Another Bush Lie Shot All To Hell - Activists' expulsion cited as Bush rule

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Activists' expulsion cited as Bush rule

2005 FORUM IN DENVER

By Bruce Finley

Denver Post Staff Writer

Article Last Updated: 03/03/2007 12:19:11 AM MST

A former White House official who ordered three activists expelled from a

2005 Denver public forum with President Bush says it was White House policy

to exclude potentially disruptive guests from Bush's appearances nationwide.

The former official, Steve Atkiss, revealed the policy Friday in an

interview after two volunteer bouncers identified him and a current White

House staffer, Jamie O'Keefe, as the officials who ordered the so-called

Denver Three activists sent away from the event.

The activists had done nothing to disrupt the forum, and two of them sued

over the incident.

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Friday's revelations by the bouncers appeared to contradict a White House

spokesman's assertion in 2005 that volunteers were responsible for ejecting

the Denver Three - self-described progressives Alex Young, Leslie Weise and

Karen Bauer. Only Young and Weise are involved in the federal lawsuit.

That spokesman, Scott McClellan, who resigned last year, could not be

reached for comment.

McClellan at the time also said: "The White House wants a diversity of

voices at these events."

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The incident happened March 21, 2005, shortly before Bush arrived for the

forum at the Wings Over the Rockies museum in east Denver.

Young, Bauer and Weise obtained tickets from the office of then-U.S. Rep.

Bob Beauprez. They arrived in a red Saab hatchback with a bumper sticker on

the back: "No more blood for oil." They also wore "No more lies" T-shirts

under their jackets.

Klinkerman pulled them out of a line and told them to wait, then called

Casper, who had heard from other Republican Party officials who deemed the

three suspicious.

The Secret Service later investigated whether a volunteer committed a crime

of impersonating a federal agent. The U.S. attorney's office declined to

press charges, giving no explanation.

The Bush administration has run into trouble elsewhere after critics were

ejected from Bush appearances. People in North Dakota complained they'd been

put on a list of guests to be barred from a 2005 event. The ACLU sued on

behalf of two West Virginia residents arrested in 2004 after refusing to

remove anti-Bush T-shirts at a campaign event.

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