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maandag, januari 23, 2006

Foto's met corrupte lobbyist brengen Bush in opspraak

Het tijdschrift TIME heeft inzage gehad in foto's die aantonen dat president George Bush jr. meerdere malen ontmoetingen heeft gehad met de omstreden lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Tot nu toe hebben zegslieden van het Witte Huis altijd ontkend dat de president Abramoff kende of zelfs maar ontmoet had. TIME kreeg van zijn bron geen toestemming om de foto's te publiceren, maar verwacht dat ze binnenkort toch in het openbaar zullen opduiken.

As details poured out about the illegal and unseemly activities of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, White House officials sought to portray the scandal as a Capitol Hill affair with little relevance to them. Peppered for days with questions about Abramoff's visits to the White House, press secretary Scott McClellan said the now disgraced lobbyist had attended two huge holiday receptions and a few "staff-level meetings" that were not worth describing further. "The President does not know him, nor does the President recall ever meeting him," McClellan said.

The President's memory may soon be unhappily refreshed. TIME has seen five photographs of Abramoff and the President that suggest a level of contact between them that Bush's aides have downplayed. While TIME's source refused to provide the pictures for publication, they are likely to see the light of day eventually because celebrity tabloids are on the prowl for them. And that has been a fear of the Bush team's for the past several months: that a picture of the President with the admitted felon could become the iconic image of direct presidential involvement in a burgeoning corruption scandal.







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