McClellan REFUSES to go "fishing"...White House SILENT on Abramoff visits

[Bluebear]

The White House is refusing to reveal details of tainted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's visits with President Bush's staff.

Abramoff had "a few staff-level meetings" at the Bush White House, presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday. But he would not say with whom Abramoff met, which interests he was representing or how he got access to the White House.

Since Abramoff pleaded guilty two weeks ago to conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion charges in an influence-peddling scandal, McClellan has told reporters he was checking into Abramoff's meetings. "I'm making sure that I have a thorough report back to you on that," he said in his press briefing Jan. 5. "And I'll get that to you, hopefully very soon."

McClellan said Tuesday that he checked on it at reporters' requests, but wouldn't discuss the private staff-level meetings. "We are not going to engage in a fishing expedition," he said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_abramoff&printer=1

[peekaloo]

1. "his hypocrisy knows no bounds"

How I love to see Poppin' Flesh Dough Boy eat his own words.

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. "We are not going to engage in a fishing expedition,"

Those are code words for "Oh My God! We have to hide another lie". You can bet your bottom dollar that there is a LONG list of meeting between Jackie and HIGH LEVEL BushCo people.

[Triana]

3. "We are not going to engage in a fishing expedition,"

NO "fishing expedition" eh?

Does he mean like the FISHING EXPEDITION THE REPUBES ENGAGED IN WHEN CLINTON WAS PRESIDENT?

WHY NOT? What's good for the goose....eh? Gee Scotty. Are you a - HYPROCRITE?

[driver8]

4. I wish he would engage his head from his ass once in awhile...

Scotty is such a little weasel -- I cannot stand that guy.

"We are not going to engage in a 'blame game'".

"We are not going to engage in a 'fishing expedition'".

"What we will engage in, however, is an illegal war and spying on the citizens of this country."

[rustydog]

5. Bribery suspicion is knocking on the door of the Oval Office

No wonder the media and McClellan jumped on Gore's speech....HEY look over there! there is no story regarding Abramoff having access to white house staff meetings.....hey look, that traitor Gore spied on people and illegally searched a CIA spy's house ages ago!!!!

Don't look here, look over there!

[chat_noir]

6. Nedra Pickler gets it right again

Gore and Bush administration trade barbs over eavesdropping program


McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.

"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.

But at the time of the Ames search in 1993 and when Gorelick testified a year later, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act required warrants for electronic surveillance for intelligence purposes, but did not cover physical searches. The law was changed to cover physical searches in 1995 under legislation that Clinton supported and signed.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060117-1430-gore-domesticspying.html

[rodeodance]

7. these staffers need to be questioned under oath!