Bush with Allen, his domestic policy advisor.
A former adviser to President Bush was arrested this week in Maryland and charged with swindling two department stores out of more than $5,000 in a refund scam.
Montgomery County police said Claude Allen, 45, was arrested Thursday and charged with carrying out a felony theft scheme at Target and Hecht’s stores. He was released on his own recognizance.
Allen resigned without explanation in early February as Bush’s top domestic political adviser. Allen had long been a darling among the conservative right — and Bush had even nominated him to be a federal appeals court judge in 2003, but Democrats blocked the move.
In announcing Allen’s resignation, Bush called him a “trusted adviser” who helped “develop policies that will strengthen our nation’s families, schools and communities.”
He was arrested for a fraudulent returns scam at a Target store January 2nd. Subsequent investigation uncovered $5,000 in similar returns over the previous year.
He resigned February 9th.
Allen made $161,000 in his role as Bush’s top domestic policy adviser, according to government records.
WOW he really blew it
He was also proposed by Bush for a lifetime appointment as a circuit judge (he was blocked by Democrats because he is truly a religious fundamentalist), and he was in charge of the Katrina response team in the White House while the Prezduh was on vacation.
He was also involved in a little something called the Arabian Horse Association.
Nothing surprises me anymore.
BTW… if you get a chance, take a listen to “This American Life” on NPR this week.
Here’s the neo-con-artist defense of Bush’s proposal for Allen’s appointment to the federal bench. From the National Review: —
“The true basis for their opposition is not that he will act to implement his own agenda, but rather — given his traditional values, belief in family, and ideals of personal conservatism — that he might not warmly and enthusiastically embrace theirs. It is their political agenda that drives their animus against not only Claude Allen’s jurisprudence, but against his person — for them there is no difference.”
Ain’t nothing like traditional American values among politicians, e.g., greed, theft, avoiding responsibility.
How does a man like this become a trusted advisor to the president? This is highly disturbing. I can only hope his otther “trusted” advisors are better people.
I’ll take the job for that amount. Probably wouldn’t last long. That’s about 3k per week. I’ll take one week vacation or two and make 3-6k, quit, and go on another vacation before going back to my original job.
I’ll even have money left over to stop by Target and Hecht’s and do some shopping.
Alex
Do you mean advisers like Libby, Rove, Rice, and Meyers?
Mr. Fusion, if nobody believed you about Rice they may now.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/03/11/coca.rice.ap/index.html
I wonder if Condi knew it was covered in cocoa leaves?
Hey, she can at least say she didn’t inhale!
Wasn’t Libby the VP’s advisor?
Why, Christopher — do you think we need a reiteration of arguments you would rather cast as straw-men. Trundle back to my post #3 — and see that’s exactly what your buddies at the National Review did when they defended Bush’s nomination for this sluggo as federal judge.
Can you imagine how many bubbas are sitting around at the Petroleum Club, this morning — waiting for whichever NASCAR race to start — and saying, “Phew. I’m glad we didn’t win that one!”
rus
That is a good one. I was unaware of it. It might have been even better if she had been given a dress made from hemp with brocaded pot seeds.
I was thinking more along the lines that Rice was Bush’s National Security adviser before becoming Secretary of State. If she didn’t know about the lack of WMDs, the true use of those aluminum tubes, and the after the war political conditions in in Iraq then she is a bigger boob then her bra lets on. If she knew and allowed the war to happen, then she too has lied. And then there is the domestic spying done by the NSA under her watch.
Mr. Fusion, Yes, I remember Condi’s comments that we will find WMDs in 2 weeks, etc. It never came. Of course we gave them 6 months warning also. If I had something illegal and the US government told me they were going to search my house in 6 months I would make sure my house would be clean as a whistle. He did have those rockets that went beyond the distance limitations. It comes down to what IS the definition of WMD. But most people probably agree that isn’t what was inferred by our government. Hey, we did find those jets buried in the sand that we didn’t know about. Who knows who and what is buried in the sands of that country.
I wish the cease fire agreement made after the Gulf War was publicly available on the internet. That way we can see what was agreed upon, how it was suppose to transpose, and the consequences for not fulfilling the agreement. Serious violations of cease fire agreements usually result in the continuation of war–sad as it may seem. Anyway that’s another topic. Maybe someone can help with a link to this cease fire agreement.
rus
I think we might disagree some with your WMD point, but the next question about the actual peace terms raises a good point.