{"id":7290,"date":"2006-05-02T09:11:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T13:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2006-05-02T09:11:54","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T13:11:54","slug":"white-house-logs-on-abramoff-to-go-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/white-house-logs-on-abramoff-to-go-public\/","title":{"rendered":"White House logs on Abramoff to go public"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back on Jan. 4, Scott McClellan promised reporters a “thorough report<\/a>” on Jack [tag]Abramoff[\/tag]’s [tag]White House[\/tag] contacts “very soon.” Shortly thereafter, [tag]McClellan[\/tag] decided he didn’t want to talk about the issue anymore. At this point, the White House must be working quite diligently on McClellan’s “thorough report,” because no one’s heard a peep on the issue since.<\/p>\n

Over the next week or so, we may learn quite a bit more<\/a> about the White House’s relationship with the disgraced former GOP lobbyist.<\/p>\n

Despite repeated White House objections to the release of documents related to Jack Abramoff’s visits to the White House, the Secret Service has agreed to produce all logs detailing the disgraced lobbyist’s meetings, according to a court filing released Monday.<\/p>\n

The Secret Service agreed on April 25 to drop any objections to turning over the information and will “produce any and all documents” on or before May 10, according to the filing released by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on February 2. […]<\/p>\n

The court filing, signed by Judge John Garrett Penn of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, also stipulates the Secret Service will release the documents “without redactions or claims of exemptions” this month…. An official at the Justice Department, which is representing the Secret Service, confirmed to CNN that the Abramoff documents “will be turned over on or before May 10” without redaction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe there will be some blockbuster revelations; maybe not. To date, however, we know that the [tag]Bush[\/tag] gang has been less than forthcoming on their Abramoff ties. At the height of the inquiries in January, a reporter asked if the White House would be willing to provide Congress or the public a list of Abramoff’s contacts with senior staff. McClellan wouldn’t answer the question. Asked when Abramoff attended staff-level meetings at the White House, McClellan said “early in the 2000 time period,” which is not only vague, but odd since Bush didn’t take office until 2001.<\/p>\n

Who was in the staff-level meetings with Abramoff? McClellan wouldn’t say. What issues were discussed at the meetings Abramoff attended? McClellan wouldn’t say. Which clients were represented by Abramoff at his White House meetings? McClellan wouldn’t say. Did any of the president’s senior staff attend these meetings? McClellan wouldn’t say. Did Karl [tag]Rove[\/tag] meet with Abramoff? McClellan wouldn’t say. At one point, McClellan went so far as to suggest the burden is on reporters<\/a> to come up with specific information, not just specific questions.<\/p>\n

After the Secret Service releases this information by May 10, we may have all kinds of specific information. If recent history is any guide, I expect the files to be issued on Friday, May 5, around 6:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back on Jan. 4, Scott McClellan promised reporters a “thorough report” on Jack [tag]Abramoff[\/tag]’s [tag]White House[\/tag] contacts “very soon.” Shortly thereafter, [tag]McClellan[\/tag] decided he didn’t want to talk about the issue anymore. At this point, the White House must be working quite diligently on McClellan’s “thorough report,” because no one’s heard a peep on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}