Ex-lottery boss claiming Miers kept 'lid' on Bush Guard controversy

[Quixote1818]

CHANGING OF THE GUARD
Miers panel to hear
'explosive testimony'?
Gag order lifted for ex-lottery boss claiming Miers kept 'lid' on Bush Guard controversy

Harriet Miers and President Bush
Released from a gag order, Larry Littwin – the controversial former director of the Texas Lottery under Harriet Miers – is free to appear at the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings to give "potentially explosive" testimony damaging both to President Bush and his nominee, according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi.

As WorldNetDaily has reported, Littwin allegedly was fired by Miers because he wanted to investigate improper political influence-buying by lobbyists for GTECH, the firm contracted to run the lottery.

Corsi believes that Littwin, according to an examination of hundreds of contemporary Texas newspaper accounts, will be able to establish under oath that the GTECH contract was preserved on a no-bid basis by then-chairwoman of the Lottery Commission Miers in order to "keep the lid on" the National Guard controversy involving then-Gov. Bush.


The lobbyists included Ben Barnes, the former Texas lieutenant governor who claims he pulled strings to get Bush into the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.

Continued at: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46964

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. How very strange...

This article refers to a report by Jerome Corsi in that lunatic fringe website WorldNutDaily. Corsi is the shitbag Swift Boat Liar who wrote "Unfit for Command."

[aquart]

3. Are you implying...that George and Harriet are about to be

Swift-boated???

How? For the love of God, How? And WHY?

Maybe it's a different Corsi. Maybe the GOP didn't pay him his price.

[Kagemusha]

4. It's the same guy. That's why libs are doing a double-take

And you really must ask why? Because Bush is betraying the Movement. Now people like Pat Roberson are questioning that there is any such Movement among the grassroots at all.

[IndianaGreen]

14. Having Corsi swift boat Bush and his groveling lapdog

would be poetic justice.

Time to eat popcorn!

:popcorn:

[aquart]

15. It would be difficult to stop laughing, true.

Live by the swiftboat, die by the swiftboat.

[Erika]

2. You mean W was AWOL during his National Guard Service

A big duh. He pays off those who kept that secret? Another big duh.

[Zen Democrat]

5. It's clear that there is a deep schism in the Republican Party.

If World Net and Corsi is putting this stuff out, Bush may be losing his base. Quickly.

[Quixote1818]

6. He could end up with the lowest approval ratings ever recorded

if this keeps up. :popcorn:

[DELUSIONAL]

7. Watch out Syria! Bushie may need to wag the dog -- a whole lot.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Here's the earlier article written by WorldNutDaily, for what it's worth..

Larry Littwin: George Bush's John Dean
Posted: October 15, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Before Larry Littwin is subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Harriet Miers should withdraw her nomination. If she does not, the threat is that the Bush administration may unravel before one year is complete in the second term.

Larry Littwin sits at the center the Texas Lottery Commission scandals that Harriet Miers has helped keep covered up for nearly 10 years. The moment Larry Littwin begins to testify under oath, he is going to bring forward a volume of detail and possibly even documents that threaten to bring down the Bush presidency itself. Make no mistake about it – Larry Littwin is the John Dean of the George W. Bush presidency.

Who is Larry Littwin? On June 10, 1997, the Austin American-Statesman announced that the Texas Lottery Commission had voted to hire Lawrence Littwin of New York to be its new executive director. The lottery was embroiled in a scandal involving GTECH, the Rhode Island company operating the lottery, over a kickback and illegal political influence scheme that ended up with J. David Smith, GTECH's national sales manager, being convicted of federal felonies in a plot that involved Ben Barnes, the former Texas lieutenant governor and lobbyist whom GTECH was paying $3 million a year to make sure the company kept the Texas contract. The previous executive director, Nora Linares, was fired when it was learned that GTECH was paying her boyfriend in New Mexico $6,000 a month to be a "consultant."
(snip/...)

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46843

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Another article from Swiftie Corsi:

Cover-up deep in the heart
of Texas
Posted: October 5, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

CBS missed the boat. Dan Rather should never have used the forged documents. Instead, "60 Minutes" should have focused on GTECH, Ben Barnes and Harriet Miers.

The real story in Texas goes back to the Texas Lottery scandals of the 1990s. This can of worms, now re-opened by the Miers nomination, appears to be a story of political influence peddling, cover-ups over exactly how and why George Bush got into the National Guard, and GTECH – the Rhode Island company that has held the Texas contract since 1992, despite not always being the low bidder.

In the Texas Lottery scandal, there are abundant real documents on the public record, plus evidence of some that the Texas Lottery Commission has worked to make sure the public will never see. Who was at the center of what be one massive cover-up? Attorney Harriet Miers – President Bush's new, surprise Supreme Court nominee.

George W. Bush and Harriet Miers do have a long history, going back at least to 1995 when George W. Bush appointed her to be a Texas Lottery commissioner, just after he first took office as governor of Texas. In 2000, when Gov. Bush left Texas to move to Washington, one of his first appointments as president was to make sure Harriet Miers was on his White House staff. President Bush says he nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court in large part because she is a close and trusted associate. The question now is: How close and how trusted?
(snip/...)

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46665

[MarsThe Cat]

11. Bush isn't worried at all-

Littwin is flying to washington to testify.

