sometimes it's hard to figure out which is more prevalent in the Bush administration - political lies, incompetence or just ordinary theft. One thing that is clear is that a bunch of people are getting richer as long as Dick and the Bush remain in office. So you were wondering who the latest Bushie to be accused of wrongdoing is. Well here's Doug Ireland's take on Claude Allen in the LA Weekly in 2005:
"President Bush’s appointment of his new chief domestic-policy adviser, Claude Allen — a notorious homophobe, a ferocious enemy of abortion and an opponent of safe-sex education who for years has been one of the AIDS community’s principal enemies — is a huge victory for the social reactionaries of the Christian right.
Allen, who was named to his new position in the White House last week, had previously been a top aide at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He was placed there by Karl Rove as a watchdog on then–HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, who had an exaggerated reputation as a "moderate" and who wasn’t entirely trusted by Rove to carry out — by administrative order — the social agenda of the Christian right, a key part of Rove’s successful plan to mobilize millions of Christer voters for Bush’s re-election.
Known as RoveÂ’s enforcer, Allen wielded a heavy, censorious and punitive hand at HHS." (For more on this)
For Doug Ireland's post-arrest update on Allen, see
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