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by Walter Alarkon - 07/15/08 9:42 AM ET

A Department of Homeland Security adviser once offered a Kazakh man access to top Bush administration officials in exchange for a $500,000 donation to President Bush’s presidential library, reports Andrew Tilghman, who links to a Times of London video of a meeting between the adviser and the Kazakh. The White House distanced itself from the adviser, Steven Payne, saying that though the president has probably met him, Payne has never worked in the White House. The Associated Press’s Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier, already under fire for changing the style of the news organization

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