Another Hot Potato

Rollcall reports that a House report "Details 485 Contacts Between Abramoff Team and White House Officials." And, of course,

Democrats and Republicans on the committee immediately began to fight over the report's findings, with each side portraying the results in the context of its own political needs.

Apparently, the documents only show Abramoff's side of the story, being based on his billing records. While he offered officials all kinds of favors, there is no evidence that they were accepted.

If these had been contacts between Al Qaed and Saddam's regime in Iraq, you can be sure that there would be no evidence of involvement in their separate operations. I have to wonder how the Republicans got suckered into releasing this a month before the elections.