In case you missed the wall-to-wall media coverage of this:
Barbara Dehl, whose daughter Cassie's tragic 1999 murder led to the passage of Idaho's Cassie's Law, is facing kidnapping and drug charges.
Barbara Dehl, 49, conspired with her live-in boyfriend and another man to abduct a young couple after the three found money, jewelry and drugs missing from Dehl's safe, police said in court documents.
If your memory banks trip up a bit at the mention of Barbara Dehl:
In 2002, Dehl was appointed by Attorney General John Ashcroft to serve on the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women. She attended a ceremony at the White House the next year when President Bush announced initiatives to combat domestic violence.
Although Ms. Dehl's ties to the Bush adminstration seem scant, one has to wonder what the media reaction would have been if Bill Clinton or Janet Reno had even whispered her name in public, much less appointed her to a national committee.
Irony or coincedence: You can purchase Cassiefoundation.org's domain name for $400....
What's this, something like the third or forth person associated with or specifically lauded by the Bush administration who's been busted on some type of crazy charge? There was the minister in Kansas or Iowa who's an accused sex offender, and I think there were one or two people with some kind of drug ties.
By comparison, what's the score on people touted by Clinton? I know Sammy Sosa sat next to Hillary during one of the SOTU speeches, but he hasn't even been as strongly implicated in steroid abuse as Barry Bonds. After that, who?
Posted by: DHinMI | May 02, 2005 at 18:29