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Article: DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MEHLMAN EVASIVE ON ABRAMOFF'S DEFENSE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 16, 2006
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The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release:
Yesterday on CNN, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman gave evasive explanations on whether, while he served as Political Director in the Bush White House, he helped the clients of convicted former GOP superlobbyist Jack Abramoff by having a State Department employee fired. Three times during his interview, Mehlman said "I don't recall." [CNN, 10/15/06] Despite Mehlman's statement yesterday on CNN that he "let the decision makers make the decisions" on issues important to Abramoff's clients while he was White House Political Director, hundreds of pages of recently released emails tell a different story. In ...