San Diego Weighs In
From Sunday’s San Diego Union-Tribune:
Eight years later and many of us are still wondering: How in the world did George W. Bush become president? How did Dubya, of all people, even reach a point where he could become president?
Partisan carping? Sue me. Better yet, read Russ Baker’s scathing “Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America” (Bloomsbury Press, 577 pages, $30).
Baker strongly argues that Bush’s destructive policies – lying us into war, sanctioning torture and illegal wiretapping, trashing the Constitution, to name just a few – are part and parcel of the family business. And that family business maintains contacts in and utilizes a web of intelligence agencies to work on behalf of the country’s elites: social, financial, industrial, military, etc.
Left-wing paranoia? Baker, a solid investigative journalist, works hard to back up his claims – a reader could choke on the complex, interwoven details in “Family of Secrets.” He’s a man on a mission, desperate to stop the “methods of stealth and manipulation that … reflect a deeper ill: the American public’s increasingly tenuous hold upon the levers of its own democracy.”
January 27, 2009 3:12 pm 
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By Paul Pease, February 10, 2009 @ 3:28 pm
Choking on the complex, interwoven details…
I’ve just finally put the book down and am embarking on a week or two of incredulous digestion of the facts Russ presents.
I’ll get my researcher daughter to read FOS and then ask her to help me unravel it all.
Great work. Good writing. Great digging. Let’s have more.
Paul
By Nathaniel Heidenheimer, February 17, 2009 @ 5:47 pm
If your daughter is Lisa Pease, Im sure she will come up with great stuff. One of the best writers on JFK “reassassination” by the US media.