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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
Bush was interviewed by Elizabeth Vargas on Friday. This is how the interview started. She asked him a fairly softball question; what he thought when he saw the devestation of Katrina. This is how he answered, "I saw a lot of reporters taking pictures of people suffering and not helping."
The entire interview was very soft, and yet he was angry, bitter, sounded confused, and was very hostile to Vargas.
At the time of the interview, news had just come out that one of his former high level employees had been charged with theft, from Target of all places. This was after the guy had assured counsel Harriet Meiers that it was a mistake involving his credit card company.
Bush insulated himself with a staff of people that only assure him he is doing great, always right etc. Even in public, he only addresses pre-sorted crowds that will be friendly to him. Now we are learning that several of those who coddle and insulate him, have been full of crap, if not outright dishonest.
This is why I wish we had a vote of no confidence. The Bush administration needs to be weeded, desperately.
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Poppinjay....do you really believe that Allen was detained on Jan. 2 at a Target store, turned over to the local Police, and then released, and Bush's Security detail didn't...by the time that Allen resigned, a month later...look into the whole investigation thoroughly, and report what was going on....at least to Cheney or to Andy Card?
Do you think that they just accepted what Allen told them, without launching their own investigation on Jan. 2?
We're in the post Jeff Gannon era, and the agency responsible for Bush's security is not going to allow itself to be embarassed as it was when word got out that a gay male prostitute, using an alias, got close enough to Bush at ask him a question in a televised press Q&A.
Anyone with close proximity access to Bush is watched closely, especially with the history and with the growing disapproval of his governance. In the month that followed the Jan. 2 Target Store "incident", don't you suspect that the detectives found out where Allen worked, and gave the White House or the DOJ a "heads up", the DA's office probably did, too!
No....they knew...they wished that the Allen embarassment would go away, and that noone would remember that Bush appointed Allen to be a 4th Circuit Appeals Court Judge, or the "head" of the White House Katrina task force...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...1002328_2.html
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This is what police said happened Jan. 2:
Employees at the Target store at 25 Grand Corner Ave. in Gaithersburg spotted Allen putting merchandise in a shopping bag. He then walked over to the guest services desk, produced a receipt and received a refund for the items.
After getting the refund, Allen left the store without paying for additional merchandise in his shopping cart.
A store employee stopped him, and police were called to the store. Officers issued a citation charging him with theft under $500 but did not arrest him. <b>Court records show prosecutors dropped the misdemeanor charge, which is not unusual in cases in which detectives are considering filing more serious charges.</b>
Detectives from the county's retail crime unit soon learned that the incident was not an isolated event, Burnett said.
He said investigators were able to document 25 fraudulent refunds for items including a Bose home theater system, stereo equipment, clothes, a photo printer and items worth as little as $2.50....
.........As Bush's top domestic policy aide, <b>he frequently briefed the president and traveled with him on Air Force One, and he sat in first lady Laura Bush's box</b> during the president's State of the Union address Jan. 31. Two days, later he traveled with the president to Minnesota, briefing reporters about Bush's education and alternative energy proposals......
<b>Before that, Allen worked for the Virginia state attorney general's office and as state health and human resources secretary. In that job, he earned a reputation as a staunch conservative; once he kept Medicaid funds from an impoverished rape victim who wanted an abortion.</b>
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This guy Allen sounds like a description of John Bolton. Picking guys like these to have around in your staff's work enrvironment must promote a wonderful atmosphere. Why are they all so angry, even when they are on top?
Where do they find these freaks, and why do they all exhibit the same level of obsessiveness and obnoxious hypocrisy?
<h3>Just the kind of guy that I'd like to see as a Federal Appeals Court Judge, protecting the interests of the "least of us".</h3> For the 37 percent that still favors Bush, what will it take to dampen their enthusiasm?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...¬Found=true
......... Serving in Virginia's state government, <b>Allen opposed efforts by many health groups to expand Medicaid coverage of children,</b> calling it an expansion of welfare. He clashed with lawmakers over right-to-die legislation and efforts to improve state mental hospitals.
<b>"He was often at odds with the health care providers and consumers,"</b> said Del. Philip A. Hamilton (R-Newport News), chairman of the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions.
Lawmakers said <b>he could be friendly and affable but also vindictive and partisan. Relations became so bad that the assembly considered legislation requiring that Allen's department communicate effectively with all interested parties. </b>..............
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Doesn't this sound contrived and "tortured". Wait for more on monday. The "news" came out after business closed on friday, because it was "managed"!
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187531,00.html
.....After the news of Allen's arrest surfaced Friday, the White House provided an account of their knowledge of the events that led up to it.
The night of Jan. 2, after the alleged incident at the Target in Gaithersburg, he called White House chief of staff Andy Card to inform him of what had happened. The next morning, he spoke again, this time in person, with Card and White House counsel Harriet Miers, assuring them it was all a misunderstanding, press secretary Scott McClellan said.
Allen told his bosses there was merely confusion with his credit card because he had moved several times. "He assured them that he had done nothing wrong and the matter would be cleared up," McClellan said.
Allen told White House officials later that he wanted to resign because the job was too stressful on his family. His last day at the White House was Feb. 17, McClellan said.
The president first learned of Allen's planned departure and the January incident in early February, but since Allen had passed the usual background checks and had no other prior issues that White House officials were aware of, "He was given the benefit of the doubt," McClellan said.
"If it is true, no one would be more shocked and more outraged than the president," McClellan said. Allen has had no contact with the White House since his arrest........
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