Incredible! So a White House staffer gets arrested for trying to scam some retail stores and the liberals go batty.
The arrest on theft charges of Claude A. Allen, who until recently was President Bush’s top adviser on domestic policy, was an apparent fall from power that surprised and mystified his friends and former colleagues.
Mr. Allen, who resigned from his post as an adviser to Mr. Bush last month, was arrested on Thursday in Montgomery County, Md., where the police said he had swindled department stores out of more than $5,000 during the last year in a refund scheme.
On Saturday, neighbors and members of his church expressed confidence that he would be exonerated.
“I simply don’t believe it,” said the Rev. Joshua Harris of the Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Md., where Mr. Allen and his family are active members. “I think if we let the whole situation clear, the truth is going to come out about this.”
The police accused Mr. Allen of going to stores on more than 25 occasions and buying items, taking them to his car and then returning to the store with his receipt. He would then pick up the same items he had just bought and return them for a refund, the police said. The incidents were said to have occurred while Mr. Allen was still in his job as Mr. Bush’s domestic policy adviser.
Through his lawyer, Mr. Allen denied the charges, saying there was a mix-up concerning his credit card.
All well and good, IF the charges are true (and that is a big if), then crap happens and the guy got caught doing something stupid. He will pay with his career but someone remind the MSM and the liberals that we didn’t hear this sort of thing coming from them when Sandy Burgler got caught with classified documents shoved down his pants.
Fuck that, he is a thief But the rules dont apply to him because he is a Republican and in the BUSH Administration
I’ll bet anyone this guy will have a pysch eval soon he’s a fucking nutcase and that church is freaking cult.
Maybe his parents should have instilled in him Christ’s teachings of helping the poor and those in need. He lived on Uncle Sam’s payroll instead and stole because of his Republican greed.
Once again the New York Times apologizes for a crooked Republican
Never underestimate the power of greed. Greed lies at the core of “republican values.”
Or how about the Washington Post leading the story with the fact his Mother told him not to be a Republican:
Claude A. Allen has said his mother warned him that as a black man he risked ruining his life, or at least his career, by becoming a Republican. As it turned out, nothing could have been farther from the truth.
The Berger story was always shoved way down to the back pages, never led on the evening news, it was all a misunderstanding you see.
But this story will be on the front pages for days and weeks to come, mark my word. Hell, even John Podhoretz can see it coming:
I’m getting genuinely insane e-mail following a few Atrios postings about my “Who the heck is Claude Allen” posts in the past few days — e-mails accusing me of “lying” to “cover up” for the White House and then cursing me out in the language of eleven year-olds. This suggests to me that the next few weeks are going to feature some wild theorizing according to which Karl Rove and the President assigned Claude Allen to steal from Target. The Bush haters can’t even allow themselves to enjoy their Schadenfreude.
We all know why.
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