{"id":78,"date":"2006-03-13T22:48:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T03:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/13\/misunderstandings-bush-appointee-style\/"},"modified":"2006-03-13T22:48:35","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T03:48:35","slug":"misunderstandings-bush-appointee-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/13\/misunderstandings-bush-appointee-style\/","title":{"rendered":"“Misunderstandings” Bush appointee style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an update on the\u00a0bust of the Bush\u00a0abstinence education mastermind.<\/a><\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n

The lawyer for Bush’s former top domestic policy advisor, Claude Allen, told a Maryland\u00a0court that this case\u00a0was simply “misunderstandings.”<\/p>\n

“Misunderstandings?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s Washington Post<\/a><\/strong> notes: “Police said they have been able to document 25 instances in which Allen tried to obtain refunds for items he was seen picking up from shelves at Target and Hecht’s stores in Montgomery by using receipts for identical items he had bought earlier.”<\/p>\n

Allen was collecting a salary of more than $160,000\u00a0during the\u00a0period of the following sprees, as reported in the Washington Post:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 On the morning of Dec. 24, Allen was filmed selecting a $237 Kodak printer that he paid for with his Visa card. Hours later he obtained a refund at a Target store in Germantown for an identical printer.
\n\u00b7 On Dec. 30, Allen bought a $60 jacket, a $25 pair of pants, two shades worth $15 each and two unspecified items worth $2.50 each. Hours later, he received a $125.94 refund for identical items.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00b7 On Jan. 1, he purchased an $88 RCA stereo at a Target store in Gaithersburg. About an hour later, he was videotaped selecting an identical stereo at a Rockville Target store, and he obtained a refund using a receipt that corresponded to the one from Gaithersburg.”<\/p>\n

Of course, the key to this case is the hidden identity of those $2.50 items that Allen hustled.<\/p>\n

I fear the paltry sums involved may cost Allen his reputation as a visionary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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