[Judi Lynn]

12. He should make an exception this time and take the bus!

Or, he could be even safer....

[Toots]

27. I don't really care how Bush* got into the Guard

It is understood that powerful people are able to pull strings for their children. What I care about is how Bush* fulfilled his service ( duty to his country). Did he abandon his post for the last year of his service. Why did Bush* refuse a direct order to take a required flight physical? I doubt if any of that will be brought up at all. Why is it Republicans have no curiosity at all? Don't they care about truth at all?

[mirandapriestly]

9. This has been known for some time, I heard it on AAR

and of course the good ol media said NOTHING

[truthisfreedom]

10. jeepers! she's crooked, too! what a surprise!

who woulda thunk?

[ngGale]

13. Whoa...the right is sending a message...

straight to the WH...damn, they hate Meirs much more than I thought.
His own party, is going chew him up and spit him out...:popcorn:

[aquart]

16. From the beginning, I said the only ones who could get rid of him

would be the Republicans. He has to be eaten alive by his own.

And I don't mind if they choke like he was a pretzel.

[spooky3]

22. not so fast. If Miers withdraws her nomination, * will nominate

an even more extreme wingnut and that base will come running back.

[Canuckistanian]

24. The longer she waits to withdraw, the worse it looks for *

She WANTS this. If she hasn't been dissuaded so far, there are two possibilities;

1. She's just oblivious to the criticism

or

2. She's being constantly reassured by * that everything's all right and she's in like Fint.

[IndianaGreen]

30. Miers is unqualified for the bench no matter how you slice it

As to Bush, a real opposition party would have voted against every nominee that Bush sends to the Hill.

[reprobate]

26. Remember the letter that Liddy sent to Miller?

It said the Aspens are turning and they're turning in bunches?

That's been interpreted to mean the a convention of top conservatives that had met in Aspen had decided to abandon Bush. And "turning in bunches" meant that they were all agreed that Bush had to be dumped.

I think this is just one of their means to torpedo this administration.

Pass the popcorn, please. With butter and a little salt.

[jobycom]

17. Sounds like a bluff to make Bush drop Miers

The Swiftboat guys are exposing this link to make Bush drop Miers before bringing the nomination to confirmation hearings, where all the info would come out. If there's any truth to the article.

Or maybe there's an opposite motive. They could be hoping to divert the Dems on the senate with false info. Make the Dems look wacko by having them question witnesses on Bush's Guard service instead of relevant SCOTUS questions.

Who knows?

[Festivito]

32. Plausible thought. Hope it backfires just long enough for hearings..

to show Bush's TANG record.

[0007]

18. This dilemma will surely dismiss Harriet Miers rather quickly

from traveling much further on her journey to the Supreme Court. I expect her to withdraw.

[democrank]

19. I hope Littwin testifies.

This would be deserving payback for the fake hero flight suit.

[mamalone]

20. I'd love to hear what the Freepers have to say about this.....

I mean, don't they think the Swifties are great and noble patriots...and how could Corsi do this to the most noble patriot of all, Bush?:sarcasm:


Like I said, I'd love to read their thoughts on this. But..I..just..can't bring myself to go over there. I mean, really, children use this computer!

[Ferretherder]

21. Ya' know, guys, I'd love to get 'happy' about all of this, but,...

...the part that REALLY scares me is knowing that the only reason they (the extreme right lunatics) are doing this to * is because they want a more rigidly resolute ideologue on the supreme court, not that this ditsy bitch is in no way qualified for the appointment and is only being payed back for 'figuratively' sucking *'s dick for lo these many years. (I know you all are aware of this, but,....you know.)

Scary shit.

[belle]

28. Yeah, well, a lot of people rejected Gore/Kerry for Nader, and look what

happened there. Just 'cause you want something doesn't mean you're going to get it.

Meanwhile, all I have to say is:

:popcorn:

[jody]

23. Neocons represent corporatists and used Repugs to increase their power.

The final solution if it occurs is when middle class WASPS realize they've been betrayed by the necons and puppet *, and begin to trickle back to the Democratic Party.

The only thing that can save the necons in 2006 is to keep voters distracted on issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, intelligent design, ten commandants, school vouchers, and a few other issues.

Necon strategy -- Just keep increasing the water temperature very, very slowly or the frog will jump out of the pot.

[rodeodance]

25. i hope it will more than a trickle. But I am a realist also.

.....The final solution if it occurs is when middle class WASPS realize they've been betrayed by the necons and puppet *, and begin to trickle back to the Democratic Party.

[AlCzervik]

29. Corsi of the Swiftboats? WTF, ok who in the gop is having this leaked?

[progressoid]

31. Too bad this comes from Worldnetdaily...

They have some other wonderful stories like:

-Finally, someone turns tables on Michael Moore

-Racing toward Judgment Day!

-Walgreens' $100,000 Gay Games gift protested

-THE MARKETING OF EVIL - WorldNetDaily Exclusive
How 'gay rights' is being sold to America

-The 3rd terrorist: Mideast tie to OKC bombing

Just do yourself a favor and avoid WND.

[snowbear]

33. Look at that picture in the article of them two!

She's got an "Oh!" expression, while it looks like he's reaching out pinching her ass: