How Quickly He Forgets

Nope, Tom Feeney never wrote a letter for Jack Abramoff. Just for one of his clients.

WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Feeney insists he never helped convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, but in 2003 Feeney was among several lawmakers who wrote to the Energy Department opposing changes to a federal program that also were being fought by an Abramoff client.

It was just a few months later that Feeney, just like Nye, was rewarded with the trip to Scotland. He's going down.

Need more - see here, here , here and here.

Does Feeney survive? I don't think so and I'm pretty sure we're going to see a US Attorney scandal expansion here too.

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The Missing Bullet Points

In a review of the documents from the US Attorney scandal, I find the Plan the most interesting. It is laid out "Step 1, Step 2" and so on. I've posted a copy of the Kyle Sampson email with the plan below:



I included this because what is becoming increasingly important in this scandal are the people whose names were whited out of Step 1. In the preciseness of responding to the request, information was provided only on the eight known attorneys. If Ryan and Cummins were part of step 1, they would be on this list because their names were included in the request.

Note - they are NOT on the list yet there are still three names missing. This is a question we should all be asking: Who were the other three US Attorneys included in Step 1?

I know there are three missing and that one is not Cummins because in a September 13 email from Sampson to Harriet Miers, Cummins was identified as a "USA in the Process of Being Pushed Out.

Under "USA's We Now Should Consider Pushing Out, the six - Charlton, Lam, Chiara, Bogden, and McKay - are identified. There are three whited out lines. Once again, if Ryan were on that list, his name would have appeared.

Based on prior actions where a USA is removed to impede an investigation, it makes sense that US Attorney Paul Perez in charge of the Middle District in Florida might be one of the missing. His is the District covering the Tom Feeney investigation.

I don't know for sure but the three missing names are a question Congress should be asking. Why aren't they?

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In light of this

TPMuckraker is reporting that Renzi's office contacted ousted US Attorney Paul Charleton about an investigation into the Congressman just one month before Charleton was fired. Of course, Renzi's offices were finally raided by the FBI last week.

I'm getting more certain that it's no coincidence that US Attorney Paul Perez, Middle District Florida, resigned in March 2007. His office would be in charge of the investigation into Tom Feeney.

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