from
kitty kelley's THE FAMILY
on ghwb, page 348
He pushed the Justice Department to prosecute the
WASHINTON POST reporter Bob Woodward for publishing the the first account of CIA electronic surveillance of government representatives in Micronesia. Bush maintained that Woodward had violated the Signals Intelligence Act, which makes it a felony to publish any classified information. Yet Bush withheld the CIA files that would have proven the agency's involvement. So the Justice Department dropped the case againt the journalist.
He refused to cooperate with the investigation into the Washington, D.C., bombing of the car of the former Chilean Ambassador to the United States, Orlando letelier, that killed Letelier and Ronni Moffitt, a colleague from the IInstitute of Policy Studies. The murder was directed by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's secret service, and the CIA knew that two of the assassins were in the United States at the time of the bombing. Needing to cover up the CIA's involvement with the Chilean secret service, George directed the agency to leak the story that the bombing was the work not of the obvious supects but of leftists looking to create a martyr for their cause.