Flushing the Evidence
So yesterday, Josh Marshall reported that Reflections Photography, the company that handles photography for the White House, had erased photos of Jack Abramoff and President Bush from their website.
He talked to the company president and found out that not only had the photos been deleted from the web, but that she’d been deleting the photos from the master discs! Sounds like they’re flushing all the evidence before the public gets to it…
It’s kinda like the end of Goodfellas, when Henry gets busted by the feds on his way out of the house. You remember?
For a second I thought I was dead. But, when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they’d been wiseguys, I wouldn’t have heard a thing. I would’ve been dead.
Karen obviously heard all the racket, because in the next scene she’s frantically cutting up bags of cocaine and flushing them down their toilet.
I wonder if Jack’s wife started shredding all the pictures of Abramoff with the president when the scandal broke. Those pictures, of course, are the kind of thing that gave a guy like Abramoff power– by way of credibility– in the first place. And he knew it.
He and Grover Norquist set up photos with the president for their Native American clients (at $25k a peice) for the same reason. In one case, Jack told one of his clients, who was running for an elected position in the tribe, that a picture with the president would go a long way toward bolstering his credibility with his people.
I laugh when I think about Abramoff’s wife, Pamela, shredding Jack’s pictures with the president– the pictures that proved Jack was somebody– and Jack getting home and flipping out, just like Henry Hill did when Karen flushed all the coke. Maybe they’d have a similar exchange:
Jack: Where’s the stuff, Pamela?
Pam: I shredded it.
Jack: You What? Why did you do that Pamela?
Pam: They would’ve found it.
Jack: That was worth sixty thousand dollars Pam. We needed that. We were dependent on that! That’s all we got!
Pam: They would have found it!
Jack: They would never have found it! That was all we had Pamela…
Just when we thought things couldn’t get any more gangster, the GOP has started to destroy evidence. What are the chances that Abramoff winds up whacked? Anyone?