Word: karle
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...fizzled. Nothing like the 60 court cases some predicted have materialized. Democrats, beset by their own ethics scandals in West Virginia and Louisiana, have all but abandoned attempts to nationalize corruption as an issue. Even last week's revelation that Abramoff had 82 contacts with Bush adviser Karl Rove registered barely a blip on the capital's political seismograph...
...contact with them. The report cites more than 400 instances of Abramoff's team lobbying the White House. This is a one-sided account though, as it relies on e-mails from Abramoff and his fellow lobbyists; in many instances he discusses meals with White House senior advisers like Karl Rove, and it' s unclear if those ever actually took place. The White House has long maintained that Abramoff has exaggerated his ties and contacts to the Bush Administration...
...hesitate to ask me for anything you might need." Sounding like a high school nerd with a crush on the captain of the cheerleading team, he brags about and overstates his few actual interactions with Rove. A March 2002 e-mail says "I was sitting yesterday with Karl Rove, Bush's top adviser, at the NCAA basketball game discussing Israel when this e-mail came in. I showed it to him." And White House officials dispute this account, saying Rove didn't sit with Abramoff at the game but merely stopped by and said hello to him. Ralston seemed...
...this helps explains why Presidential Advisor Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney have also shown up for campaign fundraisers near the Mississippi River. "It's seen as one of the top seats that's going to switch," says Donna Hoffman, a University of Northern Iowa political science assistant professor...
...Bush, however, was delighted the two of them were back on their talking points. "Good job," he told Musharraf as they walked away from the press conference. But the tensions in the relationship remain. And the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, said Thursday he plans no immediate cuts in the 20,000 American troops battling a growing Taliban threat. Nor will Friday's spin control reverse the worsening war there...