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"There ought to be limits CLICK HERE FOR BOOKS ABOUT GEORGE W BUSH!!! QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "If you don't think it's a gamble to put a man in the White House who
believes we should have guns in church, who thinks the Taliban is a rock band, who was
such a failure as a businessman that his company was nicknamed "El-Busto," who
wants to turn our Social Security system into a Wall Street boiler room, who can't name a
single thing he disagrees with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on, who smeared a bona fide
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The following was written by J. LeBoeuf This is the Bush Cabinet Factsheet, featuring everything you always wanted to know - and more - about a bunch of people you probably didn't even know existed! I've even supplied their Dubya-given nicknames, which in some cases have been classified Top Secret for FOIA-confounding purposes. Never has a President's Cabinet been filled with more
incompetent, non-compassionate, ignorant people whose only claim to fame was their
connection to big oil and big business. These are all members of the "Shadow
Government"
SECOND MOST POWERFUL UNELECTED PERSON IN AMERICA Name/Nickname: Paul D. Wolfowitz / Shadow government Vice
President Conflict of Interest: He's another one of "Daddy's
boys," and could be more comfortable reporting to Cheney than to Bush. In addition,
academic resumes can contain ideological ammunition for a nominee's enemies, as in the
case of U.S. Supreme Court
On Thursday, April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor
Condoleezza Rice appeared before the independent congressional commission investigating
the terror attacks of 911 and delivered what may well be the longest opening statement in
the history of opening statements. Whether this was due to the crushing weight of
her guilty conscience, or a desire to bore people into changing the channel before the
questioning began, only Condi knows for sure. But one thing is certain: nobody should have
to sit through - or read through - the entirety of her fillibustering attempts at shucking
responsibility. That is why yer old pal J has taken it upon himself to condense the
relevant bits from Condi's discursive oratory into easily digestible infobullets,
paragraph by paragraph, point by point: Blah-Blah-Blah for about ten minutes. RICE YET TO ANSWER FOR TWO DISHONEST STATEMENTS Thursday - April 8, 2004 As Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 Commission approaches, she continues to push two distinctly dishonest statements in an effort to blur President Bush's failure to defend America in 2001. First and foremost, Rice continues to make the now-discredited claim that the White House did not have intelligence warning them that terrorists were plotting to use airplanes as missiles in an attack on America. In 2002 she said, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that ... they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile" (1). She said this in spite of the intelligence community having issued 12 separate warnings of such a plan, including a 1999 warning saying that "suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft...into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House" (2). When presented with these facts, she told the 9/11 Commission in January 2004 that she misspoke and that she "regretted" her earlier denials (3). Yet less than four months after her apology, she made the same false claim, writing in a March 22, 2004 op-ed in the Washington Post that "we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles" (4). Secondly, Rice is now saying through spokesmen that she was "not briefed" about terrorists' plans to use airplanes as missiles before 2002, when she began making the false claim that she had no such warnings (5). But even if Rice did neglect all 12 previous intelligence reports, she cannot claim she was never briefed about such a threat, considering she was the top national security official accompanying President Bush to the G-8 Summit in Genoa, Italy in July 2001. There, she and the president were explicitly warned that "Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill world leaders by crashing an airliner" into the summit (6). Sources: 1. National Security Advisor Holds Press Briefing, 05/16/2002, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1880274&l=27236. 2. "Report Warned Of Suicide Hijackings", CBS News, 05/17/2002, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1880274&l=27237. 3. "As Rice Testimony Nears, Tone Remains a Question", New York Times, 04/07/2004, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1880274&l=27238. 4. "9/11: For The Record", Washington Post, 03/22/2004, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1880274&l=27239. 5. "As Rice Testimony Nears, Tone Remains a Question", New York Times, 04/07/2004, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1880274&l=27238. 6. "Italy Tells of Threat at Genoa Summit", Los Angeles Times, 09/27/2001, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1880274&l=27240.
