Who is Susan Ralston?

[annabanana]

besides being Rove's former personal assistant, a special assistant to B*sh and Jack Abramoff's former personal secretary - and someone who has spoken to Patrick Fitzgerald?

[Rick Myers]

1. That's QUITE a resume.

I hope she has bodyguards!

[clmbohdem]

2. Info found here

http://www.dailykos.com/tag/Susan%20Ralston

[Me.]

3. Wonder What She Said To FitzG.?

Given that Rove is under the gun again, and that FiztC. is talking to V. Novak regarding her conversations with Rove's attorney and that Truthout is reporting today that Rove is making a deal, this is getting interesting.

[Catrina]

4. She's been before the GJ twice

and was called back again recently. She also always checked with Norquist as to who she should put through to Rove.

She is Filipino ~ she is around 35 years old. I don't know whether or not she was born here. I do know that Abramoff was involved in some scam in the Philipines, but don't have a link to that story right now.

[Catrina]

5. More on Susan Ralston

Sorry to double post, but it was too late to edit post #4.

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Susan Ralston is easily the most influential Filipino-American in the Bush Administration. As the only Fil-Am with an office in the West Wing as executive assistant to Karl Rove, Susan is involved in overseeing the strategic planning, political affairs, public liaison, and inter-governmental affairs of the White House.

At a press conference earlier in the day, Ms. Ralston was asked if President Bush supported HR 677. She replied that the question should be directed to the President. She was then asked if she personally supported HR 677. She replied that she does "not do policy."

In her speech at the Gala Night, Ms Ralston talked about how it feels to work for a "Rock Star President. He cares about your issues," she assured her audience.

In her response at the conclusion of the program, NaFFAA national chairperson Loida Nicolas Lewis pointedly asked Susan Ralston to show that President Bush cares about our issues by supporting the Filipino Veterans Equity Bill.

Before Loida's remarks, however, the audience saw an MTV music video of the "Apl Song" by the pop group Black-Eyed Peas. "APL," the initials of Allan Pineda Lindo, the real name of the group's leader "Will.I.Am," tells the story of a Filipino WW II vet abandoned in a nursing home and forced to watch as other residents laugh and smile with their loving children and grandchildren. Woven through the video is footage of the Black-Eyed Peas performing, with images of Apl as an adult and as a child and footage of Filipino veterans chained to the gates of the White House demanding equity for Filipino veterans. The polished video is the work of Daly City's own filmmaker Patrick Ginelsa.


http://www.inq7.net/globalnation/col_gln/2004/sep20.htm

While she claims to be involved in Filipino issues, she apparently wasn't too interested in this one. A true Republican, it seems, who cares little about the poor, veterans' rights etc.

[SoCalDem]

11. Wonder how close she is to the Filipino Spy case.

Maybe she knows more than she should about that one, and was offered a deal if she "sings nicely"..

Filipinos have a very close-knit culture. You KNOW she had to have some contact with this person..

....

curiouser and curiouser
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=filipino+spy+white+house+ralston
.....

Daily Kos: Who Is Susan Ralston? Fitz Reportedly Reinterviews Key ...
Prior to being hired by Rove at the White House, Ms. Ralston was a ... This brings
us to Leandro Aragoncillo, the Filipino spy in the Office of the Vice ...
angry-young-man.dailykos.com/ storyonly/2005/11/10/1537/1310 - 25k - Cached - Similar pages

TvNewsLIES.org :: View topic - Susan Ralston Next Spy Or Next ...
WASHINGTON, DC – Susan Bonzon Ralston is a major player among the top four Filipino
Americans at the White House. As Executive Assistant to Karl C. Rove, ...
tvnewslies.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2351& - 65k - Nov 26, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

Philippine News Online: OPINION
... list by becoming the first female (and first minority) chef ever appointed in
the White House. ... We now have a Filipino “spy.” Actually, we have two. ...
www.philippinenews.com/news/view_category. html?page=4&first=21&last=27&category_id=215 - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

Counterintelligence News for the week of: September 11-17, 2005
In statements printed in several Filipino newspapers, Panfilo Lacson -- a key
... The latest White House staffer to face the grand jury is Susan B. Ralston, ...
www.cicentre.com/2005_CI_News_Archive/ NEWS_2005_Sep_11_to_17.htm - 89k - Cached - Similar pages

Hi, I'm my name is America & I'ma recovering country -- by Sam Smith
Barth, a holdover from the Bush Sr. administration, left the White House in the
fall of 1993 to join Motorola as a lobbyist. MORE. APRIL 2001. SPY PLANE ...
prorev.com/china3.htm - 56k - Cached - Similar pages

OSS.Net, Inc. Home Page
The fact that the White House would welcome this individual to America causes us
to believe Robert Baer ... UPDATED 8 Aug 05 re National Guard "spy center." ...
www.oss.net/extra/news/?id=1334 - 101k - Nov 26, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

THE NEWSROOM
Ralston told the grand jury that Cooper’s call to Rove was transferred to Rove’s
office by the White House switchboard. She testified that the call was not ...
jasonleopold.blogspot.com/ - 116k - Cached - Similar pages

CNN.com - Transcripts
White House Fallout; New Delhi Blasts; Power Still Out In Florida; Capital Gains
... Israeli Denies Spy Allegations; Novak Zone: A Look at GOP Convention ...
edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/smn.html - 101k - Nov 26, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

Democratic Underground - Top Rove aide ‘critical’ in CIA probe ...
WASHINGTON DC – Filipino American Susan Ralston, chief of-staff to presidential
adviser Karl Rove, ... Then there's Aragoncillo, the White House spy. ...
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/ duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1912615 - 244k - Cached - Similar pages

News interest Index
19%, Coup attempt/Filipino gov't (Dec-1989) ... 16%, White House leak of CIA
agent (Oct-2003) ... 11%, Ralston's w/drawal from JCOS (Jun-1997) ...
people-press.org/nii/ - 101k - Cached - Similar pages

Try searching for filipino spy white house ralston on Google

[annabanana]

12. Interesting avenue you have wandered into there..

I wondered about that spy.. It seemed to come out of the blue, unrelated to anything else around it.

[leftofthedial]

6. satan's stenographer?

[BrotherBuzz]

7. Susan Ralston is Grover Norquist's go to plant in the White House.

Grover Norquist pulls strings in the White House remotely.

[AnnInLa]

8. Read on some Lefty blog today that she is cooperating with Fitz

and has told him that rove told her to alter some phone logs (re the call to Matt Cooper?) I can't remember exactly what the blogger said...will try to find it again.

[AnnInLa]

9. Atrios had it

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com

Ralston

If true this could be quite a big deal:


Earlier this month, attorneys say Fitzgerald received additional testimony from Ralston -- who said that Rove instructed her not to log a phone call Rove had with Cooper about Plame in July 2003.

Ralston also provided Fitzgerald with more information and "clarification" about several telephone calls Rove allegedly made to a few reporters, including syndicated columnist Robert Novak, the lawyers said.

[annabanana]

10. good stuff...

lala is always ahead of the curve.