Abramoff is the one peddling the photos of him with *!!!!

[Roland99]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Abramoff_shopped_Bush_photos_Newsweek_reporter_0124.html

He's turned on *!!!

:woohoo:

[Cha]

1. Surprised to see the usual

corporate media working on This Story! :wow:

[Nickster]

2. Not so sure he's turned. Sounds like he's making a case for why the BFEE

might not want to feed him to the dogs. Sounds like insurance to me.

[hvn_nbr_2]

13. Lobbying (threatening, blackmailing?) for a pardon? n/t

[Nickster]

15. That's the way I'm reading it. n/t

[CottonBear]

3. I would love to be a fly on the wall at the White House.

:popcorn:
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Abramoff_shopped_Bush_photos_Newsweek_reporter_0124.html

From Thinkprogress -- Excerpted because site wasn't coming up. Video at link.

Over the weekend, Time magazine and the Washingtonian both reported on five photos of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, but neither publication revealed its source.

Yesterday, ThinkProgress laid out the case for why the source for the photos was likely Abramoff himself. Last night, our hunch was confirmed.

Appearing on MSNBC, Newsweek correspondent Michael Isikoff reported that it was indeed Abramoff who floated the photographs to Washingtonian.

ISIKOFF: As a general rule, if you’re the president … you don’t like pictures out there of you with convicted felons. It sounds like … there’s at least one picture of him with at least one convicted felon and another indicted, so it’s probably not a picture the White House is eager to have out there. The other interesting aspect of this is, while the White House hasn’t put these out, Jack Abramoff has clearly shown them to people. I don’t know anything about Time sources, but I do know that he showed them to Washingtonian magazine, which suggests he may be playing a little bit of a game here. He has, of course, pled guilty already to the Justice Department. But it does raise a question in my mind at least as to whether Abramoff is maybe sort of sending some sort of signal out here: “Hey, I’ve got this stuff.” Maybe he wants something from somebody at the White House, or he wants someone at the White House not to do something, and just sort of subtly playing with people here.

[napi21]

8. That's what happens when you piss off a criminal.

I suspect something like this when it was reported that Abramoff was copping a plea. Hmmm. I wonder what else he's going to surprise us with?

[CottonBear]

9. It could be a Rove dirty trick.. You know, photshopped pictures. n/t

[napi21]

10. Yes, I could be, but for some reason, I doubt it.

Jack would be the most likely person to have pics like that, and he would have kept them!

Remember how we heard the WH was searching all over the place to make sure ALL POSSIBLE PIC of the two of them were removed from the public? Well, that means thatpics MUST have existed, huh?

Cohorts in crime are very vindictive when they turn on each other!

[Warpy]

4. Anybody who buys those photos had better examine

the pixel density very, very carefully. It would be just like Rove to use Abramoff to peddle a bunch of Photoshopped fakes so he could later do a "gotcha!" on the librulmedia.

[frylock]

5. let the ratf**king begin!!

[spuddonna]

6. These phtotos are Jack's life insurance policy now...

I wonder what photos he's got stashed away to release if he suddenly 'disappears'? :shrug:

[KittyWampus]

7. he needs the $ for lawyers

[quaoar]

11. So....

When is Abramoff's book coming out?

[IndyOp]

12. I almost had a heart-attack. I thought you meant "photoshopped"

...as in Abramoff faked the pics and there weren't any legitimate photos.

:dunce:

[Demeter]

14. It's The Ones In The Hot Tub That Bother the White House

not the Hannukah ones! (teehee)

[Roland99]

16. he he