-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- With Contempt For Our Democracy And The American People The Right Wing Elite That Tried To Bring Down Clinton Now Seek To Manipulate The "Coronation" Of George W. Bush America's First Families A careful review of the history of the New Right movement, that stretches back at least two decades, reveals a very deliberate and coordinated effort by people such as (notorious Clinton hater)Richard Mellon Scaife, Paul Weyrich and the Coors, DeVos(Amway), Hunt(Oil), Koch(Oil), Krieble(Loctite), Olin & Van Andel(Amway) families, to extend their influence throughout the higher levels of our society. In fact, oilman George Bush Sr. comes from this very same class of people. His tenure as CIA Director is only a small part of a long history with the Intelligence community, which has included Richard Mellon Scaife, and the other New Right leaders. It is highly unlikely that Bush would have been appointed CIA Director, without some prior experience within the Agency. Indeed, there have been reports that Bush was possibly a CIA operative since at least 1961. What's more, the Bush Family's CIA affiliation appears to originate with the OSS, as Robert Lovett, the business partner of Bush's father Prescott, was an OSS Officer, along with Scaife's father Alan. Prescott could not, officially at least, be involved in the OSS, since he had his assets seized under the Trading With the Enemy Act, for his partnerships with Nazi industrialists. It was Robert Lovett and the Committee bearing his name that recommended the creation of the CIA as the post-WWII descendant of the OSS. After the war, Lovett and another of Prescott's business partners, Averell Harriman, were directly involved with the CIA. Given that many of Prescott Bush's cronies enjoyed a long association with the CIA, it is likely that Prescott was involved with the Agency as well. (Those interested in looking more deeply into the elite roots of the OSS and the CIA should read about Yale's "Skull and Bones" society. Web-master's note: This is a well-researched article, although the speculations require a grain of salt). In the seventies, while George Bush Sr. was in the wings for the CIA Directorship, Richard Scaife ran Forum World Features, a CIA front for a European propaganda operation. There are also reports that Scaife was likely involved in the Heritage Foundation's funding of Iran-Contra, along with Edwin Feulner(see the above photo). Contrary to what he claimed, Vice President Bush Sr. was clearly "in the loop" of Iran-Contra, as Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's notes demonstrated. In recent years, the CIA Inspector General's Report confirmed that the Contras were trafficking in cocaine, under the watch of Oliver North and the CIA. It is now known that the Contras used North's planes(financed in part by Joe Coors) for their drug-running, and there are further questions about the role North's team and the CIA played in this enterprise. During this period, both Presidents Reagan and Bush appointed Mellon Scaife to the US Advisory Committee for Public Diplomacy, which oversaw the US Information Agency. A key component of the White House Spin Machine, the USIA worked hand in hand with Walter Raymond's interagency propaganda operation to manipulate US public opinion in favor of the Reagan-Bush foreign policies. [See Robert Parry's "Lost History" for details]. In 1983, the USIA's director, Charles Z. Wick, held a fundraiser in support of the Iran-Contra activities. With the help of Scaife's lieutenants, Wick collected over $400,000 in private funds from the likes of the Smith Richardson and Olin Foundations [See A.J. Weberman's site plus the National Security Archive's "Iran-Contra Collection", March 1983]. Later, Frank Shakespeare (see the above Heritage photo) served as the USIA's Director. "A Shadow Government" The truth of the matter is that the CIA does not exist to serve the American people, the American Government or even the President. The real mission of the CIA is to serve the interests of American Big Business. In particular, the CIA obeys the dictates of its inner circle--the Bushes, Dulles, Harrimans, Lovetts, Rockefellers and Scaifes--who have always been front row center. One can argue that the CIA has been so caught up in serving this Client--with decades of supporting military coups, backing Right Wing Dictators amenable to US business interests, and waging propaganda wars[See Mark Zepezauer's "The CIA's Greatest Hits"; Odonian Press, 1994]--that the Agency has woefully neglected its stated mission of collecting and analyzing intelligence information. This was most embarrassingly obvious when the CIA failed to predict the demise of the Soviet Union. While the CIA has greatly influenced the affairs of other countries, it has been constrained by federal law from doing the same within our borders. In "Lost History"[pg. 60-61], Robert Parry describes how, in order to skirt these restrictions, Walter Raymond left his CIA post in 1983 to set up his domestic propaganda operation--an interagency taskforce. Likewise, Scaife, Coors and the other New Right Leaders used their tax-exempt foundations to fund the construction of a network of private organizations, in part to perform CIA-type operations within American borders. In fact, it was Richard Nixon who first called for the building of such an "establishment" to counter the rise of Liberalism--especially the Civil Rights and Anti-War movements. Paving the way was Paul Weyrich, who had founded the Heritage Foundation in 1973, and later its sister, the