Billmon: Beyond Satire

When Josh Marshall reported that the head (at least until last Friday) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, one David Safavian, was arrested today on charges of making false statements and obstructing an IG's investigation, I have to admit, I kinda shrugged it off.

Granted, the guy used to work for Jack Abramoff, and was a guest on one of Jack's luxury golf junkets to Scotland, and tried to help a charitable front group controlled by Abramoff get its hands around some surplus federal property (an early version of Shrub's urban homesteading initiative, I guess) and then lied to investigators about it.

Did I mention that Safavian also used to work for Grover Norquist?