Bush family. - Jeb and the Bush crime family : the inside story of an American dynasty

Copyright 2016 by Roger Stone and Saint John Hunt

Foreword 2016 by John LeBoutillier

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This book is dedicated to Governor John Davis Lodge, my political mentor, who taught me that politics is the art of inclusion and who, under extreme pressure, refused to appoint Prescott Bush to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate, an act of courage.

Roger Stone

This book is also dedicated to my mother Dorothy Hunt, who White House Counsel John Dean said was the savviest woman in the world, who had the whole picture [of Watergate] put together. I miss you every day.

Saint John Hunt

Jeb and the Bush Crime Family is also dedicated to those brave journalists who have blazed the trail when it comes to exposing the crimes of the Bush family: Russ Baker, Nick Bryant, Kevin Phillips, James Moore, Craig Unger, Webster Griffin Tarpley, Anton Chaitkin, Peter Brewton, Bill Minutaglio, Terry Reed, and David Corn. While the authors disagree with them on some issues, we respect them all.

Robert Morrow

CONTENTS

FOREWORD BY CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEBOUTILLIER

W hen Jeb was at Andover he ran an illegal drug and alcohol distributorship selling pot and booze to his fellow students but when the school authorities caught wind of it, Jeb sold out one of his partners and escaped by the skin of his teeth. This was told to me in the mid-1990s by my then-girlfriend, whose husband was one of Jebs Andover partners in this scheme. But because Jeb Bush had recently lost his bid to be governor of Florida, I put it in the back of my mind; his older brother, George W.known inside the Bush family as Juniorhad won his election in Texas and was the focus of Bush World. Jeb retreated into the backgroundfor a while.

Its funny how things come round in the world. Jeb, of course, went on to win two terms as Floridas chief executive and helped with the controversial recount in the 2000 Florida presidential election that made Junior our 43rd president. Today, Jeb himself is running for president.

In October 2006 I attended my 30th Harvard Reunion. During a cocktail party a classmate of mine who I didnt really know, Charles Hirschler, came up to me and began talking: Did you know that while I was at Andover with Jeb Bush, he ran this drug dealership with two other guys they were selling drugs and booze to students but Jeb cut and ran and sold out someone to save himself?

There it was againmore than a decade after I first heard it.

Thenagainin 2011, yet another Andover classmate of Jebs said to me, I never knew at the time why Jeb walked around the campus with his jaw hanging open he was stoned all the time!

Finally in the summer of 2015, a woman friend of mine who had been married to a guy in Jebs Andover class told me over lunch, Oh yeah he told me all about Jebs drug dealership.

So there we have it: four different guys who were either in Jebs graduating class at Andover or a year ahead of him all confirming Jebs role in this drug and booze dealership.

The American people needed to hear this before they voted. So I penned a 2013 column detailing the facts as I knew them and posted it on my website: johnlebout.com. I hoped someone in the media would someday use a search engine and find it and then do their own investigation.

In early 2015, just as the 2016 campaign heated up, David Margolick of Vanity Fair indeed found me because of my column and said, I want to do an investigative piece about this. So I gave him the names and numbers of all the people mentioned above. And I then trusted that he would call them himself and hear the same things I had heard.

A few weeks later he called me back and said, John, it never happened. There was no drug and booze ring at Andover at all.

I was flabbergasted.

When I asked him if he had talked to my sources, he told me that he had never talked to even one of the guys I mentioned who were at Andover with Jeb when it happened!

Who would know better than they would? Is it possible that four separate guys are all making up the same story over the course of three decades? Or, instead, is it possibleand in fact very likelythat the Bush Machine scrambled to debunk this story before it took hold?

To this day, I have to wonder why no legitimate journalist would do a proper investigation, talk to the primary sourcesthe guys who were there at Andover with Jeb Bushand then tell it to the American people. Thats why I am happy that Roger Stone and Saint John Hunt have written this book.

The people have a right to know the truth about the personal character of the candidates who are asking for their votes. In the case of Jeb Bush, the American people need to know that he did things at Andover that tell us a lot about his morals and his character. Indeed, the American people need to know more about the history of the Bush family.

John LeBoutillier (R) served in the House of Representatives for New Yorks Sixth District from 1981 to 1983. He is a political commentator and author of several books, including the best-selling Harvard Hates America .

INTRODUCTION BY ROGER STONE

F orty-third president George W. Bushs biography of his father George Herbert Walker Bush is a whitewash of history and a warm-up act for the latest contender from the House of Bush, Jeb.

Especially as he ages and cultivates his kindly, affable persona with the help of new biographies that ignore his dirty deeds, its important to learn his true nature. As my colleague Russ Baker notes, the recently published Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham is the latest sycophantic whitewash of Bushs life as an American success story, written with the full cooperation of the Bushes and serving entirely to cement the faade of H. W. as a mild-mannered public servant. Pulitzer Prizewinning and well connected, author Meacham is a former managing editor at Newsweek , a magazine with a history of CIA connections. Thats why I had to write this book.

Missing is the entire Bush backstory: the family providing financing to the Nazis to buy arms; the support for eugenics; 41s involvement with the CIA in the Bay of Pigs; his evasions about November 22, 1963, and his name appearing in the address book of Lee Harvey Oswalds handler George de Mohrenschildt; his involvement in CIA drug running, and the murder of drug runner Barry Seal; the real reason Bush fell out with Ross Perot; and the real Bush connection to both the attempted assassination of Reagan and the attempt to set Reagan up in Iran-Contra they have all been airbrushed out of 41: A Portrait of My Father . All are missing from George Ws book, which is a sanitized campaign biography.