Free Congress Foundation. After Nixon's resignation, it was William Simon(see above photo), Nixon's Treasury Secretary, who led the charge towards accomplishing this goal. Today, Heritage sits at the head of this array of organizations. The Right Wing Network has been called a "Shadow Government" by the House Democrats, as well as by several investigative journalists. In his George Magazine interview by JFK Jr., Scaife himself dubbed Larry Klayman's Judicial Watch a "Shadow Justice Dept.". This is the Scaife-backed organization that has filed several lawsuits against the Clintons. The Heritage Foundation is considered the most influential organization in the Republican Party. Most notably, the Heritage team drafted the massive policy paper in 1981, "The Mandate For Leadership", that provided "the blueprint" for the Reagan Administration. Years later, this team likewise would make a major contribution towards Gingrich's "Contract With America." What then is the hierarchy under Heritage that orders the roles of these different New Right Think Tanks? Are all major strategies decided by the Heritage Board, with members such as Scaife, Coors, Simon and Van Andel at the helm? Do these plans then get passed to the rest of the Network, through a chain of command? Does the Washington Legal Foundation, whose members include Barr, DeLay, Helms and other Radical Right Congressman, follow the dictates of the Heritage board in targeting the activities of Congress? Similarly, does the Federalist Society, the exclusive legal club with members such as Ken Starr, Orrin Hatch, Robert Bork and Judge Silberman, ultimately serve the Heritage board in targeting the Courts? What roles do the other Scaife/Koch/Coors organizations play in this plan? How do Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation and the Council for National Policy serve to integrate the agenda of the Religious Right with the rest of the Right Wing Network? As a co-founder of the Council for National Policy and other organizations, Sen. Jesse Helms has played an integral role in building and managing the Right Wing Network [See Hedrick Smith's "The Power Game"; Ballantine Books, 1989; pp.64-66]. There are literally dozens of these Think Tanks, societies and publications, whose functions probably extend well beyond their purported mission statements. Some of the most important Think Tanks include the American Enterprise Institute, the Bradley Organization, the Heartland Institute, the Hoover Institution, the Hudson Institute and the National Legal Center for the Public Interest. Of course, leading the charge for the Right is an army of lobbyists. Pushing the Right in the Media and on the Campuses "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media." --Former CIA Director William Colby In the past, the Right Wing penetrated the Media through such CIA programs as Operation Mockingbird, which had placed most of the US Media leaders on the CIA payroll. In the 70's, the Church Report to the Senate exposed this and other illegal domestic CIA operations, along with naming such Mockingbird operatives as Katherine Graham(Washington Post), Henry Luce(Time) and William Paley(CBS). After this embarrassment, it was necessary for the Right to use its own private network to replace Mockingbird. As a result, there is now the Cato Institute, with Rupert Murdoch on the Board with ATT/TCI's Malone. Cato serves the purpose of infusing the Media with Right Wing Propaganda, along with such organizations as Accuracy in Media(AIM), the Western Journalism Center and the Independent Women's Forum(See Main Page for Details). Through this network of foundations and organizations, the New Right backers have succeeded in extending their influence over the Media, to such a degree that it is now preposterous to hang the Media with the old adjective of being "liberal". On a parallel course, the New Right movement has been pushing its agenda on the nation's colleges, not only by establishing campus societies & publications, but also by sponsoring professors and students with right wing views. As stated in a People For the American Way article, "To this end, Bradley, Olin, Scaife, Smith Richardson and others funnel millions of dollars into conservative university programs, university chairs, lecture circuits and right-wing student publications, and promote conservative research in the media to legitimize their positions. They have created and continue to support networks of conservative professors, such as the National Association of Scholars and the Madison Center for Educational Affairs, whose 'Collegiate Network' links 70 conservative student papers." The Madison Center for Educational Affairs was created by a merger of the Institute for Educational Affairs(IEA), founded by Irving Kristol and William Simon, and the Madison Center, founded by Bill Bennett and Allan Bloom("The Closing of the American Mind"). The Failed Republican Revolution In addition to building this network, the New Right leaders have been gradually working to pack the Judiciary with judges that are in-line with their political philosophies, as virtually all of the Reagan-Bush appointments were drawn from the Federalist Society. This is the elite legal organization that was founded by Antonin Scalia, the far right Supreme Court Justice. What is most frightening is that, had President Bush been re-elected, followed by the Republicans taking Congress in 1994, these very families would then have had their tentacles in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of the US Government. Had this Triple Crown