Robert Parry: The Bush Rules of Evidence

[babylonsister]

The Bush Rules of Evidence
by Robert Parry | Nov 25 2007



In the history of the American Republic, perhaps no political family has been more protected from scandal than the Bushes.

When the Bushes are involved in dirty deals or even criminal activity, standards of evidence change. Instead of proof “beyond a reasonable doubt” that would lock up an average citizen, the evidence must be perfect.

If there’s any doubt at all, the Bushes must be presumed innocent. Even when their guilt is obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense, it’s their accusers and those who dare investigate who get the worst of it. Their motives are challenged and their own shortcomings are cast in the harshest possible light.

For decades – arguably going back generations – the Bushes have been protected by their unique position straddling two centers of national power, the family’s blueblood Eastern Establishment ties and the Texas oil crowd with strong links to the Republican Right.

This reality was underscored again by how major news outlets and the right-wing press reacted to a new piece of evidence implicating George W. Bush in a criminal cover-up in the “Plame-gate” scandal.

Though the evidence is now overwhelming that President Bush was part of a White House cabal that leaked Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity as a covert CIA officer and then covered up the facts, major newspapers, such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, continue to pooh-pooh this extraordinary scandal.

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[acmavm]

1. All I know is when I hear the name bush**, the word traitor comes shooting

into my mind.

It's a family trait.

[tech3149]

2. bush, a four letter word for traitor

Sounds like a good game show question.

[peacetalksforall]

3. But the tears of Sr make the crimes disappear. Such innocents. So pure of heart.

[ladjf]

4. Their cover-ups have been going on for at least three

generations.

[Hissyspit]

5. K&R n/t

[rockybelt]

6. I personally

do not want to wait until he is met at the Pearly Gates and sent down with all his relatives, I want him punished to the max for treason right now! His master, the Dick also---maybe first get Cheney the shooter.
What is the maximum punishment allowed for a traitor anyway?

[Didereaux]

7. To know the Bush Family, study 'Ma' Barker ... Barbara Bushes role model

[Senator]

8. K&R&ImpeachNow