Posted on 05/10/2006 2:37:31 PM PDT by wagglebee
Secret Service records made public Wednesday show just two White House visits in the past five years by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He stayed a total of 63 minutes, 29 seconds.
The documents are, by the White House's acknowledgment, an incomplete accounting of Abramoff's meetings with administration officials. They were released in connection with a lawsuit by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which had been seeking the records to determine the frequency of Abramoff's contacts with President Bush and others in his administration.
Abramoff spent just over a quarter hour at the White House on March 6, 2001, and almost 45 minutes there on Jan. 20, 2004, the Secret Service logs indicate.
A letter accompanying the logs indicates that the two meetings were all that could be found after a computer-generated search.
Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan has said that Abramoff attended Hanukkah receptions at the White House in 2001 and 2002, and some additional staff-level meetings.
A May 9, 2001, photo also shows Bush shaking hands with a leader of an American Indian tribe, with Abramoff in the background. There was no immediate explanation why the other visits were not in the Secret Service records.
Abramoff pleaded guilty in January in Washington to federal charges stemming from an investigation into his ties with members of Congress and the Bush administration. He also pleaded guilty to fraud charges in Miami concerning a multimillion-dollar purchase of SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet in 2000.
That's it? Hell, I've been to the WH more than that... and I'm a nobody. I bet there were Pizza delivery boys who had more time in the oval office than this guy.
What about the secret entrance that Clinton used?
My guess is that passing through security takes a good fifteen minutes if you're not on some type of "pre-cleared" list.
Yawn. . .
Sure, but don't let facts get in the way of a good assumption!
Let's see the list of BJ's visitors with names like Bambi and Pandora.
Wolf Blitz is saying that the logs are not telling the whole story!
Must be nice to be so in the loop!!
Poor, poor...Liberals! Another biscuit snatched from their nasty little mouths.
That was 211 LSD ttrips by Skinner on a single weekend, a three day weekend, but it's still a world record.
What is going to drive the left insane is the fact that Bush just turned over the logs, they know that this means there's nothing to hide. With the Klintoons, there would have been a two year court battle over executive privilege and then at the end, the logs would have been "lost."
It's more than that, it is the Secret Service that turned them over. To accuse this of being a 'cover up' is accusing the Secret Service, not just the administration.. of course, the left has no problems with that...
If I remember correctly, there were no logs in the Secret Service records of Vince Foster ever leaving the White House after telling his secretary, "I'll be right back."
That's because he never left except in some type of box or large duffel bag.
Only to be found on top of Bill's 10 lab. Bible.
You mean the used by Markie Post and Denise Rich when Hill's was out of town?
"I'll be right back."
I'm going for a walk in the park.....
Well for sure we know Monica had more time in there, but she delivered more than just pizza, didn't she?
"There was no immediate explanation why the other visits were not in the Secret Service records."
There was no immediate explanation of how the WHITEWATER files got into PRESIDENT Clinton's living quarters.
And sat on top of a desk or dresser undisturbed...
I guess the source for the 211 trips is the same guy who said Fitzgerald was going to get 22 indictments last December!
Monica L had more time on her knees than Jack Abramoff's total visits!
What a HOOT !
LOL - me too!
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