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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-29-07 02:39 PM
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DEAL OR NO DEAL? Abramoff's and Rove's ex-aide has "useful information" about Abramoff, White House
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While DU has been sinking in a sea of distracting blemmings, someone seemingly wants to rat out
Rove, White House officials, Abramoff, and **** if granted immunity.

Who said, "Presidents impeach themselves by their actions"?

Spinoff from: EXIT RIGHT. Sara Taylor, WH political director, Rove Aide RESIGNS? "subpoenas for her testimony" - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x990202
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Memo: Rove's ex-aide would talk if given immunity
7:42 a.m. EDT, May 23, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/23/rove.aide/index.html?eref=rss_politics

• Memo: Ex-aide has "useful information" about Abramoff, White House officials
• Client has info on outside White House e-mail accounts, too, attorney says
• Ralston quit after revelations she was conduit between Abramoff, White House
• Attorney says Ralston will be "comfortable going forward" if granted immunity

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Susan Ralston, a former top assistant to President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove, is willing to tell Congress what she knows about contacts between White House officials and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- but only if she's granted immunity from prosecution, her lawyer has told congressional investigators.

During a May 10 deposition with Ralston, her attorney, Bradford Berenson, told investigators for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that she "has material, useful information" about contacts between Abramoff and his associates and White House officials, according to a memo sent to committee members Tuesday by the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California.

Berenson also said Ralston has useful information about the use of outside Republican National Committee e-mail accounts by White House staffers, which is also the subject of a congressional probe, according to the memo.

However, Ralston will only be "comfortable going forward" if she is given a grant of immunity, .........
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