Greg Palast reports: "Bush was elected governor of Texas by a whisker. By that time, [former Lt. Governor Ben Barnes who now regrets helping Bush get into the National Guard] had left office to become a big time corporate lobbyist [and he] appears to have made lucrative use of his knowledge of our President's slithering out of the draft as a lever to protect a multi-billion dollar contract for a client.... Barnes, says the Justice Department document, made a call to the newly elected governor's office and saved GTech's state contract. The letter said, 'Governor Bush ... made a deal with Ben Barnes not to rebid [the GTech lottery contract] because Barnes could confirm that Bush had lied during the '94 campaign.'
"In that close race, Bush denied the fix was in to keep him out of 'Nam [and] 'Barnes agreed never to confirm the story [of the draft dodging] and the governor talked to the chair of the lottery two days later and she then agreed to support letting GTech keep the contract without a bid.' And so it came to pass that the governor's commission reversed itself and gave GTech the billion dollar deal without a bid. Take a look at the letter yourself - with information we confirmed with other sources - at http://www.gregpalast.com/ulf/documents/draftdodgeblanked.jpg -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Media Watch Project - http://democrats.com/media MikeHersh.com - http://www.mikehersh.com BushOccupation.com - http://www.bushoccupation.com Speak Out! Beat Bush! - http://www.cafeshops.com/antibush04 --- / o o \ ===OO=====OO================================================http://g0lem.net/PhpWiki/ (NewsWiki) - http://pnews.org/ (Home) http://pnews.org/vortal/ (Portal) Myth Busters/Mid-East http://g0lem.net/vortal/ (Portal) Insane Planet/Progressive http://g0lem.net/portal/ (Portal) Bad-Ass Truth/Economics http://pnews.org/portal/ (Portal) Naked Truth/Propaganda ============================================================
