“I started off in Washington at the Central Intelligence Agency and went to law school at night while I was working at CIA,” recalled William Barr in a 2001 oral history for the University of Virginia. The new Attorney General, approved by the Senate on Thursday, has what Trump might call “deep state” credentials. Barr...
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Tag: <span>George H.W. Bush</span>
Why the CIA Loved the Late George H. Bush
Last month, 19 senior CIA officials, current and former, signed a statement lauding the late president George Bush, who served as CIA director for one year. The agency put out a complimentary “unclassified” video about his service to the agency. Langley’s Twitter feed featured 11 straight days of photos and anecdotes about Bush’s warm relationship...
Bush Ran a Secret National Security Team as VP, Says Seymour Hersh
The veteran investigative reporter writes that George H. Bush, as vice president, ran a covert operations team in the early 1980s that even the CIA didn’t know about. As a former CIA director, Bush had the experience to oversee activities. Hersh says the vice president’s team ran 35 counterterrorism, counternarcotics and assassination operations between 1981...
The Legacy of Bush’s CIA Pardons
When I first came to Washington in the 1980s, one of the first stories I reported on regularly was the Iran-contra scandal. As vice president, the late George Bush was in the thick of it. In the fall of 1986, while working as an editor at The New Republic magazine, I commissioned a story by...
Remembering Bush: The Lies That Led to the Invasion of Panama
Newsweek’s Peter Eisner wrote this account of the 1991 U.S. invasion of Panama after the death of Manuel Noriega last years. It is equally relevant after the passing of the late President Bush. Not only was the justification for the invasion was bogus, Eisner reported, Noriega was a long time asset of the CIA. The...
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