Who is going to guard the Bush family secrets now that Gates has left?

[kentuck]

Wasn't that his job at Texas A & M? Wasn't he appointed to do that job when Bush, Jr, early in his tenure, decided to not make public the presidential records of his father? And now, he is nominated for Secreatary of Defense? Most people remember his role in Iran -Contra and perhaps in the Central American adventures. I have no idea what type of relationship he had with Bush Jr in those days> However, one thing remains consistent. They always turn to old and loyal family friends to protect their asses...

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. There's a lot to Robert Gates--the man is dirty

http://www.thedubyareport.com/bushbin.html

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The Carlyle Group held a controlling interest in defense contractor B.D.M. until 1998 when it sold its stake to TRW. Through its subsidiaries B.D.M. holds lucrative contracts to train and manage the Saudi National Guard. Philip A. Odeen, president of B.D.M. served in the defense department of the Nixon administration. TRW board members include former CIA director Robert M. Gates, and Michael H. Armacost, undersecretary of state in the Reagan administration and ambassador to Japan during Bush I.



Always in the Bush Family pocket, a pawn for sacrifice...
http://newsarchives.tamu.edu/stories/99/073099-8.html

Dr. Robert Gates Named Bush School Interim Dean
COLLEGE STATION - Robert M. Gates, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been named interim dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
Texas A&M President Ray M. Bowen said Gates will assume leadership of the Bush School Sept. 1 and serve as dean for one year while a national search is conducted to fill the deanship on a permanent basis.

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He is a member of the board of trustees of The Fidelity Funds, sits on the boards of directors of TRW, Inc. and NACCO Industries and serves as senior adviser to several major international firms. He is a trustee of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Boston and the Forum for International Policy, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting vigorous American international leadership. Also, he is a member of the national executive board of the Boy Scouts of America and serves as president of the National Eagle Scout Association.


And a bit more... Baker's "Cover Bush's Ass" group.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.dreyfuss.html

A Higher Power
James Baker puts Bush's Iraq policy into rehab.

By Robert Dreyfuss
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Besides Baker, the bipartisan task force is co-chaired by former congressman Lee H. Hamilton, the Indiana Democrat and foreign-policy wise man. Working with a quartet of think tanks--the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Center for the Study of the Presidency, and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy--Baker and Hamilton recruited a star-studded task force, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans include Robert M. Gates, the former CIA director; Sandra Day O'Connor, the retired Justice; Alan Simpson, the former Wyoming senator; and Edwin Meese III, attorney general under President Reagan. The Democrats are William Perry, President Clinton's secretary of defense; Charles Robb, the former Virginia senator; Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of staff; and Vernon Jordan, the lawyer and Friend of Bill.

Since April, operating almost entirely under the radar, the task force has spawned four working groups, recruiting scores of U.S. experts on Iraq and the Middle East to look at military and security issues, Iraqi politics, reconstruction, and the regional and strategic environment surrounding the war. Among the participants in these working groups are former ambassadors and State Department officials, intelligence officers from the CIA and other parts of the U.S. intelligence community, and think-tank denizens from the RAND Corporation, the Nixon Center, the Henry L. Stimson Center, the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, the Middle East Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and others, along with a panel of retired military officers: three army generals, an air-force general, and an admiral.

But according to all accounts, the Iraq Study Group is Baker's show, with the assembled cast of characters there to give Baker the bipartisan, protective coloration he needs. "Jim Baker is the gatekeeper," one task-force participant told me, insisting on anonymity. "He's by far the most dynamic, and everyone else is intimidated by him." And Baker is keeping his cards very close to his chest. "He's very secretive, he keeps his distance, and he compartmentalizes everything, which is not a bad way to organize a political conspiracy," says another member of one of the working groups.

[donsu]

2. you are right - new head of TA&M will be a bushmilhousegang member

and more private guards will be on hand to protect the criminal evidence from seeing the light of day, and the eyesight of lawyers.

[leftofthedial]

3. this cabal is every bit as despicable

as the leaders of the Nazi party

and Gates is another on from the core