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To: pompsander who wrote (750466)	9/28/2006 10:53:25 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

ABC Resurrects Abramoff Scandal...Day Before Rest of Media Will Likely Pile On Posted by Brent Baker on September 28, 2006 - 21:31. Citing a report to be released on Friday, ABC's World News uniquely led Thursday night by resurrecting the Abramoff scandal. Anchor Charles Gibson promised that the report, from a House committee, “will be something of a bombshell in Washington tomorrow,” a forecast the news media can make come true. Gibson asserted that the report will “show White House contacts with now-convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates were far more extensive than the White House has ever acknowledged. And the report will state that prime among Abramoff's lobbying targets, were the man who is now Chairman of the Republican National Committee and Karl Rove.” George Stephanopoulos related how the report will “detail offers from Abramoff and his associates of dinners and concert tickets and other kinds of meals and drinks to White House officials” and provides “circumstantial evidence that Abramoff did get what he wanted on behalf of his clients." But while there “were 450 contacts with White House officials, including nine contacts” with Rove, the report “also shows that Abramoff tried to get 20 people hired in the administration,” yet “he was only successful, though, once.” Five percent success hardly demonstrates inordinate political pull. LIBBER OCTOBER SURPRISES