Ben Barnes apparently has gone on camera for 60 Minutes confirming that he used his influence to get George H.W. Bush’s son into the Champagne Unit of the Texas Air National Guard. The younger Bush, of course — the one who doesn’t believe that America can win the war on terror — has repeatedly denied that any special influence was used.
I wonder if Dan Rather asked Barnes about Greg Palast’s report that Bush gave one of Barnes’s lobbying clients an extension on its no-bid contract to run the Texas Lottery (thus earning Barnes a $23 million fee) in return for Barnes’s silence.
