GW Bush Administration Insiders Quit and Tell the truth about what has been going on inside this administration.
by kathy@truthisbetter.org Last updated 2004-06-22

The Bush administration consistently tries to keep the facts from the American people, and punishes those who tell the truth, even risking U.S. security to do so.

• Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill for telling the truth about the effect of the Bush tax cuts. He served under four Presidents beginning with Ford, and was asked to resign by GW.
• Ambassador Joseph Wilson who exposed Bush's state of the union lie about the Iraq nuclear program had his undercover CIA agent wife outed by the White House, which probably caused the deaths of people who had been working to help America with her overseas, put her life in danger and meant the end of her undercover CIA work. This was illegal. The White house has stone-walled the investigation, although the Vice President's office is suspected.
• Richard Foster a Medicare accounant for the GAO was threatened with firing last year if he disclosed too much information to Congress about how much the new Medicare drug program would cost.
• White House Top Economic Advisor Lawrence Lindsey who honestly told us the Iraq war would cost upwards of $100 billion (It cost more than that) and was let go.
• Richard Clarke, Chief Counter-terrorism officer who revealed how the Bush adminsitration had ignored the threat of Al Qaeda. Richard Clarke ran our government on 9/11 from the White House situation room while Cheney was in an underground bunker and GW was fleeing aboard Air Force One. A smear campaign by the White House was conducted against Richard Clarke, blaming him for 9/11 although he had tried to get the Bush administration repeatedly to go after Bin Ladin.
• Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix and Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter were likewise smeared by the Bush administration.
• Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni and Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki expressed concerns about the number of troops or the expense to occupy Iraq.
• Here is an entire list of Washington Insiders who came forward against the GW Bush administration, compiled by Between the Lines.
• Flynt Leverett, a former C.I.A. analyst  who until last year served on the National Security Council and is now a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, told me that late last summer "the Administration had a chance to turn it around after it was clear that 'Mission Accomplished'" - a reference to Bush's May speech - "was premature. The Bush people could have gone to their allies and got more boots on the ground. But the neocons were dug in - 'We're doing this on our own.'"