White House aide of George Bush/Guilty on 4 counts

Safavian Found Guilty in Lobbyist Trial

By PETE YOST
1. WASHINGTON Jun 20, 2006 (AP)— A jury found former Bush administration official David Safavian guilty Tuesday of covering up his dealings with Republican influence-peddler Jack Abramoff.
Safavian was convicted on four of five felony counts of lying and obstruction. He had resigned from his White House post last year as the federal government's chief procurement officer.
The trial consumed eight days of testimony about Safavian's assistance to Abramoff regarding government-owned real estate and a weeklong golfing excursion the lobbyist organized to the famed St. Andrews golf course in Scotland and London. Safavian went on the trans-Atlantic trip while he was chief of staff at the General Services Administration, and other participants were Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, two Ney aides and Christian Coalition founder Ralph Reed.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2097589

a word about this. Nah, not so amazing at all.

Bushbots this is not important. There is just too much fear to be monged.

the day of the first real conviction of a Bush staffer

because he was a government employee, I bet you didn't hear this on MSNBC, why we need our
newspapers

Tanker Inquiry Finds Rumsfeld's Attention Was Elsewhere
By R. Jeffrey SmithWashington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 20, 2006; Page A15


The topic was the largest defense procurement scandal in recent decades, and the two investigators for the Pentagon's inspector general in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office on April 1, 2005, asked the secretary to raise his hand and swear to tell the truth.
Rumsfeld agreed but complained. "I find it strange," he said to the investigators, on the grounds that as a government official "the laws apply to me" anyway.

It was a bumpy start to an odd interview, as Rumsfeld cited poor memory, loose office procedures, and a general distraction with "the wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan to explain why he was unsure how his department came to nearly squander $30 billion leasing several hundred new tanker aircraft that its own experts had decided were not needed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901090.html?referrer=email

one year ago under the Freedom of Information Act, so a number of journalists do care and
are trying to give us the "full picture" but look what they are fighting against.

the average number of people who watch the nightly news is dropping and I think the age
range is over 60. News has made itself more portable with itunes, podcasts, mp3 files
to reach the entire population and then there is the impact of our blogs. Look at the
Colbert speech at the journalists dinner.

Remember Good Night and Good Luck, they actually searched the papers for news.

the Hindenberg...more so every day.