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Bush has the real shakedown crew
1:36PM ON
07/15/2008
BY
Ari Savitzky
Itinerant reader Nathaniel tips us off to this smokin’ hot video of a Bush lobbyist shaking down representatives of Kyrgyzstan’s exiled ex-president for “a couple hundred thousand dollars” in Bush library contributions in exchange for a visit with Dubya.
[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=XztpVvOm5js]
And that’s legal?? The UK Times says this is a real “row,” which I assume means one more in a series of soul-numbing lessons on the direct relationship between power and corruption. Thanks Lord Acton!
Or perhaps it’s just that Presidential libraries are the ultimate shakedown.
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