Hillary's Bush Connection
by RUSS BAKER and ADAM FEDERMAN | October
18, 2007
Research support for this story was provided by the
Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. Published in
conjunction with
The Nation. IN THE
CLINTONS' PURSUIT OF POWER, there is no such thing as a
strange bedfellow. One recently exposed inamorata was
Norman Hsu, the mysterious businessman from Hong Kong who
brought in $850,000 to Hillary Clinton's campaign before being
unmasked as a fugitive. Her campaign dismissed Hsu as someone
who'd slipped through the cracks of an otherwise unimpeachable
system for vetting donors, and perhaps he was. The same cannot
be said for the notorious financier Alan Quasha, whose
involvement with Clinton is at least as substantial--and still
under wraps. Political junkies will recall Quasha as the
controversial figure who bailed out George W. Bush's failing oil
company in 1986, folding Bush into his company, Harken Energy,
thus setting him on the path to a lucrative and high-profile
position as an owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and the
presidency. The persistently unprofitable Harken--many of whose
board members, connected to powerful foreign interests and the
intelligence community, nevertheless profited enormously--faced
intense scrutiny in the early 1990s and again during Bush's
first term. Now Quasha is back--on the other side of the
aisle.
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Democratic Consultants
Jack Quinn served as Vice
President Gore’s Chief of Staff, and later as Counsel to
President Clinton. Now he is a partner in a political
consulting and lobbying firm with a close friend of Tom
DeLay, and together, they have represented clients who want
to drill in fragile areas of Alaska, put the screws to
already beleaguered American consumers, and prevent the
introduction of more healthy dairy substitutes in school
lunches. That’s not to say that Jack Quinn is a bad
guy. He’s just doing what lots of folks do in the course of
making a very comfortable living in Washington.
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Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former
president George Herbert Walker Bush's oil company emerged
from a 1950's collaboration with a covert CIA officer. Bush
has long denied allegations that he had connections to the
intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central
Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At
the time, he described his appointment as a 'real shocker.'
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Chalmers Johnson on American
Hegemony
Author Chalmers Johnson -- whose "Blowback Trilogy" includes
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of
American Empire (2000),
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism,
Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (2004), and
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic -- on
why the debt crisis is the greatest threat now facing
America.
The clip is from a new film, "Chalmers Johnson on American
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