Dream been realized, it is quite likely that the precious checks and balances in our Constitution would have been undermined by a President, Congress and Judiciary that danced to the drum of the New Right backers. Even if the Right Wing Elite did not have a total stranglehold on the Judiciary by 1992, it certainly would have after more Bush appointments. This would have been the real "Republican Revolution", not just the Newt Gingrich-led takeover of Congress--a pale accomplishment by comparison. Dream Denied: The Enemy Who Stole The Big Crown It could be that the drive to remove President Clinton from office is merely the most overt action of this plan, by a group of very wealthy, radically conservative citizens, to one day hold all three branches of the government in their hands. However, in the case of the drive to impeach and remove, it was more of a reaction. In this context, one can see how this group--in particular, Richard Mellon Scaife--were angered and crestfallen as they saw their hopes of the Triple Crown recede when President Bush lost the 1992 election to then Governor Clinton. Perhaps it was their obsessive intensity behind this goal of dominating all three branches of government that they then re-focused on driving from office the man who had foiled this long sought goal. Fortunately the Triple Crown Dream has still not been realized, since that would likely result in far worse abuses than the House Republican Majority ramming through the Impeachment. Indeed, this may be the only way that a total coup d’etat can be achieved in America--slowly and deliberately over time, with the aid of vast sums of money. Adding weight to this concept is this excerpt from "The Power Game", in which Paul Weyrich outright characterizes the Conservative leaders as "monarchists". Paul Weyrich, a leading New Right conservative, agreed that there had been "no Reagan Revolution", but he suggested that divided government was the real reason: "The Republican Party spent $1 Billion on national elections during the past decade," he said. "The conservative movement spent another $200 million, and business PACs and individual contributors over $300 million, supporting national Republican candidates during the same period. That is more than $1.5 billion spent on national elections with very little to show for it. Why? The first reason is that many conservatives are monarchists at heart. They love the Presidency. They think that if you own the Presidency, that is all that really counts...A few conservatives have come to the conclusion that Congress is just as important."[p. 642--Smith cites Paul Weyrich's article, "Reagan's Illusory Revolution," Washington Post, 8/23/87, p. C1)]. Weyrich's timely article, published in the aftermath of the 1987 Iran-Contra hearings, reveals that the New Right Leaders had realized that to be true "monarchists" their goal should be to "own" not only the Presidency, but also the Congressional Majority. Unstated in his article, but certainly within the New Right Leaders grasp by that point, was the Judiciary, which had been increasingly stacked with Federalist Society members. What's more--ever since Bill Clinton took office, Weyrich has done his best to block any judicial appointments by this Administration, through his Judicial Selection Monitoring Project. It's obvious then that Weyrich and his Right Wing benefactors, such as Mellon Scaife, have had the Judiciary squarely in their sights for years. >From this historical perspective, it appears that as far back as 1987, Weyrich and others have been calling for the "monarchists" to aim for the Triple Crown. Which makes sense, since at that time the Reagan-Bush leadership was being taught a harsh lesson about not having control over all three branches of the Government. While the Triple Crown goal may seem fantastic, one must keep in mind that the backers of the New Right are very wealthy, spoiled individuals, who really have nothing left to obtain in life, other than making America the country they would like it to be. The Scaifes/Kochs/Coors have had all the time and money to allow them to chase the craziest of dreams. The Coronation of George W. Bush Which brings us back to the present state of affairs. As this web-site has outlined, there have been concerted efforts by Richard Mellon Scaife and his associates to bring down President Clinton (See Main Page for Details). Some of these smear campaigns were co-opted from those of early Arkansan enemies of then-Governor Clinton, and some were born directly from the Bush Administration. This was especially true in the investigation of Clinton's passport files, and also L. Jean Lewis' promotion of the early Whitewater investigation. What's more, Linda Tripp has been accused, not unreasonably it seems, of being a Bush operative. It is suspected that Tripp was left in the Clinton White House by the previous Administration, for the purpose of digging up dirt on the Clintons. It is clear that the same group of Right Wing Leaders that tried to oust Clinton are now behind the "coronation" of George W. Bush as the next President of the United States. A search of the Federal Elections Commission's filings reveals that all of the Heritage Board members, who are on record with the FEC, are supporting Bush Jr's candidacy, including Chairman David R. Brown, Preston A. Wells and William "Jerry" Hume. Naturally, this should come as no surprise, since Jeb Bush is a former Heritage Board Member. In fact, Jeb is a major player in the Right Wing Network, where he has headed his own foundation with backing from such prominent