Friday Document Dump

The fourth man indicted in a New Hampshire phone-jamming scheme — in which Republican operatives jammed the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts in a 2002 Senate race — will argue at trial that the Bush Administration and the national Republican Party gave their approval to the plan, according to a motion (.pdf) filed by his attorney Thursday.

Judicial Watch, a conservative good-government watchdog group, has received documents showing that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff had seven previously undisclosed appointments for meetings at the White House.

The documents were released by the Secret Service late Friday afternoon, a time when Washingon figures traditionally release bad news. Judicial Watch had obtained a court order for all logs of Abramoff’s visits to the White House.

Bush denies that the CIA has disbanded the unit that was hunting bin Laden. Of course, that’s a lie.

According to Gallup, 2/3’s of Americans are cut-and-run cowards with no resolve that want to hand a huge victory to the terrorists. No word on whether the same two-thirds object to the President not knowing that the CIA has closed down their bin-laden hunting unit.

Someone tell Fox News water doesn’t run uphill.

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.