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Abramoff-Bush Photo Surfaces

From the White House via The New York Times

President Bush shaking hands in 2001 with Chief Raul Garza of the Kickapoo tribe of Texas. The arrow in the photo points to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, in background; Karl Rove, the president’s top advisor, is at the right.

The New York Times: WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—After weeks in which the White House has declined to release pictures of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist, the first photograph to be published of the two men shows a small, partly obscured image of Mr. Abramoff looking on from the background as Mr. Bush greets a Texas Indian chief in May 2001.

By itself, the picture hardly seems worthy of the White House’s efforts to keep it out of the public eye. Mr. Abramoff, a leading Republican fund-raiser who pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to corrupt public officials, is little more than a blurry, bearded figure in the background at a gathering of about two dozen people. | story

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By Jerry, February 14, 2006 at 3:50 pm #
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This picture is very damaging to this corrupt administration. Abramoff is under indictment for scamming millions from Indian tribes by claiming he had influence in Washington, This put the cart with the horse!!! No wonder Georgie and Co. didn’t want this to get out. This isn’t the stiff posed picture at some Washington mixer that GWB claimed it was, this is the the president at the scene of the crime for Gods sake!

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By Prakash, February 11, 2006 at 9:24 pm #
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POOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

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By James, February 11, 2006 at 8:50 pm #
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Why would you want to prevent this photo from being released? Everyone looks so happy in this picture. Was I going to automatically suspect that Bush was tied to Abramoff by this photo? The events leading up to this photo release lead me to believe that there is MORE going on than what’s been shown to the press; it merely arouses more suspicion. What else is going on, Mr. President?

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