AP's 6 Degrees of Abramoff - Reid separation interactive smear

[guruoo]

It's a 6M flash interactive. I don't recall AP ever creating anything like this.
AP has put together numerous war interactives, but I don't recall any of them
being nearly this large in size.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/wdc/reid/index.html

If it fails to load, or redirects you to
another site, or page...
go here
to get the cookie:
http://theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
Then come back here and try it again:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/wdc/reid/index.html

Or, try this direct link to the flash file:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/wdc/reid/reid.swf

[MADem]

1. Your link redirects to the AP home page, not the flash

But here's something interesting about this whole business:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three members of Congress have been linked to efforts by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former General Services Administration official to secure leases of government property for Abramoff's clients, according to court filings by federal prosecutors on Friday.

....Two of the elected officials referred to in Friday's filings have been identified in published reports as Reps. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, and Don Young, R-Alaska. According to Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, the two representatives wrote to the GSA in September 2002, urging the agency to give preferential treatment to groups such as Indian tribes when evaluating development proposals for the Old Post Office.

...Friday's filings by prosecutors refer to a third member of Congress, Rep. Shelly Moore Capito, R-W.Va. Her name appears in e-mails that suggest she was trying to help Abramoff secure a GSA lease for land in Silver Spring for a religious school.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LOBBYIST_PROBE?SITE=MAHYC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-02-11-07-28-30

Three more Republicans....and still they are trying to wave a bipartisan flag??? Gimme a break.

[DS1]

3. The link works, but there's a trick

click link, select your location - AP just wants the cookie

come back here, click the link again and you'll get the flash

[DS1]

2. 6 megs is irrelevant, it's just really amateur Flash coding that

makes it that big, it should be no more than 500k.

Anyway, they might as well have taken this directly from rnc.com

Wow.

[wryter2000]

4. Ye gods

When did they get into the fiction writing business? Have they been taking lessons from James Frey? Do they get a prize if they pin something on a Dem?

[Historic NY]

5. Funny the link associates to the Oakland Tribune.......

but you can't find the story on the home page.....

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune

Definitely an all out attack on Reid.

[guruoo]

6. See the OP update

[chaumont58]

7. The repukes own the press, just like Congress, White House, and most

of the Judges.

With all the irons they can put in the fire, its a wonder even we don't think Harry Reid IS Jack Abramoff.

The beltway whores, and their follow travelers, got to cover the repukes' asses. There will be more 'evidence.'

[okieinpain]

8. man the press sure can investigate when they want to huh!!