George Bush - deceiving all rationale, marches on in his quest to surround himself with loyalists and supporters regardless of experience.
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Nov. 2, 2005 - Controversy continues to rage over spying failures and the mishandling of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Last week it was the indictments in the CIA leak case. This week, it was the extraordinary secret session of the Senate, when Democrats pushed for a new round of inquiries into the misuse of intelligence on Saddam's regime. So it's all the more remarkable to see how the White House has just filled a committee overseeing intelligence issues.
President Bush last week appointed nine campaign contributors, including three longtime fund-raisers, to his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a 16-member panel of individuals from the private sector who advise the president on the quality and effectiveness of U.S. intelligence efforts. After watching the fate of Michael Brown as head of FEMA and Harriet Miers as Supreme Court nominee, you might think the president would be wary about the appearance of cronyism--especially with a critical national-security issue such as intelligence. Instead, Bush reappointed William DeWitt, an Ohio businessman who has raised more than $300,000 for the president's campaigns, for a third two-year term on the panel. Originally appointed in 2001, just a few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, DeWitt, who was also a top fund-raiser for Bush's 2004 Inaugural committee, was a partner with Bush in the Texas Rangers baseball team.
Bush has run rough-shod over the sanctity of appointments. We are witnessing a man who never was and never will be able to withstand the pressures of being President. This ain't like running a baseball team, and it sure as hell ain't like working for Daddy. Somehow, though, I get the feeling Bush wants to think he is back in his fraternity at Yale and he's doling out duties for the upcoming end-of-year carnival.
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