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Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Far worse than a 25-year-old money-losing land deal...
Posted by Jill | 10:17 AM
...is what Greg Palast is reporting: that while George W. Bush was governor, he paid for Ben Barnes' silence about pulling strings to get him into the Texas Air National Guard by essentially paying a bribe: giving Barnes' client, GTech Corporation, a no-bid state contract for which Barnes was paid a cool $23 million.

Read it all here.

Palast may be the bete noire of the right, but one thing he isn't is sloppy. Palast does his homework. The document he cites isn't subject to the kind of typography Monday-morning quarterbacking that the CBS Jerry Killian documents are; they are clearly typed in that good old-fashioned American typewriter type, Courier.

It certainly fits the pattern. The Bush family, which Maureen Dowd so colorfully refers to as the "WASP Corleones", are very loyal to those who do for them. You can argue forgery about the CBS documents all you want to, but there is a constant drumbeat drip, drip, dripping out now which indicates a clear pattern of Bush Family string-pulling and threats to those who dare to cross them. It's right there, from their connections to the Swift Boat Liars, to the so-called debunkers of the CBS memos, to the intimidation of Sharon Bush, to Matt Lauer's frothing-at-the-mouth interviews with Kitty Kelley the last two days on the Today show. The Bush family is corrupt to the core, and the sooner we ask them to leave, the better.

(via Pandagon)
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