A copy of Waxman's letter to Susan Ralston is below. It says that Jack Abramoff (and associates) had more than 400 contacts with the White House!





Susan Ralston is a key figure in the corruption scandal plaguing the Republican Party. For those who don't know, she was Jack Abramoff's Assistant prior to the theft of the 2001 election. When Karl Rove moved into the White House, he was looking for a "trustworthy" assistant and Jack Abramoff, being the stand-up guy that he is, offered his very own assistant.....Susan Ralston.

We have long suspected that she is key to this criminal enterprise and now we may be getting closer to the truth.

UPDATE: Clammyc has provided a link to a diary written back on May 10, 2006 discussing the missing security logs and bogus claims by the WH that Jack Abramoff had only visited 2 times. It's worth another look.

UPDATE #2: Kossack, EasyRider, has provided an excellent link to Raw Story with more info on Susan Ralston:

Susan Rawstory's ROVE AIDE CALLED TO TESTIFY TOOK HIS MESSAGES A former senior aide to Bush adviser Karl Rove who reportedly gave testimony to a grand jury investigating the leaking of a CIA agent's identity answered phones and took Rove's messages, RAW STORY has discovered. According to a 2004 Salon piece, she also had a role with one of conservative Washington's leading men, Grover Norquist, in which she took messages for Rove and called Norquist to screen callers. "For two years, the assistant who answered Rove's phone was a woman who had previously worked for lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a close friend of Norquist's and a top DeLay fundraiser," Salon reported. "One Republican lobbyist, who asked not to be named because DeLay and Rove have the power to ruin his livelihood, said the way Rove's office worked was this: 'Susan took a message for Rove, and then called Grover to ask if she should put the caller through to Rove. If Grover didn't approve, your call didn't go through.'"

Update #3 Page 2 is back with the redacted phone number. Hat tip to Kossack geso for making it happen!