WH Aide caught stealing from Target

This story is hilarious, yet depressing. Despite his six figure salary and what Administration officials described as a "keen moral compass," former White House aide Claude Allen was caught running a scam where he would return stuff to Target that he didn't pay for. It's depressing because Allen was a Bush Administration posterboy (he was the highest ranking African American in the Administration). He even sat next to Laura Bush during the State of the Union.


("I know I didn't pay for the stereo, that's why I'm returning it.")

I think Allen's political record is more embarassing than his retail fraud. Allen was a huge homophobe- he was a big backer of banning gay marriages and he failed to get nominated to the Federal Judiciary partly due to the fact that he referred to a political opponent as vulnerable because he was "in with the queers." This didn't stop the Bush Administration from apponting him deputy secretary of HHS where he pushed abstinence-only policies, and questioned the promotion of condom use.