Abramoff Arithmetic, Boolean Edition

Evil Bobby connects the dots between protasis and apodosis:

Evil Bobby: Fighting Evil With Evil: Stonewall at the Whitehouse

There are any number of matters of legitimate inquiry and public concern involving Mr. Abramoff and his White House dealings that might not rise to the level of a criminal prosecution. Mr. Abramoff has admitted bribing public officials. He collected at least $100,000 for Mr. Bush's reelection. He took David H. Safavian, then the chief of staff at the General Services Administration and later the administration's top procurement official, on a luxury golfing trip to Scotland; it was, as Mr. Abramoff said in an e-mail, a "total business angle."

What I bolded in there is really what bothers me the most. Abramoff admitted to bribing officials in his plea bargain agreement. In order for Abramoff to be convicted of bribing public officials there has to be public officials accepting bribes. With the White House stonewalling on Abramoff’s relationship to the president in such loopy maneuvering, it has become all too apparent that people within our executive branch were on the receiving end of Mr. Abramoff’s bribes.

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