You cannot hide the truth forever, especially when it has been photographed. Last week, both photos and emails with Bush and disgraced lobbyist, John Abramoff, were released to the press. The NY Times was the first to print the following picture from a 2001 meeting with Abramoff, Bush, Rove, one of Abramoff’s clients, Chief Raul Garza of the Kickapoo tribe, and many other powerful people:
This follows on the heels of the emails that ThinkProgress was first to publish last week between Abramoff and Kim Eisler, the editor of Washingtonian. This is one of the excerpts from the emails:
HE HAS ONE OF THE BEST MEMORIES OF ANY POLITICIAN I HAVE EVER MET. IT WAS ONE IF [sic] HIS TRADEMARKS, THOUGH OF COURSE HE CAN’T RECALL THAT HE HAS A GREAT MEMORY! THE GUY SAW ME IN ALMOST A DOZEN SETTINGS, AND JOKED WITH ME ABOUT A BUNCH OF THINGS, INCLUDING DETAILS OF MY KIDS. PERHAPS HE HAS FORGOTTEN EVERYTHING. WHO KNOWS.
And we are supposed to believe Bush when he said on January 26th, “You know, I, frankly, don’t even remember having my picture taken with the guy. I don’t know him.†Perhaps, it is because Bush has such a good track record at telling us the truth? You know, if one of the most, if not the most, powerful lobbyists in America was responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars to my campaign and millions of dollars of campaign funds to my party, I think I would probably know him.