<Fred Stone>
"The fact that the Justice Department is interested proves that the
Liberal Media is going after Tom DeLay"
</Fred Stone>
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1050216,00.html
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New York “It was congress’s 2000 Memorial Day holiday, and [House
Majority Whip Tom] DeLay’s staff thought the boss and two top aides
deserved a respite from the arduous hours they had been putting in
doing the people’s business,” TIME’s Karen Tumulty reports. They
wanted to make sure DeLay’s little delegation had the finest of
everything on its weeklong trip to Britain: from lodging at the Four
Seasons Hotel in London, to dinners at the poshest restaurants with
the most interesting people, right down to the best tickets for The
Lion King—at the time one of the hottest shows playing on the West
End, and one for which good seats usually meant a six-month wait. So
DeLay’s congressional office turned to someone they trusted far more
than any travel agent or concierge: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. “He ran
all the trips,” recalls one former top DeLay aide. “You ask where the
itineraries came from, who made all the travel arrangements—it all
came out of Jack’s shop,” TIME reports.
Previous trips had taken DeLay and members of his staff all over the
world, but none had been quite as meticulously planned as this one.
Three sources who worked with Abramoff at the time say the majority
whip’s office ran one of Abramoff’s assistants ragged with its
constantly changing requests. Indeed, say two of those sources, the
whole idea for the expensive London jaunt had originated with DeLay
aides as an additional stop to a golf outing that Abramoff had
proposed at Scotland’s famous St. Andrew’s course, TIME reports.
DeLay’s travel arrangements may be drawing the interest of the Justice
Department. Sources tell TIME that at least one former assistant to
Abramoff who was involved in setting up the 2000 trip to England and
Scotland is scheduled to be deposed this week by the FBI, whose
Washington field office has assigned half a dozen agents to an
investigation into the dealings of Abramoff and his business
associate, former DeLay spokesman Michael Scanlon...
The President’s team is increasingly frustrated by the majority
leader’s inability to mount a defense more persuasive than blaming his
problems on a liberal conspiracy. DeLay, says one senior
Administration official, “is handling this like an idiot,” TIME
reports.
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The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.6 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -1555 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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