With all the vigor of the terminally righteous the GOoPers regularly remind us that the gubmint of Beloved Leader is wholly and completely Holy and Righteous. Yeah, as if.
The Bush administration's top federal procurement official resigned Friday and was arrested yesterday, accused of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation into Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings with the federal government. It was the first criminal complaint filed against a government official in the ongoing corruption probe related to Abramoff's activities in Washington.
The complaint, filed by the FBI, alleges that David H. Safavian, 38, a White House procurement official involved until last week in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, made repeated false statements to government officials and investigators about a golf trip with Abramoff to Scotland in 2002.
It also contends that he concealed his efforts to help Abramoff acquire control of two federally managed properties in the Washington area. Abramoff is the person identified as "Lobbyist A" in a 13-page affidavit unsealed in court, according to sources knowledgeable about the probe.
Ask Martha Stewart...the one thing that those pesky investigators hate more than anything is being lied to, especially when, it seems, that they know they're being bullshitted. Remember Preznit Arresting Development's statement last week:
Our goal is to get the work done quickly. And taxpayers expect this work to be done honestly and wisely -- so we'll have a team of inspectors general reviewing all expenditures.
Words that ring hollow when the top guy in charge of all money being spent is about to be indicted for various and sundry things related to being fundamentally honest. Not just any guy...the TOP guy in the money giving-out process. Another crony caught. The FBI has to be on the 1600 Crew shitlist right around now... I guess they didn't get the "leave the cronies alone" memo from Rove's office.
This is going to ratchet up the Abramoff-Delay game like never before. This guy was threatening OMB and GAO people with "Hill" pressure for not being nice to his buddy Jack, gee wonder who he might have been talking about? Apparently the word was that the US Attorney in Miami was not interested in hearing Abramoff sing in relation to anything he might have had on Delay, unless Delay was somehow connected to selling pr0n. [That's the man-date of the US Attorney there: Porn, not drugs, terrorism, bank robberies, white collar crime...nothing but Porn. Our tax dollars haaard at work for Abu Gonzales' agenda. How quaint.]
I have to wonder what the headline are going to say the day that Patrick Fitzgerald announces his indictments. It might be the equivlent of the Carny in the Capital! Coming soon to a blog near you!
