Just finished reading Larry Kolb’s America at Night: The True Story of Two Rogue CIA Operatives, Homeland Security Failures, Dirty Money, and a Plot to Steal the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election – by the Former Intelligence Agent Who Foiled the Plan. (whew) And, I thought I was cynical before.
It peels the sheets back on connections between the Bush White House and two of the dirty tricksters you might imagine being clandestinely employed by Rove to cause Kerry some political damage. Specifically, they were setting up Kerry’s campaign manager (who was slated to take the reigns of a telecom company) so that it would look like the same company also had money laundering connections to al Qaeda. They’re linked directly with Reagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2 via different deals and meetings over the years the presidents were respectively in power. The guys in question also happen to be ex-CIA turned con men to the globally rich and famous, so the story is not only about their work for the Republicans, but their ability to freelance their swindling and stay out of jail thanks to protection from above.
Kolb, himself, is ex-CIA and states in his book that he’s voted both R & D in past elections, but unequivocally believes that thanks to the Bush/neocon agenda “America is less safe now from terrorism and cataclysm than it ever was.”
(cataclysm such as Katrina)