http://www.bullmooseblog.com/2005/06/what-did-rove-know.htmlWhat Did Rove Know?The Moose would like to know what did Rove know and when did he know it?
Old Karl Rove must be a little nostalgic this week with the Deep Throat revelation. After all, he cut his teeth on College Republican dirty tricks during the Watergate era. Maybe, he will get his own chance at a White House scandal.
The Moose asks if the White House had a role in the Abramoff/Scanlon/Delay/Reed/Norquist Indian gaming scandal? That is the question addressed in a must read piece by Lou Dubose in the Texas Observer appropriately titled, The Pimping of the President. Dubose writes,
"Four months after he took the oath of office in 2001, President George W. Bush was the attraction, and the White House the venue, for a fundraiser organized by the alleged perpetrator of the largest billing fraud in the history of corporate lobbying. In May 2001, Jack Abramoff's lobbying client book was worth $4.1 million in annual billing for the Greenberg Traurig law firm. He was a friend of Bush advisor Karl Rove. He was a Bush "Pioneer" delivering at least $100,000 in bundled contributions to the 2000 campaign. He had just concluded his work on the Bush Transition Team as an advisor to the Department of the Interior. He had sent his personal assistant Susan Ralston to the White House to work as Rove's personal assistant. He was a close friend, advisor, and high-dollar fundraiser for the most powerful man in Congress, Tom DeLay. Abramoff was so closely tied to the Bush Administration that he could, and did, charge two of his clients $25,000 for a White House lunch date and a meeting with the President. "
The article also maintains that the the Commissar of the Right, Norquist, sold access to the Oval Office,
-snip-