I’ve long had suspicions about how national politics really work. It obvious there is a lot going on behind the scenes. There were a number of scandals in the 1980s and early 1990s which got swept under the rug.

I’ve been reading about these scandals in the book Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed. Reed claims to have been a flight instructor for Contra pilots based outside of Mena, Arkansas in the mid-80s. His job was to train these pilots to fly dangerous resupply missions over the jungles of Nicaragua. While Reed was there, he discovered the planes which were flying out with guns, were flying back with cocaine! It was then that he decided to quit the mission. Along the way, he learned some interesting things about the Clinton and Bush families.

Reed was put on trial on trumped up mail fraud charges, allegedly set up by Clinton’s Arkansas State Police chief of security, Buddy Young. The government’s case fell apart and Reed was acquitted, but not before he was dragged through a grueling legal process. As he prepared to file suit against Young and Arkansas for libel – a case which would have uncovered some interesting relevations about Clinton and Bush – he was smeared in a Time magazine hatchet job.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Reed’s book is full of copies of receipts from the meetings he attended, as well as court documents, photographs, and other items. While few show who was at those meetings, they do seem to corroborate his accounts. The way various government agencies denied Reed’s defense discovery requests with the excuse of “national security” seems to corroborate his accounts as well.

The long and short of it is that Reed (and his murdered partner, Buddy Seal) discovered that the “Bush boys” – Jeb and George W. – got caught trafficking in cocaine. As a result, George Sr. delivers some coke to the Clinton Governor’s mansion in an effort to create some dirt on Clinton. Clinton loaned out his state for CIA use.