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Skriven 2004-08-28 07:05:12 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
   Kommentar till text 1490 av BOB SAKOWSKI (1:123/140)
Ärende: When in doubt
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28 Aug 04 07:24, BOB SAKOWSKI wrote to ALL:

 BS> When in doubt, stonewall and lie.

 BS>  From Capitol Hill Blue

 BS> Bush Leagues
 BS> White House Blocks Request for Records on Contact With Anti-Kerry 
 BS> Vets
 BS> By Staff and Wire Reports
 BS> Aug 27, 2004, 13:06

 BS> The White House is stonewalling a Freedom of Information Act 
 BS> request for
 BS> records detailing Bush Administraton contacts with Swift Boat 
 BS> Veterans for
 BS> Truth, the GOP-backed anti-Kerry organization that is challenging 
 BS> the
 BS> Democratic Presidential nominee's actions in Vietnam.

 BS> Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed 
 BS> the FOIA
 BS> request on August 24 and received a letter from the Executive 
 BS> Office of the
 BS> President Friday, denying the grounds that it is "exempt from 
 BS> having to
 BS> disclose the information" under the law.

 BS> CREW had asked the White House to release information regarding 
 BS> contacts
 BS> between the Executive Office of the President and members of SBVT 
 BS> and
 BS> others associated with the group, including public relations, 
 BS> advertising,
 BS> detective and fundraising organizations.

 BS> CREW filed the FOIA after learning that President Bush's political 
 BS> advisor
 BS> Karl Rove had claimed not to have spoken with his longtime friend 
 BS> and
 BS> primary SVBT donor Bob J. Perry, in over a year.

 BS> Rove changed his tune Thursday , telling FOX news: "I don't want 
 BS> to leave
 BS> any misimpression. But he's (Perry) not somebody that I've had, 
 BS> you know,
 BS> any extended conversation with in years . . ." Rove denied, 
 BS> however,
 BS> speaking with Perry about SBVT.

 BS> Rove's comments were made the same day CREW discovered that a 
 BS> Republican
 BS> party Committee website in Collier County Florida was soliciting 
 BS> donations
 BS> for SBVT and showing the group's ads, something clearly not 
 BS> allowed under
 BS> the Federal Election Campaign Act.

 BS> "If the White House really had nothing to do with SBVT or its ads, 
 BS> then
 BS> there was no reason for it to deny CREW's request," said CREW's 
 BS> Executive
 BS> Director Melanie Sloan. "The White House could have released the 
 BS> records
 BS> and silenced its critics. Its refusal to respond suggests that 
 BS> there is
 BS> information the White House would prefer not become public."

 BS> The SBVT campaign is financed by two Texas millionaires with 
 BS> longtime ties
 BS> to President Bush and the group's leader, Houston lawyer John E. 
 BS> O'Neill,
 BS> is a longtime GOP operative, having been first recruited by Nixon 
 BS> White
 BS> House lawyer Charles Colson to head a phony veteran's group in 
 BS> 1971 to
 BS> counter then antiwar activist John Kerry's actions.

 BS> The White House did not return calls seeking comment on the FOIA 
 BS> request.

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Gee, that's nice, Bob.  Absolutely ludicrous and hypocritical, but nice
nonetheless.  I guess you conveniently forgot that for every $.13 that the
Swiftboat guys received, the Democrat 527s spent $.87, nearly 7 times as much.
I guess you also forgot that the DNC has been working hand in glove with those
organizations, Move-On.org in particular, to push their agenda of smearing Bush
and the GOP.

All in the news, Bob, and even your liberal media friends have had to report
it, as much as they would rather sweep it under the rug.  All in a day's work,
right, Bob?  Oh, well, that's the way it goes, right?  Thanks for playing
though.  We have some nice consolation prizes for you on your way out.

John 

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