Sunday, August 29

BARNES BRIBED TO KEEP BUSH'S SECRET?


Wow. Greg Palast has gone the essential one-further on the former-TX-LtGov Barnes-got-Bush-into-the-National-Guard-as-a-favor story:

 That’s far from the end of the story. In 1994, George W. Bush was elected governor of Texas by a whisker. By that time, Barnes had left office to become a big time corporate lobbyist. To an influence peddler like Barnes, having damning information on a sitting governor is worth its weight in gold – or, more precisely, there’s a value in keeping the info secret. 

Barnes appears to have made lucrative use of his knowledge of our President’s slithering out of the draft as a lever to protect a multi-billion dollar contract for a client.  That's the information in a confidential letter buried deep in the files of the US Justice Department that fell into my hands at BBC television.


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