Capitol Hill Blue: White House aides told to hide photos of... Abramoff

[PhilipShore]

Capitol Hill Blue
White House aides told to hide photos of Bush with Abramoff
By Staff and Wire Reports
Jan 24, 2006

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8041.shtml

President Bush is often referred to as the "photo op" President but Whtie House aides now scramble to hide photos that show Bush with scandal-ridden GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

At least a half-dozen White House officials have been told about pictures of President Bush and Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff taken since 2001 but are under orders to not release them or discuss details of the photos while claiming they are not relevant.

"Public photographs could damage Bush's efforts to insulate himself from a scandal that has scorched numerous other Republicans," the Post reports. "A vivid image of Bush shaking hands and smiling with Abramoff would provide fuel for news coverage and commentary, even if such "grip-and-grin" shots are commonplace for most politicians."

But Jennifer Palmieri, a former Clinton communications aide, told the Post, "If TV is showing a picture of George Bush and Jack Abramoff, it immediately brings the poster boy for abuse into the Oval Office."

[Hissyspit]

1. True?

Certainly what you would expect them to do. I don't think Blue even needs to check their facts on this one, of course that's what they're doing!

[Erika]

2. Jack was a W $100,000 pioneer(donor) & Rove's close friend

Dirty, dirty, dirty and even Capitol Hill Blue is writing about it.

[Donkeykick]

3. Not To Worry...

those pictures will show up soon!:hide: :)

[PhilipShore]

4. The Watergate Scandal 1972: The Great Cover-Up: Extract 1

The Watergate Scandal-- The Great Cover-Up: Extract 1
by Barry Sussman

http://www.watergate.info/sussman/extract1.shtml

I began working on the Watergate story on June 17, 1972, only hours after the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. I was city editor of The Washington Post and had seen my share of crime stories. But from the start, I had never seen one as tantalizing as this. The five men captured wore business suits and surgical gloves, had thirteen brand-new hundred-dollar bills in their pockets, and carried sophisticated camera and electronic bugging equipment and a single walkie- talkie. Though they made no telephone calls after their arrests, two lawyers appeared at police headquarters to represent them.

The following day it was revealed that one of the five worked for Richard Nixon's re-election committee. The day after that the mystery deepened when we at the Post learned and reported that the name and telephone number of a White House operative, E. Howard Hunt, Jr., formerly of the CIA, was listed in two address books belonging to the arrested men, and that a check for $6.36 from Hunt to a local country club had been left behind in one of their hotel rooms at the Watergate.

From those early moments on, I was part of a team that viewed from close-in the uncovering of what many have called the worst scandal in the nation's history. Week by week, the Watergate disclosures led nearer to Nixon, engulfing his closest associates. On the first day in July, 1972, John N. Mitchell, who as attorney general had been the chief symbol of law and order in Nixon's administration, resigned as chairman of the re-election committee because of the scandal. A month before the presidential election, the Post reported that the Watergate bugging was only one incident in a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage waged against the Democrats by the Nixon forces.

...By spring of the following year, the Watergate coverup had collapsed, largely through pressure exerted by an aggressive jurist, John Sirica, and stunning, inexplicable disclosures made by the temporary head of the FBI, L. Patrick Gray III, who destroyed his own career and reputation in the process. In April, 1973, Nixon dismissed his chief aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, his counsel, John Dean, and Mitchell's replacement as attorney general, Richard Kleindienst.



Cover-up
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover-up

When a scandal breaks, the discovery of an attempt to cover up the evidence of wrongdoing is often regarded as even more scandalous than the original deeds.