So Poppy Bush is the only ex-president who receives daily CIA breifings?

[SilasSoule]

Whatever would he want with those???

[Raster]

1. the better to run carlyle with, my dear...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. He is also the only former Director of the CIA that became President...

...you can retire from the CIA but you can never really leave.

[jean]

3. that creeped me out as did the footage of poppy and the Saudi

power elite. There seemed to be no end to it.

Plus that little Taliban guy who visited Texas was a real punk - so much footage of the bush's with these people - made me angry - on top of being told they OWN 7% of our country.

Those daily CIA briefings help poppy plan his day. Do you think he calls junior to tell him what to do?

[unblock]

4. how did they figure that 7%?

it sounded to me like they took the $ amount of stock ownership and divided it by annual gdp. which isn't valid.

anyone have the full math?

[jean]

6. wasn't Moore talking to Craig Unger during that part of the movie?

Unger wrote House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/074325337X/102-3370754-6924134?v=glance

and Moore seemed to accept Unger's analysis on the subject. Does anyone have the book on hand???



edit - spelling

[sadiesworld]

5. Yoo hoo...

calling the 9/11 Commission.

[Cat Atomic]

7. Yeah- this really should be a big scandal.

I can't think of a single reason why a former president should be receiving daily CIA briefings. ESPECIALLY when that former president is a major player in the arms market.

[Papa]

8. I just ran across an interview with Bush with Britt Hume about this.

It was from Sept 23, 2003. Bush specifically states his dad does not get daily briefs. I don't know if this means anything to anyone, but Bush contradicts the account that his dad gets Daily Briefs

<snip>

HUME: So you end up calling to comfort him?

BUSH: I call him to comfort him, really, yeah absolutely. And let him know that, you know, I'm doing good, don't worry about me. Seriously. And the -- but in terms of advice on how to make decisions, the best advice to get is from people like Rice and Powell and Rumsfeld and Cheney and Tenet and Snow and Evans and Card. I mean, the people that are actually living these issues on a daily basis. It doesn't hurt my dad's feelings, because he knows that they are more up to speed than he is. He does not get the daily briefs. He does not know all the insides and outs of what's going on here.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C98111%2C00.html