Bush lies about how well he knows Jack Abramoff.

It is obvious that Mr. Abramoff was no stranger to the Bush White House from the very beginning. Well before the President took office, Mr. Abramoff was named to the Bush transition team for the Department of the Interior. He may not have had any discernible qualifications to oversee that department's appointments, but he had clients on tribal reservations and in the Marianas Islands whose businesses were regulated by Interior officials.

He has been a friend of Karl Rove, the deputy chief of staff and Presidential political advisor, for more than a quarter-century. His personal assistant soon showed up as the personal assistant to Mr. Rove. His associate David Safavian, since indicted, became the administration's chief procurement officer. He told his friends and clients that he could get into the Bush White House -- and get whatever he wanted there.

Are we really expected to believe that George Bush was not intimately connected to a man who is friends with his most important advisor. If Abramoff is friends with Karl Rove then of course he is known by George Bush. And who named him to the transitions team? Does this stuff happen with no input from George Bush? Is that what we are expected to believe?

The reason these pictures are being surpressed is because they show just how close Bush and Abramoff were. This White House stone walls justice at every turn and it is past time that the main stream media called them on this criminal interference!