Bush Official Caught Offering Access to Administration in Exchange for Donations to Bush Library

By Eric on July 14, 2008

It’s business-as-usual for the Bush Administration:

The Sunday Times reports Stephen Payne, a Bush pioneer and a political appointee to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, was caught on tape offering access to key members of the Bush administration inner circle in exchange for “six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.”

In an undercover video, Payne is seen promising to arrange a meeting for an exiled leader of Krygystan with Dick Cheney or Condoleezza Rice. (Not President Bush because “he doesn’t meet with a lot of former Presidents these days,” Payne says. “I don’t think he meets with hardly anyone.”) All it will take for him to arrange this high-level meeting, says Payne, is “a couple hundred thousand dollars, or something like that.”

Watch the video here.

Of course, Payne will claim “executive privilege” so he’ll never have to testify about any of this under oath. Bribery is yet another law that doesn’t apply to the Bush Administration.

Tags: George W. Bush, library

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