It is worth noting that we pay people who are employed in our intelligence services to be competent at what they do, which entails making useful assessments of the meaning of information as well as simply gathering it. However, given that there was a close personal relationship between Pappy Bush and more than simply a few Saudis, and keeping in mind that Pappy Bush was once head of Central Intelligence, as well as Vice President during the era of the Soviet War in Afghanistan--this, too, stinks to high heaven, as does nearly every major transaction of the Bush clan since Prescott Bush came squawling out of his mother's womb in Columbus, Ohio, one hundred ten years ago.
Funny, but here in the Columbus area, with so many staunch Republicans, and a Republican administration ensconced in the State House, no one ever stresses the Bush connection. Perhaps that's because Flora and Samuel Bush were the 19th century equivalent of upwardly mobile trailer trash, and the steel industry in Columbus (once quite big, and still significant) resented the use of political connections to make a killing in the steel industry during the Great War. Of course, i could just be imagining it all.
