Bush AWOL payoff scam

[SHRED]

I heard on the RR Show recently that a military officer (I forgot his name) was given a lucrative government contract about the time the Shrub-AWOL issue was brewing.

Anyone have links?

[havocmom]

1. Makes sense. Gonzales got the gig as A.G. for dealing with the dui

It's all racketeering and crooks protecting crooks.

[ComerPerro]

2. basically, the "forged document" scandal all but killed the AWOL issue

pretty much everyone in the country knows that Bush was a daddy's boy coward in Vietnam, and didn't even show up for that. Only the true believers still think he was a "fighter pilot in the Vietnam war". And they will never be converted.

[Turbineguy]

5. I seem to recall

that document was out there for years, only the guy who "forged" it said it was a reconstruction of the original document which had gone missing. His information came from the lady who typed up the original. It was only when CBS news "forgot" to mention the providence of the "forgery" that the problems started.

[solara]

3. Here you go

http://www.gregpalast.com/

[tanyev]

4. I think this is what you're looking for.

Ben Barnes, GTECH, Texas Lottery.....Harriet Miers.

Palast: Bush Hit-Woman Behind Prosecutor Firings
by Greg Palast
from the original reports for BBC Television and the Guardian (UK)

The Mister Big behind the scandal of George Bush's firing of US Attorneys is not a 'mister' at all. The House Judiciary Committee has released White House emails indicating that the political operative who ordered the hit on prosecutors too honest for their own good was Harriet Miers, one-time legal counsel to the President.

But this is not the first time that Miers has fired investigators to protect Mr. Bush.

In 1999, while investigating Governor George Bush of Texas for the Guardian papers of Britain, I obtained an extraordinary, and extraordinarily confidential, memo to the US Attorney's office in Austin. It disclosed that, in 1997, Governor Bush secretly suggested to the chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission that she grant a contract to the client of a Bush ally.

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