Froomkin, of all people, may have (I’m gonna say inadvertently) buried a lede in his Wednesday column. Quoting an AP piece on the subject of Susan Ralston’s Dance of the Seven Veils of Immunity, there is the line

Waxman’s memo is worth a read. As Waxman notes: “In September 2006, Chairman Davis and Ranking Member Waxman released a staff report summarizing what the Committee had learned from a review of billing records and e-mails provided to the Committee by Mr. Abramoff’s former lobbying firm, Greenberg Traurig.

Ralston, of course, was Abramoff’s former top aide who he conveeeeeniently handed off to the Dark Lord when one K. Rove needed a top aide when they completed their hijacking of the US executive branch. Think of Ralston as the hijacker who guarded the cockpit door against passengers trying to bang it open with the food cart.

But what makes this particular story jump out at me is that a few weeks ago Lambert ran across a record of some Abramoff-related emails as we were digging into the [ILLEGAL] private communications net we’ve been calling “gwb43.com” run for the Republican National Committee [RNC.com] by Smartech Corp out of Chattanooga TN. [with backup storage at Coptix.com also of C’noogie—wouldn’t want Jeffy to think we’d forgotten him!]

In the header was an Abramoff message—I forget who it was to, might have been Ralston herself—and the return address caught my eye for having the letters “gt” in it.  Read more