Crimes of a President: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover Up in the Bush and Reagan Administration

by Peter J. Leithart and Joel Bainerman

Book Overview

A look at the crimes of the Reagan and Bush administrations discusses Bush's orchestration of the Gulf War after planning to arm Saddam Hussein, his role in the Iran-Contra scandal and the bombing of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561711888
• ISBN13: 9781561711888
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: S.P.I. Books
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Now is the time for all good men (and women)...

This was an important book when it was published in 1992. It's even MORE important now. Frankly, I'm not surprised it's "out of print" and it's probably even harder to find now. It is, however, worth the search. This country is in serious trouble. Now is the time, as they say, for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country. If you don't believe me -- read this book. Do whatever it takes to find it. A word to the wise is sufficient.

EVERYTHING THAT REAGAN AND BUSH DID NOT WANT YOU TO READ

Bainerman reviews a multitude of the dark stories from the Reagan/Bush administration. Although he bills himself as a "conspiracy theorist" and suggests that there is an underlying thread of conspiracy in many of the covert wrong-doings of the Reagan/Bush years I am not sold on that idea - but think the book has a great deal of importance that goes beyond whether you accept the conspiracy thesis or not. The story that everybody knows about is the Iran-Contra scandal. But there were numerous other stories - the Gander crash, the Lockerbie bombing, the Danny Casolaro suicide and the Inslaw case - which were not examined by the mainstream press with the through detail they deserved. What articles were written are scattered about and it would require a lot of time searching computer databases and hunting libraries to pull any of the relevant stories together. I don't think there is an underlying "conspiracy" - just that George Bush - a former spook in chief was running the country for almost 12 years (His fans aside, Reagan was not doing it - he was in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease as we now know and for all of those years and by all accounts of his behavior fit with this medical diagnosis (falling asleep at staff meetings, not bothering to open briefing notebooks, etc) , and Nancy may have done a great job looking after and covering for him but she was not running the country either). The man at the top was George Bush, quite compos mentis, and with the total absence of ethical faculties that are typical of politicians and certainly "covert operators". Not surprisingly a lot of his rather nasty projects were covert operations, and not a few of them were illegal and involved killing Americans citizens (interestingly our activities in Nicaragua and El Salvador and the "School of the Americas", its graduates, and their work do not figure largely in this book). Bainerman has done some interviewing of participants - but mostly the service he has rendere! d is to pull together the information that was published. It is a very carefully researched review of each of affair. In the end he lets the reader see what a mess of dangling ends and unresolved mysteries surround each of these events, but the reader is free to make there own judgement about what this all means. As always with a work of this nature a skeptical but non-specialist reader can only spot check the veracity of the authors use of published sources - this reader bothered to get hold of one of the articles and see if the use was fair and in context - and it was, and is fairly familiar with two of the stories (Casolaro and Pan Am 103) and Bainerman seems to have covered what is known quite well. It is unfortunate that the book did not get into the hands of a better publisher - the book lacks an index, and has a chatty style that could have used the control imposed by a good editor, and is poorly printed - typos and all. It is interesting to speculate why no major pu