by Sidney Blumenthal

Salon

12/30/04

The transition to President Bush's second term, filled with backstage betrayals, plots and pathologies, would make for an excellent chapter of 'I, Claudius.' To begin with, I have learned from numerous sources, including several people close to Brent Scowcroft, that Bush has unceremoniously and without public acknowledgment dumped Scowcroft, his father's closest associate and friend, as chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. The elder Bush's national security advisor was the last remnant of traditional Republican realism permitted to exist within the administration...[subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/12/30/neocons/


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