{"id":387401,"date":"2018-12-02T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fathers-and-sons-with-apologies-to-turgenev-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-12-02T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T02:47:07","slug":"fathers-and-sons-with-apologies-to-turgenev-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fathers-and-sons-with-apologies-to-turgenev-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers and Sons ( With Apologies to Turgenev) \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a story worthy of the great Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, in the Bushes\u2019 case the sins of the son were visited upon the father, who neglected an opportunity to stop them from happening, as Ray McGovern explains.<\/span>
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By Ray McGovern<\/b><\/a><\/span>
Special to Consortium News <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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What a celebration is in store when the other three of the gang eventually join them. They are Robert McFarlane, the CIA\u2019s Alan Fiers, and former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams \u2014 all of whom had already pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress before Bush Sr. let them off the hook.<\/span><\/p>\n

It caused an outcry in some circles, as <\/span>The New York Times<\/i><\/span> reported<\/a><\/span>: \u201cBush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails \u2018Cover-Up.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lessons for Today<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

At risk of stating the obvious, is it not clear that, by the time the Supreme Court made Bush Jr. president, CIA operatives had long since internalized the idea they could literally get away with murder? It is not widely known, but several of the detainees in CIA custody following 9\/11 died under torture. This came despite the lawyerly advice of Jonathan Fredman, Esq, chief counsel to CIA\u2019s Counterterrorist Center on torture guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n

On October 2,…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a story worthy of the great Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev, in the Bushes\u2019 case the sins of the son were visited upon the father, who neglected an opportunity to stop them from happening, as Ray McGovern explains. By Ray McGovernSpecial to Consortium News Picture the late George H. W. Bush being welcomed with open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}