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March 14, 2006
White House Fraudster Allen's Existence Erased
The Bush administration has vaporized Claude A. Allen. Usually I'm reluctant to invoke Orwell analogies for fear of sounding cliche.
Lucky for me, the Bush administration occasionally provides the mandate to do so.
Until sometime very recently, the biography of disgraced Bush policy adviser Claude Allen’s could be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/results/leadership/bio_10.html. Today, visiting that link results in a 404 (“no file found”) error page. Funny, administration bios 9 and 11 are online, but as far as can be determined now from the White House’s Web site, Claude Allen might never have worked there.
Fine.
One could easily make the argument that, since Allen abruptly left his $161,000 position as domestic policy adviser to President Bush in February, one month after being charged with defrauding a Target retail store, his bio would be pulled since he is no longer a White House employee.
The only problem with this argument is that, while Allen’s “bio_10.html” file is gone, the active page “bio_9.html,” is the bio of former FEMA director Joe Allbaugh, who left office in March 2003 and has been succeeded twice.
So, as uninteresting as Allen’s White House bio may be (at least, compared Allen’s emerging profile as a man who defrauded at least 25 stores of more than $5000), here is our screen capture and cached version of that page.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Posted by MJuhre at March 14, 2006 11:41 AM