Doolittle Does A Lot Of Talking
Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA), who may or may not be near the center of the Jack Abramoff-related Justice Dept. probe, sat down with the Sacramento Bee for an hour-long interview on the condition that the entire transcript of the interview be made public.
Doolittle admits to personal friendships with both Abramoff and Brent Wilkes, the lobbyist at the center of the Duke Cunningham investigation.
Doolittle comes across as frustrated but not defiant by the surfacing of his name in both scandals. He clearly doesn't believe he did anything wrong and blames others for creating the innuendo of his involvement. In talking about both Abramoff and Wilkes, Doolittle does not trash them (a la Bob Ney), but expresses disappointment in them both. Some may interpret Doolittle's nice words on Abramoff as a sign he's hoping not to draw the ire of the disgraced lobbyist who clearly is cooperating with Justice's investigation.
Doolittle has quite the "friendship" pattern.
Doolittle admits to personal friendships with both Abramoff and Brent Wilkes, the lobbyist at the center of the Duke Cunningham investigation
So Doolittle admits he is friends with corrupt criminals but claims that none of that rubs off on him? Sorry, but I still live in a world where you can judge a person by his friends.