EMAIL to CASINO JACK CONCERNING JUDGES AND ROVE'S INVOLVEMENT FROM 2001 *PIC PROVIDED*

[MagickMuffin]

Was going through my Abramoff emails when I stumbled upon this:wow:

[MagickMuffin]

1. Anyone care to guess who's name is marked out?

Just in that paragraph we have Rove, Grover, Ralph and whoever is blackened out.

My guess perhaps Susan:shrug:

[Clark2008]

5. Susan?

I'm sorry - I haven't kept up with some of the players. Susan who?

[MagickMuffin]

6. Susan Ralston, she was Casino Jack Abramoff's Assistant before she landed her job with Rove.

So, she was a go between the two, as well as Grover Norquist.

[Clark2008]

14. Thanks! eom

[hootinholler]

17. Don't forget Jack bitching about email sent to Susan's rnc pager

Getting forwarded into the WH email system

-Hoot

[ms liberty]

2. UnHoly corruption, Batman! Wonder if there's any more? n/t

[MagickMuffin]

4. Oh I'm almost certain there is

will continue to look for little nuggets. However, for now I need to get some rest. After I've rested I continue with the WORK, I will post whatever I find...

[opusprime]

More on Glen D. Nager here....

http://www.tulanelink.com/tulanelink/dcjudges_06a.htm

[Mabus]

3. More e-mails between Nager and Abrams; re: judgeship

PDF's of e-mails at:
http://www.law.com/pdf/dc/nager_abramoff_emails.pdf

Article about the lengthy e-mail exchanges: http://www.law.com/jsp/dc/PubArticleDC.jsp?id=1163498721982&hub=TopStories
First four paragraphs of article below, rest at link.

Even without the help of Jack Abramoff, by most accounts Glen Nager was a strong candidate for a judgeship on what is widely seen as the nation’s second most important court.

Having argued his first Supreme Court case as a 28-year-old assistant to Reagan-era Solicitor General Charles Fried, Nager has long been regarded as something of a legal prodigy. By 2001, 14 years after that first argument, Nager had frequently appeared before the Court and the nation’s other top appeals courts. In private practice, he quickly rose through the ranks of the appellate group at Jones Day, one of the world’s largest law firms. His friends and acquaintances included former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, noted conservative appellate Judge Laurence Silberman, and Michael Carvin, a top Republican lawyer who represented then-presidential candidate George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore.

Nager now chairs the appellate group at Jones Day. But back in early 2001, Nager had his sights set on another job. He wanted the president to nominate him to a lifetime spot on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a 10-judge court known as something of a training ground for Supreme Court nominees. (Four of the current nine justices once sat on the court.)

Openly campaigning for a judicial nomination is seen as unseemly. But behind the scenes, competition is intense. Potential nominees have been known to send four-inch-thick binders of information about themselves; and at least one applicant in recent years has sent the Justice Department a videotape. “Getting the opportunity is a bit like being struck by lightning,” says Eleanor Acheson, who headed the Justice Department office responsible for vetting judges under President Bill Clinton. “It’s just very hard.”

[MagickMuffin]

10. Thanks for the additional links

:hi:

[Mabus]

13. We're all in this together. Information sharing is the key

Someone else found it when the article was printed. I just happened to have it bookmarked and your post jogged my memory. My hat is off to you.

:hi:

[babsbunny]

7. I am all out of popcorn!

Better stock up! :popcorn: Oh yeah, some beer too! :toast:

[alfredo]

8. Is it a PDF? If it is you might be able to remove the

redacting. I believe the redacting might be on a layer above the text. Unless they removed the words and entered ******, you might be able to remove the black.

Try this if it is a PDF:


From Slashdot.org

"The latest installment of "As the PDF Blackouts Turn" hit today, with a U.S. government apparently releasing a redacted version of their court filing in the Balco grand jury leak case which merely stuck a black line over the text, which remains available in the document. As with prior documents, entering text cut/paste mode in a normal PDF browser such as Acrobat allows a reader to access the concealed text. Previous incidents include an AT&T filing in the NSA case." This works with Xpdf and KPDF, too; for KPDF, use the selection tool (under the Tools menu) around the redacted section, copy to clipboard, then paste into the text-manipulator of your choice.

[MagickMuffin]

11. These are pdf's, however, they are photocopied

and I haven't figured out a way to work around that issue.

Is the technique you mention able to be used on pdf's that have been photocopied?

I will check back later. Need to rest up for now.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. It appears to me that this was marked out on the hard copy

Prior to being copied. I don't see how the method mentioned above would work when that's the case.

[alfredo]

16. It depends on when the redacted them. Did they redact them after

the photocopying or after?

[radfringe]

9. might have hit some gold

I have to run out to do errands in a few minutes, so I don't have time to really study the article below..

Nager Looked to Abramoff for Judgeship
Glen Nager wanted to be a judge, and he turned to Jack Abramoff for help
By Jason McLure | Legal Times
November 20, 2006
http://www.law.com/jsp/dc/PubArticleDC.jsp?id=1163498721982&hub=TopStories


--snip---

To increase his chances, in early 2001 Nager turned to Abramoff, then a lobbyist at Greenberg Traurig, for help with an enterprise Nager referred to as “The Project.” That year, Nager and Abramoff traded a series of e-mails about Nager’s ultimately unsuccessful campaign to land a spot on the federal bench.

“t seems to me that the goal here is to make the case that I should be the next court of appeals nominee,” Nager wrote to Abramoff in early March. “The point is that I have the best chance of going through.”

The e-mails indicate that Abramoff lobbied White House political adviser Karl Rove on Nager’s behalf and that Nager repeatedly sought Abramoff’s advice on strategy. The messages became public this fall, when the House Government Reform Committee released a report on Abramoff and his associates, documenting nearly 500 contacts with the White House on a variety of matters. The report was based largely on thousands of pages of e-mail correspondence by Abramoff and his colleagues, turned over to the committee by Greenberg Traurig.

---snip---

Nager also outlined a plan to use an acquaintance to get inside information on White House deliberations via the deputy White House counsel at the time, Timothy Flanigan.

“I talked to my friend Roger Clegg. . . . He knows the new Deputy White House counsel pretty well, as well as others in White House counsel’s office. He is going to try to gather intelligence for us about who within that office is responsible on a day to day basis for putting files together,” Nager wrote. “He is fully behind the effort, and at the appropriate time will organize a bunch of former Reagan and Bush Sr. Administration DOJ and White House lawyers behind the effort. For now, however, he will just do intelligence work, feed me the information, and await requests for action from me. (And I of course will wait for guidance from you.)”



background puff info: http://www.jonesday.com/gdnager/

[babylonsister]

15. So much for Abramoff and the wh not knowing each other. nt

[MagickMuffin]

18. They have actually known each other BEFORE the Mad king Boy George was considering

running back in 1999. I found an email that debunked that claim long ago. Casino Jack came to Texas to meet them.

Just more lies on their part. When you've told as many as those A**holes there is NO way you can remember them ALL to keep the stories straight.