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Friday, July 07, 2006
At What Point Is It No Longer "Spin" and Becomes, Well, You Know, a "Lie?"
Josh Marshall points out yet another untruth from the mouth of Ken Mehlman:
From MSNBC, June 30th, 2006 ...
The [Justice Department IG] report also contained evidence of
Abramoff's strong ties to the Bush White House. One White House political
official, Leonard Rodriguez, told Fine's investigators he kept Abramoff aware of
information relevant to Guam "at the behest of Ken Mehlman, the White House
Political Director," the report said. There was no explanation of why Mehlman
would have wanted the information shared with Abramoff.
Ken Mehlman, quoted in Vanity Fair, May 2006: "Abramoff is someone who we don't know a lot about. We know what we read in the paper."
Look, it's clear by now that intellectual honesty is not Mehlman's strong suit, but this one takes the cake. Mehlman now describes Abramoff as he would describe the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness Monster, after having ordered people to keep Abramoff in the loop years earlier. It's kinda like how the Administration described Bush's relationship with "Kenny Boy" Lay after Enron imploded. (Neglecting to mention that the Bush campaign was shuttled to and from Florida during the recount on Enron corporate jets).
So, if this is the degree of honesty that we can come to expect from Mehlman, I wonder what to make of his denial that he knew about the phone jamming plot organized by James Tobin in NH in 2002? I hear that the plaintiffs in the NH civil case are trying to take his deposition. That could be fun.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Slot It In
Atrios is right. This is truly a classic moment. I love Bennett's reaction to Priest's comment. You won't be disappointed.
