Claude Allen

One of the President's key "advisers" during Hurricane Katrina resigned to spend "more time with my family." In fact, Claude Allen left the administration because he'd been arrested for a shoplifting/fake return scam that netted him at least $5,000 before he was caught.

Allen was a favorite at the White House because he was a black Republican who spoke out for abstinence. Recently, he took his views to a fantastic extreme. From The Nation:

In February, a hundred CDC researchers on sexually transmitted diseases were summoned to Washington by HHS deputy secretary Claude Allen for a daylong affair consisting entirely of speakers extolling abstinence until marriage. There were no panels or workshops, just endless testimonials, including one by a young woman calling herself "a born-again virgin."

Get that? Researchers--that's scientists--had to fly to Washington for a day of theology. How moronic is that? Can you imagine what they said to one another in the halls?

I've got a theory about Claude Allen, one that connects his preaching for abstinence and the crime. I say: The thing you say you hate is something you might otherwise love. Maybe something you do love. More than love: need.

In blunt language, I wouldn't be surprised if Claude Allen used that $5,000 to buy sex.

You think?