right wing Floridians as Wayne Huizenga and George Wackenhut(who are also George W. Bush supporters). Wackenhut is, of course, the ex-FBI agent (and close friend of Bush Sr.) who founded the security and privatized prisons corporation that bears his name. Some claim that Wackenhut Industries is in actuality the privatized arm of the CIA, much as the ring of Right Wing Foundations is considered to be a non-profit extension of the CIA [See Weberman]. It is thought that the Right Wing Network was created in part to enable private funding of covert activities--key examples being Iran-Contra, and the anti-Clinton campaigns. Other Right Wing kingpins are backing George W. Bush, including the Hunt Oil family, the Coors family, the DeVos and Van Andel (Amway) families, Loctite heiress Nancy Krieble(a big-time backer of Heritage and GOPAC) and the JM Family PAC. Also on board with individual donations are David and Julia Koch, while the Koch Family PAC likewise has made ample contributions towards Bush Jr's candidacy. Nevertheless, there have been indications of a possible erosion of solidarity within the Republican establishment. Most curious is that Paul Weyrich has been quite vocal in his support of Steve Forbes as the "only conservative candidate who can win". Can this endorsement also be taken at face value, or does Religious Right leader Weyrich have other reasons for not joining in the "coronation" of Bush Jr? For example, is Weyrich unsure of the durability of Bush's candidacy, especially given the ongoing concerns over Bush's character issues? Or is Weyrich merely humoring Forbes in his long-shot Presidential bid, hoping instead to bring Forbes on as another Right Wing sugar daddy, especially as a future board member of Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation? Or is this part of an overall strategy by the Right Wing leadership to cover all their bases for later consolidation after the primaries? Meanwhile, back at the Bush camp, George W. already has his own "Shadow Cabinet". His foreign policy advisors include the Hoover Institution's George Shultz and his staff. As the Secretary of State under Reagan, Shultz was in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair. Tellingly, Shultz and his team serve under Hoover board member Richard Mellon Scaife. Another Bush advisor is Richard Armitage, Reagan's Assistant Secretary of Defense. Like George Shultz, Armitage was once in the thick of Iran-Contra as a member of the Restricted Inter-Agency Group (RIG) to which Oliver North reported. George W.'s head speechwriter is Jack Gerson, who was a senior advisor at the Heritage Foundation. Also in Bush's corner are Richard Perle, from the American Enterprise Institute, and Robert Zoellick, from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, both part of the Scaife/Heritage Network. But the hand of Scaife on the Bush candidacy is most obvious in the form of Heritage operative Bill Bennett, the Bush advisor who is a close friend of Scaife's, as well as being a Scaife Foundation board member. The "mastermind" and leader of George W.'s campaign is Karl Rove, who previously worked with infamous dirty trickster Lee Atwater on George Bush Sr.'s 1988 campaign. In the years since, Rove ran a political consulting firm for the Tobacco Industry, which is the biggest soft money contributor to the Republican Party. Recently, Rove has distinguished himself as an opponent of First Amendment Rights on the Internet. Rove bought up scores of domain names, such as "bushsucks.com" and "bushbites.com", to prevent their use against his candidate. He also has taken legal action against the web-master of the parody site, GWBush.com, to try to drive the site off the Internet. Commenting on the GWBush site, George W. made the frightening statement, "There oughta be limits to freedom". In all honesty, does this sound like a man who truly represents "The Party Of Less Government"? Perhaps the most powerful figure in the Bush camp is C. Boyden Gray. A major figure in the Federalist Society, Gray also heads his own think tank, the anti-environmentalist Citizens for a Sound Economy. As President Bush's close friend and legal counsel, Gray placed obstacles in the way of Lawrence Walsh's Iran-Contra investigation. Later, he would play a shadowy role in the Get-Clinton campaigns. As the heir to a huge Tobacco fortune, nobody personifies the Republican Establishment better than C. Boyden Gray. With so many of his father's cronies guiding him, George W. appears to be running a "Read My Lips" Campaign, that is about saying whatever "it takes to win". While it always behooves the American voter to be skeptical of any surface appearances, it is especially true in the case of any Bush campaign. As both Republicans and Democrats have emphasized, the next President will be appointing up to four Supreme Court Justices, as well as selecting several judges in the lower courts. Senator Orrin Hatch, the Federalist Society Chairman, has stated that up to half of the Federal Judiciary may be up for appointment in the next decade. If Bush becomes the President who makes these Judicial appointments, it is a virtual certainty that even more power will be concentrated in the hands of the Right Wing Elite. For all these reasons, it is vitally important to consider what a Bush Presidency, and a possible Republican sweep in an accompanying election cycle, would mean for the future of our Democracy. Is the Triple Crown still within reach in 2000? <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! 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