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To: Ilaine who wrote (28160)	5/3/2002 10:35:53 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 281500

The only secrets I'm interested in are those that should be in the public domain, such as presidential papers going back 20 years, and 99% of the so-called "national security" euphemism that really just covers incompetency and criminality, when facts eventually come to light. This is the arrogance of power, that hides past deeds and misdeeds, without even the semblance of an reasonable excuse. Government business is the people's business. Privacy belongs to citizens, not to government or public servants. So, believe what you will, until you see the current secrecy matching previous skullduggery of Bush Senior. The links are legion, that cover Bush going back to Prescott, and their activities, pro and con. I'm not a fan of the purple prose in this one example - the purpose is partly entertainment. But amidst the litany there are things that merit further investigation, some of which I've done, with increasing alarm. This is Bush 41, as the current individual is obviously titular. kmf.org "Why do we fight the Bush power cartel with a mere book? We have no illusions of easy success, but we were encouraged in our work by the hope that a biography might stimulate opposition to Bush and his policies. It will certainly pose a new set of problems for those seeking to get Bush re-elected. For although Bush is now what journalists call a world leader, no accurate account of his actual career exists in the public domain. The volume which we submit to the court of world public opinion is, to the best of our knowledge, the first book-length, unauthorized biography of George Bush. It is the first approximation of the truth about his life. This is the first biography worthy of the name, a fact that says a great deal about the sinister and obsessive secrecy of this personage. None of the other biographies (including Bush's campaign autobiography) can be taken seriously; each of these books is a pastiche of lies, distortions and banalities that run the gamut from campaign panegyric, to the Goebbels Big Lie, to fake but edifying stories for credulous children. Almost without exception, the available Bush literature is worthless as a portrait of the subject. Bush's family pedigree establishes him as a network asset of Brown Brothers Harriman, one of the most powerful political forces in the United States during much of the twentieth century, and for many years the largest private bank in the world. It suffices in this context to think of Averell Harriman negotiating during World War II in the name of the United States with Churchill and Stalin, or of the role of Brown Brothers Harriman partner Robert Lovett in guiding John F. Kennedy's choice of his cabinet, to begin to see the implications of Senator Prescott Bush's post as managing partner of this bank. Brown Brothers Harriman networks pervade government and the mass media. Again and again in the course of the following pages we will see stories embarrassing to George Bush refused publication, documents embarrassing to Bush suspiciously disappear, and witnesses inculpatory to Bush be overtaken by mysterious and conveniently timed deaths. The few relevant facts which have found their way into the public domain have necessarily been filtered by this gigantic apparatus. This pro blem has been compounded by the corruption and servility of authors, journalists, news executives and publishers who have functioned more and more as kept advocates for a governmental regime of which Bush has been a prominent part for a quarter-century."

To: Ilaine who wrote (28160)	5/3/2002 10:53:51 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It's more than any minor selling of German bonds, or oil business type conflict of interest. It's backroom enterprise at the state level.... geocities.com "... the Bush Family's CIA affiliation appears to originate with the OSS, the WWII Agency that preceded the CIA. Robert Lovett, the business partner of Bush's father Prescott, was an OSS Officer, along with Mellon Scaife's father Alan and their Mellon relatives. In fact, Paul Mellon was the OSS Station Chief in London. Prescott could not (officially at least) be involved in the OSS, since he was a Director of Union Banking. It was a major embarrassment for the Bush Family, when in 1942 Union Banking's assets were seized under the Trading With the Enemy Act, for collaborating with Nazi industrialists. [1] . (A few weeks later, another Bush venture had its assets seized as well). After the war, Prescott's partner Lovett headed a Committee bearing his name that recommended the creation of the CIA as the descendant of the OSS. Averell Harriman, another of Prescott's partners at "Brown Brothers Harriman", was likewise directly involved with the CIA. Given that many of Prescott Bush's cronies enjoyed a long association with the Agency, it is likely that Prescott was involved with the CIA as well. (Those interested in looking more deeply into the elite roots of the OSS and the CIA should read about Yale's "Skull and Bones" society -- a.k.a "the Bonesmen" [2] )"