If the only info is that Abramov took strolls through the rose garden, then Shrub is protecting the most trivial events as executive secrets whether or not they have any standing – an action which could easily be seen as obstruction of justice.

If the Abramov visits were “indeed” executive secrets, then Abramov was involved in discussions with Shrub on policy and legislation with the high probability that graft was somewhere in the picture – and- Shrub is using the law to hide his guilt.

Some have claimed that there has been a deal made which placed impeachment ‘off the table’. I’ve even heard the incredible charge that the deal included derailing court cases which would force the issue- probably the telecom immunity. GWU Professor Johnathan Turley apparently said the arrangement was well known in Washington.

Why would they agree to something like that? Future power promises? Bags of cash? Embarrassing photos? Threats? Whatever the reason, if such a deal occured they should all be removed from office and charged with obstruction of justice as well as anything else that has been going on behind the curtain.

….But the motherlode relates to Abramoff’s meetings with Karl Rove and Rove staffers, which likely number into the hundreds—and are matched by hundreds, if not thousands of emails and telephone conversations……

The trail of the Abramoff investigation led several times directly into the White House, but Bush Administration Justice Department investigators, headed by Public Integrity head, Noel Hillman, consistently refused to follow any leads. Hillman was rewarded for keeping things on the right track.

He’s now a federal judge.

One likely trail led straight to Alabama and the current controversy surrounding the politically motivated prosecution of former Governor Don E. Siegelman. Abramoff and his sidekick Michael Scanlon, a former assistant to current governor Bob Riley, were deeply involved in advising and
representing gambling interests in the Southeast. They turned their clients to support Riley in his campaign against Siegelman, and are linked to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars which flowed into the Riley campaign coffers. It seems likely that Rove knew of or perhaps even had some marginal involvement in these funding and campaign efforts, which sit firmly in the background of the efforts to remove Siegelman from the political process through a corrupt prosecution.

more at:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/12/hbc-90001814

That seems to imply that only the top republicans are guilty. If that was the case, what you wish for would probably have already happened.

You mean like this?

In the fall of 1977, Abramoff, a recent adherent to Orthodox Judaism and son of a wealthy businessman, arrived at Brandeis, with the campus roiling.

Students were agitating for divestment from South Africa, nuclear disarmament, and exit visas for Soviet Jews, turning the concrete plaza in front of the sprawling student center into a stage for left-wing speeches and protests. Feminist author Betty Friedan, antiwar activist Abbie Hoffman, and writer Norman Mailer were welcomed as heroes when they visited.

But Abramoff admired another figure — Ronald Reagan — an idealistic Californian like himself who was ”the most pro-Israel candidate in the presidential campaign,” Abramoff told the student newspaper, The Justice, in September 1980, his senior year.

Enthralled, Abramoff made his mark on campus, organizing parties, softball games, and movie nights for the Brandeis College Republicans, which elected him chairman. Targeting freshmen, he turned the club from a laughingstock into a formidable movement of 150 young Reaganites by the fall of 1980, as Reagan headed toward his election win.

Selected the lead student organizer for Reagan in Massachusetts, Abramoff hung ”Reagan ‘80″ banners off bridges over Route 128, helped register 3,000 students to vote, schmoozed men in South Boston social clubs, and accompanied Maureen Reagan, the candidate’s daughter, on a trip to Brookline to persuade the Bostoner Rebbe, a national Hasidic leader, to endorse Reagan, a nod that was believed to be worth thousands of Orthodox Jewish votes

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/01/15/roots_of_a_lobbyist/

-GSD

Like Abramoff was in bed with the South African apartheid government of the 1980’s who paid for him to make a crappy film?

Like Abramoff was fundraising for night vision, sniper and other military equipment to send to Israel to arm the far right?

Both of those things would trigger “red flags” when Abramoff asked for admittance to the White House complex, yet both of those things are known and in the press.

Wouldn’t it be nice to learn that St. Ronnie Reagan (who supported the South African apartheid regime) has some connection to young GOP’er Jack Abramoff, way back when.

It would to me.

First, Jack Abramoff probably had a permanent White House pass. They have chosen not to disclose this.

Second, Glomar Explorer? That was a Nixon-sanctioned secret operation that went to court during the Ford Administration. Common link is Dick Cheney.

This court precedent ridiculousness has Cheney written all over it — who else could cite a Ford-era ruling?

Given this fact, taken in conjunction with what other posters have said about Judicial Watch, sounds like the Judical watch suit is a sham case to try and drag other cases down with it, via consolidation, or to make pro-secrecy precedent with slopppy apellate work

and think that we were treated to a deluge of deceptive statements by the White House that insisted Pres Bush didn’t know Abramoff, had never met him and/or had contacts in any form, shape or way.

Turns out, not only were they lying, there is “highly sensitive documents” with detail of Abramoff’s visits to the White House. I wonder how much corruption is detailed in these documents that makes them “highly sensitive”.

/sarc on

I thought Abramoff was just a lobbyist gone bad. Silly me.

/sarc off