CREW FOIAS WHITE HOUSE CONTACTS WITH SWIFT BOAT VETERANS GROUP
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24 Aug 2004 // Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) with the White House asking it to detail its contacts with individuals connected to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT).
CREW asked the White House to release information regarding contacts between the Executive Office of the President and: any member of SBVT; SBVT donors Harlan Crow, Bob J. Perry and Paraclete Armor & Equipment; Merrie Spaeth, who has coordinated the public relations efforts of SBVT; any employee of Stevens Reed Curcio & Poltholm, the advertising agency that has made SBVT’s commercials; Rupprath and Associates, the detective agency that gathered the SBVT affidavits; SBVT fundraiser The McIntosh Company; and Kenneth Cordier, a former member of the Bush campaign’s veterans steering committee.
The White House has claimed no involvement with SBVT or the group’s anti-Kerry campaign ads, a claim undermined by recent revelations that Mr. Cordier, who appears in one of SBVT’s advertisements was on the Bush campaign’s veterans steering committee at the time he made the ad, and by the fact that a Kerry campaign volunteer picked up a flier for SBVT at the Bush-Cheney ‘04 campaign offices in Gainesville, Florida.
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