Capitol Hill Blue: Another Bush official cozied up to Abramoff

[PhilipShore]

Capitol Hill Blue
Another Bush official cozied up to Abramoff
Jan 28, 2006

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8067.shtml

Interior Secretary Gale Norton met often with Jack Abramoff and posed for a photograph in just her second encounter with the scandal-scarred lobbyist, a face-to-face session in her office in 2002.

The photo, made public Friday evening by Interior officials in response to media requests, shows Norton, Abramoff, an unnamed man, Chief Phillip Martin of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and the tribe's outside counsel, C. Bryant Rogers.

Kreisher said the Interior Department posted the photo of Norton and Abramoff on its Web site at http://www.doi.gov/initiatives/foia.html because officials wanted to ensure it would be widely circulated.

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1. Jack Abramoff and Interior Secretary Gale Norton

Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton in one of more than 5,000 photos taken during her tenure. From left to right: Unidentified, Phillip Martin, chief Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Secretary Norton, C. Bryant Rogers, outside counsel for Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and Jack Abramoff. The photo was taken February 5, 2002.

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2. Could 'Unidentified' be the long lost Billy Joe McAllister?

Thought to have perished in a plunge from the Tallahatchie Bridge in the 60s?

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