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To: Road Walker who wrote (338473)	5/23/2007 8:15:48 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1573414

"That stands for the Commie Democratic Conspiracy, right?" I suppose so.

To: Road Walker who wrote (338473)	5/23/2007 9:01:53 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573414

Former White House aide seeks immunity By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer Tue May 22, 8:29 PM ET The former executive assistant to White House political adviser Karl Rove is seeking immunity from prosecution before testifying about administration ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a House investigative committee revealed Tuesday. Susan Ralston, the aide who resigned last fall, told lawyers for the committee this month she would provide information if protected from prosecution. In a sign that Congress' probe into the Abramoff matter is widening, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform also signaled plans to seek further documents and information about the former lobbyist's contacts with the Bush White House from "former and current White House and Administration officials who may have knowledge" about such communications. In a memo to fellow committee members Tuesday, Chairman Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., said lawyers for the panel deposed Ralston, Rove's former aide, on May 10. Ralston resigned her White House post in October following the committee's finding that she had extensive contacts with Abramoff and had accepted tickets to sporting events and concerts from him. The panel's 2006 report also concluded that Abramoff and his associates "had 485 lobbying contacts with White House officials between January 2001 and March 2004," Waxman's memo noted. Ralston had worked for Abramoff before joining the White House in 2001. Abramoff, once a prominent Republican lobbyist and fundraiser, is in prison after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion. Some GOP lawmakers who had accepted trips and donations from him were defeated in last fall's elections. At her May 10 deposition, Waxman's memo said, Ralston said she would invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if asked about Abramoff's contacts with White House officials, including Rove. However, her lawyer, Bradford Berenson, told the committee that if Ralston is granted immunity from prosecution, she would testify about Abramoff's relationships with White House officials and "the use by White House officials of political e-mail accounts" at the Republican National Committee, the memo said. Ralston has "useful information about both of those subjects," Berenson told the committee, and "she is more than willing to provide it to the committee" under "a grant of immunity," the memo said. The use of RNC e-mail accounts by Rove and other White House officials has been questioned in the ongoing inquiry in the administration's firing of several federal prosecutors. Waxman said in the memo: "Providing immunity to a witness is a significant step with legal consequences for potential prosecutions." Before deciding on Ralston's request, he said, the committee "should seek to obtain information about the relationship between Mr. Abramoff and the White House from other sources." Rove, a top GOP political strategist, is a longtime adviser to President Bush.