Breaking ABC NEWS now....Abramoff MUCH closer ties to White House,

[Rowdyboy]

Rove dispensing gifts. Apparently a big studyis coming out tomorrow.

Will post a link asap.

Questions of whether gifts violated gift ban and Abramoff got what he wanted for his clients.

[rzemanfl]

1. Will not have anything to do with ABC, hopefully this story will

turn up elsewhere.

[NewJeffCT]

2. ABC News?

Are they trying to make up for Path to 9/11?

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Maybe ABC Australia ;)

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Oh, Good God--is this IT, at last?

The end of the Puggy dictatorship?

[NewJeffCT]

5. He'll just imprison anybody who dares question him

and then let the spinmeisters at Fox, CNN, etc tell us that he's protecting our families.

[Tin Man]

6. I tried to bring this (developing) story to the attention of DU last July

Sadly, I was the only reply to my OP... :(

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1639306

Glad to see that the story is turning out as I had hoped.

K&R

[AX10]

7. We really need this right now.

[senseandsensibility]

8. Rove dispensing gifts?

This sounds interesting.

[Berry Cool]

12. Wow, here we were waiting for Fitzmas...

and we didn't realize it was Rove who was giving out the gifts!

[senseandsensibility]

13. LOL

Rovemas doesn't have quite the same ring, though.

[tridim]

14. Gifts.. Like 15 minutes with 8 inches of uncut man-whore? n/t

[tridim]

15. Dupe

[blitzburgh55]

9. Here's more

Hundreds of contacts between top White House officials and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates "raise serious questions about the legality and actions" of those officials, according to a draft bipartisan report prepared by the House Government Reform Committee.

The 95-page report, which White House officials reviewed Wednesday evening but has yet to be formally approved by the panel, singled out two of President Bush¹s top lieutenants, Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman, as having been offered expensive meals and exclusive tickets to premier sporting events and concerts by Abramoff and his associates.

In total, the committee was able to document 485 contacts between White House officials and Abramoff and his lobbying team at the firm Greenberg Traurig from January 2001 to March 2004, with 82 of those contacts occuring in Rove's office, including 10 with Rove personally. The panel also said that Abramoff billed his clients nearly $25,000 for meals and drinks with these officials during that period.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001631.php

[Rowdyboy]

18. Thanks....I appreciate your finding a link!

[Totally Committed]

10. Naturally it's coming out tomorrow... it's Friday!

After the Friday afternoon news dump, there'll be nothing else heard about it.

Pisses me off!

TC

[Parche]

11. abramoff

ABC will release the very damaging information on 8November 2006.............

[AtomicKitten]

16. this can't be a surprise to anyone

still it will be some task ferreting out the magnitude of the involvement

[AlinPA]

17. It won't be noticed- football weekend, T.O., celebrity news, car chases

Colorado school story, more busting on Clinton will dominate the news. Plus people will be watching Tyra Banks and Access Hollywood.