IF YOU’RE IN FAVOR OF BUTTONED-DOWN SECRECY IN THE BUDGET OFFICE YOU’LL LOVE THE NEW OMB DIRECTOR President Bush announced Thursday that Josh Bolten would become the next director of the Office of Management and Budget, taking over from the outgoing Mitch Daniels. http://www.whitehouse.gov/ He’s genetically predisposed to silence. Bolten, 48, is the son of a Seymour Bolton, a CIA agent who worked in covert espionage. Both Josh and his father were cozy with George H.W. Bush. Though Bolten is one of the most powerful policymakers in the world, he has said he likes his own life undercover and prefers not to do interviews. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/06/national/06LETT.html He is one of the closed-lips defendants named in the Dick Cheney secret energy task force lawsuit, filed by Judicial Watch. The Bush administration refused to hand over documents that relate specifically to Cheney and Bolten, among others. http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/10/10182002/reu_48741.asp Bolten already has experience doling out money, at least to corporate interests. He chaired the "Domestic Consequence Group," a blandly worded euphemism for the quiet economic crisis group in the White House which helped co-ordinate the $15 billion airline bailout in 2001. http://financialtimes.com/aoa/FT31X0OK0SC.html Not everyone is comfortable with him. An aide to Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), who, under tremendous pressure from Bush, sold out the patients' bill of rights, claims that Bolten "screwed us over." According to the New Republic, the man who muscled Norwood into bashing patient’s rights was none other than the hush-hush Joshua Bolten. According to the New Republic article (August 2001), Bolten is involved in almost every aspect of policy in the White House, and to some extent has superseded Mr. Bush's longtime adviser from Texas, Karl Rove. "The anonymous fourth man in the inner circle of Bush's staff, Bolten is far less well-known than Andy Card, Karl Rove...but inside the White House, few doubt his importance," the magazine's Ryan Lizza writes. "The three spheres of White House policy-making --Margaret La Montagne's Domestic Policy Council, Larry Lindsey's National Economic Council, and Condoleezza Rice's National Security Council -- all report to him. Technically, Bolten is even Karl Rove's immediate superior. Since Bolten is the traffic cop for Bush's briefings, no policy matter comes before the president without his blessing. According to White House congressional lobbyist Nick Calio, `He's got his hands in virtually everything at the White House, though. All policy matters report to him eventually.'" A QUESTION FOR GEORGE W: Will Bolten change his secretive style, to one of greater transparency, access, and openness when he runs the budget office? Bolten was one of the quiet strategists who created the Office of Homeland Security, along with White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. and Tom Ridge. http://slate.msn.com/id/2066989/ "He is very secretive, but has his fingerprints all over President Bush's new $600 billion economic plan, the legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security and just about every other domestic policy concocted in his powerful little corner deep in the West Wing," wrote the New York Times. IF YOU LIKE THE ECONOMY, IF YOU THINK THE TAX CUT PLAN IS A DANDY IDEA YOU’LL LOVE JOSH BOLTEN Josh Bolten is a key architect of the Bush economic plan. http://www.stern.nyu.edu/News/news/2002/december/1213nytns.html "The president continues these crazy economic policies, not based on anything but the president's whim," said Rep. Bob Matsui (D-CA) California, in a May 2003 Democratic press conference aired on C-Span. Well, Representative Matsui, meet your new budget director. He developed the whim. "But there is a method to their madness, and that is to change the social structure of this country," said Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) "...They want to roll back the social programs that are the safety net for this country." MEMO TO JOSH BOLTON: Putting a trillion dollars into the hands of the wealthiest people in America will not buy washing machines and cars. The president's stubborn and failed approach to reviving this economy is turning into a nightmare. "I've heard so many times that Josh Bolten is effectively the Secretary of the Treasury in absentia, because of the power that he wields on economic policy," said one senior Senate Republican leadership aide, reported by Sun National, May 9 2003. HATCHET MAN: According to the Washington Post (Dec. 7, 2002) Bolten was involved in pushing Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and National Economic Council director Lawrence Lindsey to resign, after Bush decided he needed stronger messengers to communicate with voters. "Bush reached the final decision after a meeting Wednesday with political adviser Karl Rove, Chief of Staff Andrew Card and deputy chief of staff Joshua Bolten." http://www.primarymonitor.com/news/stories2002/1207_treasury_2002.shtml PROTECTING U.S. DRUG MANUFACTURERS: "Paragraph 6" -- Josh Bolten is believed to have been heavily involved in the Doha para 6 negotiations, on behalf of PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing of America.) In the USA, the big PhRMA fire power came from the White House, and US negotiators had almost no real negotiating