-Caveat Lector- Mail on Sunday (London)
September 5, 2004 HEADLINE: Kitty Kelley: Bush took cocaine at Camp David BYLINE: SHARON CHURCHER GEORGE W. BUSH took cocaine during a holiday at the US presidential summer retreat Camp David, according to an explosive new book to be published next week. The sensational book goes on to allege that Laura Bush, the President's wife, also experimented with illegal drugs. The claims are made in The Family: The Real Story Of The Bush Dynasty, by the veteran American investigative author Kitty Kelley. The allegations about Bush's coke-taking come from the President's former sister-in-law, Sharon Bush, who recently divorced his brother, Neil Bush. She tells Kelley: 'The President did coke at Camp David when his father was President (1989-93) and not just once, either.' Bush is now vehemently anti-drugs and, along with his wife, a born-again Christian. The book also maintains that there is a 'great deal of circumstantial evidence' that the President who as a young politician was opposed to abortion helped arrange for a pregnant girlfriend to have a termination in the Seventies. Kelley, who is said to have spent four years researching the Bush dynasty going back 100 years, also investigates claims that Bush's father, George Snr, had an affair with his English secretary, Jennifer Fitzgerald, a divorcee from Hampshire, and that his wife Barbara was devastated when she found out. The 700-page biography has been eagerly awaited and is expected to be a huge and controversial bestseller in the run-up to the November presidential election, in which Bush last week surged ahead of Democrat challenger John Kerry. Kelley has a fearsome reputation as a celebrity biographer. She has published salacious exposes of Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Onassis and the Royal Family. Kelley says the Bush dynasty's immense wealth and influence have enabled them to cover up scandals ranging from flagrant drug abuse and marital infidelities, to the sexually-transmitted disease afflicting one of the President's brothers, who patronised Asian prostitutes. Sharon Bush says: 'The Bushes don't practise what they preach.' The President has admitted to alcoholism making much of his religious conversion that enabled him to overcome it but has never disclosed any use of illegal drugs. Bush supporters last night described Kelley's allegations as 'outrageous' and deliberately timed to overshadow the critical closing stages of his presidential campaign. A White House spokeswoman said: 'The book appears to be filled with the same trash discredited, disavowed and dismissed years ago.' Kelley's account, however, cites 800 extensive interviews, including with students who knew the President when he was at his exclusive public school, Andover, where she claims he first began to drink heavily as he struggled academically. At Yale, it is alleged he used alcohol to overcome his legendary shyness. One acquaintance, Torbery Macdonald, says in the book: 'Poor Georgie. He couldn't relate to women unless he was loaded.' Another says: 'He went out of his way to act crude. It's quite amazing that someone you held in such low esteem later became President.' Another says he had no interests beyond 'booze and sports'. Kelley claims Bush first used cocaine at university in the mid-Sixties. She cites two sources, one of whom allegedly sold the drug to him. Neither wanted their names used. Sharon Bush says George 'snorted cocaine' at Camp David during his father's presidency 'not once but many times'. Kelley points out that Bush has been evasive about drugs. During his first presidential campaign, Bush said: 'The current FBI form asks the question, "Did somebody use drugs within the last seven years?'' I will be glad to answer that question and the answer is No.' During the posting with the National Guard which saved him from Vietnam, he was suspended from flying. Kelley says documents about this are mysteriously missing from his military records. A former lieutenant tells her: 'There is circumstantial evidence pointing to substance abuse by Bush during this period.' Other acquaintances say that after work the 26-year-old 'liked to sneak out back for a joint of marijuana or into the bathroom for a line of cocaine.' An even more astonishing allegation is that Bush's wife Laura who is seen as the most strait-laced First Lady in recent memory was a marijuana dealer in her youth. Kelley says she was known at Southern Methodist University as a 'go-to girl for dime bags' of the drug. A PR executive, Robert Nash, tells Kelley: 'She not only smoked dope but she sold dope.' Similar allegations have been made to The Mail on Sunday by a Texan who refused, however, to go on the record. The book portrays Laura, however, largely as a victim of her husband's drunkenness. Kelley says Laura fled the family home several times because of his abusive behaviour though police were never involved. Bush, apparently in shame, sobered up in 1986 and went on to join an evangelical group. Kelley says, however, that the real catalyst was plunging oil prices which threatened the family fortune. She also delves into allegations that Bush arranged for a pregnant girlfriend to have an abortion. She says four friends of the woman provided affidavits about this to the respected current affairs magazines Time and Newsweek, though they declined to follow up the allegations. The book quotes a family friend as saying: 'George has no humility whatsoever about being President. He really thinks he deserves the office; that it's his by merit, not default. 'With each political job he's had, he's gotten worse, more arrogant. Now he's unbearable.' Kelley concludes that, like his best friend and ally Tony Blair, his faith inoculates him against doubt. -- www.total411.info www.libertythink.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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