Bush/Abramoff Photos- Met Bush "almost a dozen" times

[Clara T]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11867.htm

Abramoff says he met Bush "almost a dozen" times
Thu Feb 9, 2006 6:53 PM ET
By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jack Abramoff said in correspondence made public on Thursday that President Bush met him "almost a dozen" times, disputing White House claims Bush did not know the former lobbyist at the center of a corruption scandal.

"The guy saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids. Perhaps he has forgotten everything, who knows," Abramoff wrote in an e-mail to Kim Eisler, national editor for the Washingtonian magazine.

Abramoff added that Bush also once invited him to his Texas ranch.The messages were made public by the American Progress Action Fund, a liberal activist group. Eisler confirmed their accuracy to Reuters but said he did not intend them to become public. They reflect the feeling of frustration he has not just with Bush but with all these guys claiming they didn't know him," said Eisler, who knew Abramoff through a book he wrote about the Pequot Indian tribe.

Bush has said he never had a discussion with Abramoff and does not remember having his picture taken with him. The White House has said Abramoff attended three Hanukkah receptions at the White House.
Eisler said he had seen five photographs of Abramoff with Bush, none taken at Hanukkah parties.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said on Thursday that the revelations did not prove Bush knew him well.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-02-09T235347Z_01_N09414019_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-ABRAMOFF.xml&rpc=22

[DemInDistress]

1. two things,,,that doesn't look like the "handshake on the line of bigs"

and where is the photo of bush,jack the rat and jeff "bulldog" gannon in the sauna? hm !! wouldnt that be lovely,all 3 scumbags in the hot tub naked...wow

[FreedomAngel82]

2. Are these really them?

[Clara T]

5. Real deal

You'll see more in the coming days and the mighty Wurlitzer will come into play, not that it needs to Olympics are on, to downplay it all.

Just photo ops ya' know. Move along now.

[klook]

3. Site not coming up

Getting slammed with visitors?

Here's the link from the www.informationclearinghouse.info site:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060210210645/http://www.reflectionsorders.com/view_event_photos.asp?EVENTID=4080&start=1

Updated with hyperlink

[cally]

4. Is this the first time these have been published?

I've not seen these before. Wow.

[upi402]

6. Clara T and Amy Goodman

:yourock:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

7. i was beginning to wonder . . .

. . . if we'd ever see these.

Sleep well tonight, Dubya, you lyin' horse's ass . . .

[usregimechange]

8. Are these real? Where can we get the blown up versions?

[BuyingThyme]

9. Actually, everybody's getting this wrong. Meeting somebody in a dozen

settings is not necessarily the same as meeting somebody a dozen times.

He may have met with chimpy hundreds of times.

[caledesi]

10. Those are real pix.

I was at Josh Marshall's site about a month ago and he blogged that he had seen pix at the "Reflections Photography" site, but when he went back to get them, they were scrubbed. He even called Reflections for the pix...but they denied him.


Scrub-a-Dub-Dub!

TPM Reader FL started poking around the Reflections Photography website this afternoon and even managed to find one of the key gaps.

I justed heard back from him and he told us that just over the last hour or more whole sections of the company's archives have been pulled down off the web. Sure enough, when we checked, big chunks of the site had already bit the dust. The Ralph Reed party we mentioned earlier still seems to be holding on. But the folks at Reflections already seem to have pulled a whole event from which one of Bush/Abramoff photographs had earlier been erased.

So the digital shredding party seems to be underway. Check the site before the whole things cycles down the memory hole.

-- Josh Marshall


www.talkingpointsmemo.com search for Abramoff

[caledesi]

11. Can't wait until the press throw these and Abramoff's own words

at Simple Snotty Scotty!

[kster]

12. I'm sorry I dont see it..................nt

[Clara T]

13. kick n/t

[Melissa G]

14. archive and email these those of you who know how!

I'm not savvy that way...

[rpgamerd00d]

15. STOP POSTING THESE - IT IS **NOT** ABRAMOFF - Its Mel Martinez.

Christ

[Catherine Vincent]

16. That is not Republican Lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

[Scout1071]

17. NOT ABRAMOFF. Been covered many times over the last few days.

[medeak]

18. Delete this thread! It's totall bunk!

jeesh! Why are the sheep voting for this? It's Rick Renzi (R-AZ),