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Article: Photos of Bush With Abramoff Are Withheld; White House Calls Pictures Irrelevant to Ethics Inquiry [Correction 1/31/06]
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- The Washington Post
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- January 24, 2006
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Several White House officials have been briefed about pictures of
President Bush and Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff taken since 2001
but will not release them on grounds that they are not relevant to
the ongoing money-for-favors investigation, aides said yesterday.
"Trying to say there's more to it than the president taking a
picture in a photo line is just absurd," White House spokesman Scott
McClellan told reporters. Bush, he said, does not recall meeting
Abramoff and did not do any favors for the disgraced lobbyist.
Abramoff, who recently pleaded guilty in the growing bribery and
corruption scandal, was with Bush about a dozen times when pictures
were taken by the official White ...