freedom. Though Bolten was, characteristically, silent, there was plenty of evidence that Bush's own economic team (Gary Edson and Josh Bolten) was deeply involved in the negotiations. What exactly is "Paragraph 6?" Think of it this way: Prescriptions for World's Poorest Will Stay Unwritten According to Guardian Newspapers, 2/19/2003: The pharmaceutical lobby provided nearly $60m in funding in the recent mid-term US elections, helping the Republicans win key seats...Now, as one official puts it, "it's pay-back time; the industry is calling in its favours." At issue was how the rules should be interpreted to allow manufacturers to export copycat drugs to countries too poor to make their own, such as most within sub-Saharan Africa, which is in the grip of the Aids pandemic. BOLTEN AND THE BUSH CAMPAIGN PROMISES: He was a key architect of George W. Bush campaign, according to E.J. Dionne, of the Brookings Institution. http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript747.html During the campaign, even Republicans became offended by what some considered "doubletalk," following a meeting with Bolton. According to "National Politics" (Oct 2 1999) a senior House Republican aide said staff members who talked to Bolten, who was at that time Bush’s Policy Director, about the Republican plan for the earned-income tax credit, Bolten indicated no opposition to it. But during the campaign, Bush turned on them, accusing House Republicans of trying to "balance their budget on the backs of the poor." Bush campaigned on the assertion that he was an inclusive, peacemaking, compassionate conservative. Even before he was elected, some disagreed. "We were double-crossed," the aide said, after the meeting with Josh Bolten. http://www.courses.psu.edu/hd_fs/hd_fs597_rxj9/gop-bush.html According to CNN AllPolitics.com September 4, 2000 "Quietly running Bush’s campaign policy meeting was Josh Bolten, the Bush campaign's 45-year-old policy director." Bolten and his staff were cagey about the prescription drugs plan. "Gore plans to give an economic speech that's sure to hammer home his charge that Bush's tax cut is so big it doesn't leave room for the drugs plan. Bolten's forces will send out spreadsheets saying that isn't so." During the campaign, Bolten’s policy plan became so comprehensive that the Democrat Leadership Council (DLC) complained that Bush had poached ideas from their plan. http://cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2000/09/11/serious.html JOSH BOLTEN’S OFFICIAL BIO From 1999 to 2000, Josh Bolten was Policy Director of the Bush-Cheney 2000 Presidential campaign and the Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition. From 1994-1999, he was Executive Director, Legal & Government Affairs for Goldman Sachs International in London. In the previous Bush administration, Josh was General Counsel to the U.S. Trade Representative and Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs. Previously, he was International Trade Counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. CONCERNS ABOUT JOSH BOLTEN Mitch Daniels, who he will replace, was not an ideologue; he did his job as a number cruncher and a fiscal conservative. He made enemies on the hill when he was snippy about their pork habits. But, in the end, he overcame his fiscal conservativeness to serve the Bush team in their quest for more money for their cronies (ala tax cuts). He didn't look too comfortable in that part of the job. Now the picture of Bolten: Ideologue and agenda pusher/manhandler. There will be a huge conflict in this particular position between the job (reporting budget projections, transparent management of government funds) and the political role he has been playing. This means he is a perfect fit for the Rove political machine – but perhaps not such a great fit for the rest of the country who deserve to actually have an office of budget and management, not an office of Enron accounting to make our economy "appear healthy." Secrecy has no place when he is handling OUR money. AND A WORD ABOUT BOLTEN’S FATHER, CIA ESPIONAGE AGENT "When Bush (George H.W. Bush) saw the AP story in the Washington Star, he asked for an internal CIA review to verify the story (it was true), and if it would 'cause problems for Helms.' Helms lied to a Senate committee about the CIA's role in subverting Chilean democracy and would later be convicted for contempt of Congress. "After investigating, Bush assistant Seymour Bolten reported the exposure of Helms' false testimony to the Warren Commission would probably cause Helms 'some anxious moments,' though not 'any additional legal problems.' But Bush was assured that a 'slightly better' story had resulted from an Agency phone call to AP 'protesting that Martin's story was sloppy.' Additionally, Bush was told that an unnamed journalist had 'advised his editors...not to run the AP story.' "Bolten complained to Bush: ‘ This is another example where material provided to the press and public in response to FOIA requests is exploited mischievously and is distorted to make headlines.' One might more accurately describe it as an occasion where Bush’s CIA pressured one news outlet to back away from an accurate story while using a connection in the press corps to suppress it in another (Bowen 55-6)." and http://www.fair.org/extra/best-of-extra/cia-bush.html Aaah, secrecy, and the New American Century.
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