Bush's (awkward?) Kodak moments (pics of Bush/Abramoff in "safe place")

[UpInArms]

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/01/bush_and_abramo.html

One of Washington's best perks is that if you're in the right job or know the right person, you can get invited to an official White House event and have your photograph taken with the president. There are plenty of people around town, including journalists with such photos (I think I've got five spanning two administrations.)

So it struck many folks around here as odd when the White House was asked if disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff had ever met the president and, if so, was there a photo of such a meeting that White House spokesman Scott McClellan's line was something like: we're looking for it.

Evidently, the White House can't be looking that hard. Washingtonian magazine reports that it has seen photos of the president and Abramoff, that there are at least five such photos.

...more...

from the Washingtonian magazine link

excerpt:

If the White House can’t find the photos, prosecutors already know where to look. The Washingtonian has seen five photos of the President with Abramoff or his family. One photo shows the President and Abramoff shaking hands at a meeting in the Old Executive Office Building, where a bearded-Abramoff introduced Bush to several of the lobbyist’s native-American clients.

Abramoff was named a “pioneer” in the Bush presidential campaign, collecting more than $100,000, in $2,000 maximum increments, for his campaign in 2004. Bush has returned $6,000 of Abramoff’s contributions, the part that would represent the legal limit for Abramoff; his wife, Pam; and a client.

Sources say the photographs are being kept safe. Abramoff would tell prosecutors, if asked, that not only did he know the President, but the President knew the names of Abramoff’s children and asked about them during their meetings. At one such photo session, Bush discussed the fact that both he and Abramoff were fathers of twins.

[Canuckistanian]

1. Any one of those photos is worth a lot of money

And the price is climbing higher and higher with each of Snotty's denials.

[gordianot]

2. Nominated, when they are released I want framed copies.

:bounce: :toast:

[brentspeak]

3. So who's not releasing them to the public?

[proud patriot]

4. and why ?

[Catherine Vincent]

5. you know what?

I wonder if the washingtonian have the photos. They say they have seen the photos but don't actually say they have them.

[Tom Joad]

6. I actually saw one videoclip. Jack is at a White House function,

and Bush embraces him tightly, and with obvious emotion. Jack is clearly visible in the crowd, wearing a beret.

[Sydnie]

7. Where might that have been?

I would LOVE to see that too.

[Tom Joad]

8. Yeah, President Bush today said that "I did not have

sex with that man, Mr. Abramhoff!"


Fictional Satire and reference to the fun 90's intended in preceeding posts.

[Sydnie]

9. Gotcha

coming late to the party you often miss the joke. :)

[progressoid]

10. Those photos will show up at about the same time the torture pics do.

If those pics did exist, the WH is working overtime to get rid of all copies.