jefferson got caught red handed and Hastert blamed the CIA...IDIOT! The pubs are truly screwed up at the Cap!!

[tobyhill]

Revoke their press credentials.

[Paraclete]

The knives are out for Hastert. Immigration reform?

[Txsleuth]

PING

[piasa]

Here are some things squirming around in the "Abramoff mix" :

There is significance to the Abramoff and Janus-Merritt references there: a firm called Janus Partners/Partner is listed in Federal Election Commission forms (for contributors to Congressman Christopher Cannon) as associated with Mark J. Robertson, president of Williams Mullen Strategies, a lobbying firm that has worked for both COTECNA (of Oil-for-Food fame) and Gabon.

Robertson previously had arranged a US visit for Gabonese President Omar Bongo at the same time Bongo hired as lobbyists Pierre Salinger and Jacqueline Wilson (then in the process of divorcing Joseph [* Piasa notes: Joseph Wilson, now the hubbie of CIA starlet Valerie Plame Wilson of Iraq-Niger yellowcake fame]--recently back from organizing Clinton's trip to Africa--but curiously listed in records as having a phone number at the $735,000 house Joseph and Valerie Plame purchased at that time, while Joseph was living separately in Valerie's apartment; over the next four years, Jacqueline would receive at least $712,000 from Gabon for her lobbying services).

Robertson has more recently worked with USAID and Iraq's Minister of Infrastructure and Water to establish their respective roles in the Iraq Reconstruction efforts.

(As an aside of possible interest, Abramoff, Robertson, and Janus-Merritt Strategies have all contributed to Congressman Cannon, on whose staff David Safavian has worked. Another contributor to Cannon was Coastal Corp., the company of Oil-for-Food figure Oscar Wyatt.)

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[Michael.SF.]

the FBI investigation of corruption in Congress.

If the FBI is investigating corruption in Congress, aren't all members of Congress then "in the mix"?

[denydenydeny]

No way can they move against Hastert without also indicting Harry Reid.

[soloNYer]

I can't tell anymore if a story is by the mainstream media or truthout.org.

They've all become as rabid as their "sources."