Court Documents of Bush's Cocaine Arrest....."Fresh Intelligence"

[ElsewheresDaughter]

RADAR

5.27.05
Dubya’s Double Trouble?
http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/05/27/index.php#report_000809

Since George W. Bush’s first presidential campaign, journalists have been trying to verify reports that the president was once arrested on a cocaine posession charge. Now, for the first time, court records obtained by Radar may be able to shed some light on the mystery. Filed in 1986, the same year that the president claims to have given up drinking, the documents clearly show that a George W. Bush Jr. was convicted in a Midland, Texas court on a vague “unlawful practice of medicine” charge. Only thing is, it appears to be the wrong George W. Bush. Although they were born mere months apart, lived in the same town (the president grew up in Midland), and both have blue eyes and similar builds, only one was slapped with a $2000 fine and a year’s probation. The other became leader of the free world.

The arrest story stems from Texas journalist J.H. Hatfield’s much-maligned 1999 book Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President. Hatfield, who committed suicide a year after his book was published, alleged that Bush was once arrested for drug possession in Texas but persuaded the judge to expunge his record by volunteering for an inner-city outreach program. It was rumored that the architect of the deal was legendary Texas lawyer Warren Burnett, who added further intrigue by cagily refusing to answer definitively whether or not he had represented George W. Bush. (The president has always vehemently denied the drug claim and a White House spokeperson did not return calls by press time.) Perhaps reporters should have specified which Bush they were talking about: The court documents list Burnett as George W. Bush Jr.’s lawyer in the 1986 arrest. Unfortunately, Burnett, who died in 2002, was unavailable to comment on his bizarro client.

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The arrest story stems from Texas journalist J.H. Hatfield’s much-maligned 1999 book Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President. Hatfield, who committed suicide a year after his book was published, alleged that Bush was once arrested for drug possession in Texas but persuaded the judge to expunge his record by volunteering for an inner-city outreach program. It was rumored that the architect of the deal was legendary Texas lawyer Warren Burnett, who added further intrigue by cagily refusing to answer definitively whether or not he had represented George W. Bush. (The president has always vehemently denied the drug claim and a White House spokeperson did not return calls by press time.) Perhaps reporters should have specified which Bush they were talking about: The court documents list Burnett as George W. Bush Jr.’s lawyer in the 1986 arrest. Unfortunately, Burnett, who died in 2002, was unavailable to comment on his bizarro client.

[nytemare]

Now, who will risk the "Ratheresque" task of airing this?

Possibly Olbermann.

[Soup Bean]

1. Did the President ever go by the name "George W. Bush, Jr."?

Just wondering....

[Spazito]

3. I did a google search and it seems the answer is yes...

here is but one example:


The Father's Son: George W. Bush, Jr
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Most of the results on google make reference to Jr but it seems he has worked to drop the Jr since becoming President.

[peacetalksforall]

17. Was the other George Bush a Junior?

The lawyer's firm should have a record of which Bush it was?

There should be an address for the person named?

[napi21]

2. The SS # is blanked out, but the DL# isn't!

I know Shrub had his changed, but there should be some obscure record of the original he had. Can't someone research the one on these forms?

[HereSince1628]

6. Maybe something escaped destruction when Bush was Gov.

and someone should search but I am not very hopeful. I suspect that with Mr. Rove's help everything has been made neat and tidy.

[LiberalFighter]

12. The DL might had escaped if they thought there was nothing...

to trace it back to it

[eleny]

9. He and Laura got new ones in 1995

The Wayne Madsen article on this
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/Redux/redux.html

I think there's no longer any record of his old numbers.

[Inland]

4. Clearly the youthful indiscretion

of a 42 year old worthless drunk. Say, wasn't his daddy VP and running for president then?

[LiberalFighter]

15. Happened in 1986 and would make gw*dipshit 40 years old

[Inland]

5. Wonder if the "unlawful practice of medicine" was handing out prescription

drugs.

My first thought of George as abortionist I discarded.

Any lawyers from that area able to tell us if the plea deals for passing around prescription drugs ended up being "unlawful practice of medicine"?

[HereSince1628]

8. Look its nothing, Bush told someone to take a couple asprins and

call him in the morning. Some overzealous law officer simply misunderstood...Bush pleaded and accepted his sentence just to save the legal fees and embarrassment for his father...

[napi21]

11. Yeah right! We all get a $2,500 fine for asprin...right? n/t

[HereSince1628]

14. That's cause the liberal MSO were pick'n on him cause he's a Bush.

hahahahahahahaha this is going to be fun

[LiberalFighter]

13. Why did it mention "supporting dependents"?

[Inland]

20. Probably form.

One reason to allow probation is that he has Laura and twins to support. If you aren't going to support your dependents, then that's one reason why TX would just as soon see you in prison.

[neweurope]

7. "J.H. Hatfield’s much-maligned 1999 book

Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President. Hatfield, who committed suicide a year after his book was published..."

Suicides seem to follow the war criminal wherever he goes... I've never heard about either of the book or the author. Did he REALLY commit suicide? here just seem to be too many suicides and small plane accidents; and I think I remember something about Anthrax being sent to a journalist who had reported something about the Bush twins.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. oops..never mind

[punpirate]

16. This doesn't jive with the facts as known....

Hatfield's contentions were that Bush was relieved of a cocaine possession charge in Houston, in 1972 (the presumed reason was that he would do public service for Project PULL in Houston, one of his father's minor causes).

It's also very unlikely that formal court documents would list him as George W. Bush, Jr., since he's not (unless it was also acknowledged that this was a known alias of his).

This, unfortunately, is completely unrelated to Hatfield's charges, and is almost certainly not the same person.

[SoCalifer]

18. Good Find

But may I play devil's advocate?

Does anybody find this a little coincidental with respect to the moment building concerning the downing street memo? If my suspicions are correct, this release would be another example of classic Bushco & Repub modus operandi to divert attention from and discredit something else they feel threatened by.

If this is jumped on without absolute verification of authenticity, then at the very least, it could possibly endanger diluting the effectiveness the downing street memo could have on the public and media.

Call me paranoid, but IMHO these people are devious and crude strategists. We have to be careful.

Other than that, it sure would be great to see this get the air-time the runnaway bide got.. :)

[peacetalksforall]

19. Then...people should lie low with this while they gather the facts rather

than hype it. That's what they do...get the press to ignore while they think. Think about how to control damage. Or wait for something to fade.

[Inland]

21. OOOPSY-DAISY--Got the wrong George W. Bush.

DOB doesn't match. DOB is 1945 on police report, 1946 for the not=convicted drug user who became President.

http://www.politics1.com/bush.htm

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