"This is really good for us. . .I find it a huge compliment that he is 'tipping' us off about this . . .This is a lucky break."
That's from an email to Bush family friend Ray Hunt, CEO of Hunt Oil. The "tip" the email refers to led to an oil rights agreement between Hunt's company and Kurdish officials, an agreement that was completed in the midst of contentious negotiations in Baghdad about a revenue-sharing agreement between the various warring parties in Iraq. It created, you might dimly recall, an enormous problem both for the Iraqis and for US authorities.
At the time the Bush administration claimed, despite the close personal ties between Hunt and the Bush family, that it knew nothing about the agreement. Us crazy liberal bloggers didn't believe it, of course. How could a family friend move on a deal that directly undermined official US policy without anyone finding out in advance?
And look! We were right!
Ray Hunt, the head of Hunt Oil, personally informed advisors to President Bush of meetings he and other Hunt Oil officials planned with representatives of the Kurdish government. Other Hunt Oil officials kept State Department officials informed about the company' s intentions.
Nothing terribly surprising here, at this point. Bush has made abundantly clear that he believes rules and laws are for other people to follow, and that they certainly do not apply to him or his friends. It's a time of war, after all, and he is our Commander in Chief, so he can do no wrong!
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