I thought you all might find this interesting (Bush & the CNP)

[ck4829]

Bush speech coverup continues

Texas Governor George W. Bush's mysterious speech to the secretive Council for National Policy last October is still under wraps. To date, all efforts to learn what the Republican presidential hopeful said to the conservative group have failed. The CNP's elite membership is overwhelmingly Republican, anti-choice, antigay, and pro-gun. (It's roster can be found at http://www.buildingequality.us/ifas/cnp/text.html)
Bush's appearance at the clandestine meeting was first reported in the March/April Freedom Writer. On May 19, 2000, taking its cue from Freedom Writer, The New York Times probed the matter. According to the Times article, Ari Fleischer, a Bush spokesman, said, "When we go to meetings that are private, they remain private." Yet he commented, "As far as we know, there is no tape." Morton C. Blackwell, CNP's executive director said that the Bush campaign should have a copy of the tape, but added that Bush's people did not want the tape made available.
http://www.buildingequality.us/ifas/fw/0006/bush.html

In the past, the Institute for First Amendment Studies has found ways to obtain tapes of the CNP's closed-door meetings. The October meeting was no exception. However, the Bush tape was excluded from the set of tapes of the meetings.

I know a significant amount of information about the CNP and even have a group about it at Anti-CNP, and I find it very unusual that the CNP does not have a tape of the meeting as they always record their meetings.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. It is not unusual. Bush minions do not want what he said to be made public

Just add one more item to the very long list of things about Bush and his life that his people do not want to be made public.
Anyone who tries too hard, or even worse, succeeds against their wishes, will meet with an unfortunate accident involving a plane crash, an automobile accident, or they will suddenly have an overwhelming desire to commit suicide.

[ck4829]

3. Right

It's just my belief somebody went an extra mile to stop something from being known to the Public, and his meeting with the CNP back in '99 may be what Bush's agenda might have been really about.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. You are absolutely right. It is par for the course with Bush and his

minions. They only let the public hear what they want them to hear.
That is why I said it was not unusual. What would be unusual would be if that tape was leaked to the public.

[ChicanoPwr]

2. Can we say Tricky Dick and the missing 18 mins. n/t

[CoffeeCat]

5. What's frightening is...

...the PNAC scum are out there in full glory--praising their warmongering and fascist, evil dogma. They've even made their agenda public in memos--which reveal that they've been shopping around the Iraq war since Clinton.

So...if the PNAC psychopaths and their scary agenda is like an open book---it's a tad bit terrifying to contemplate a Republican group that is so secretive.

What could be worse than a strategy to start wars and kill many people, in a twisted effort to dominate the world?

[EC]

6. I have always wondered why they are so

hung up on guns...Like they are predicting a real need for them. It makes me wonder if they have plans on using them against us...

[baldguy]

7. This is interesting. See any familiar names?

The 2002 calendar year Form 990 return filed with the IRS lists the board of Directors as:

* Donald Paul Hodel President (former Secretary of Energy and former president of the Christian Coalition)
* T. Kenneth Cribb Jr Vice President
* James C Miller, III, Chairman
* John Seribante, Secretary/Treasurer
* Robert Fischer Director,
* Dr Dal Shealy, Director
* Howard Phillips Director
* Ken Raasch Director
* Mary Reilly Hunt Director
* Stuart W Epperson, Director
* Ann Drexel Director (also a Red Cross board member)
* Becky Norton Dunlop Director
* Jerome Ledzinski Director
* Grover Norquist Director
* E Peb Jackson Director

Staff members of the Board of Directors are:

* Steve Baldwin Executive Director (paid $157,391 in 2002)
* David Fenner, Director of MIS & Programs (paid $89,088 in 2002)
* Jennifer Rutledge Director of Finance & Administration (paid $57,504 in 2002)


Other members

Council for National Policy membership roster (http://www.seekgod.ca/topiccnp.htm), last updated July 2001.
Member Directory (http://www.buildingequality.us/ifas/cnp/index.html).

A copy of the membership roster obtained by Institute for First Amendment Studies, listed current and former members as including:

* Attorney General John Ashcroft (former member)
* Tommy Thompson,Health and Human Services Secretary (former member)
* Holland Coors and Jeffrey Coors of the Coors brewing company
* Rich DeVos Orlando Magic owner
* John Ankerberg, who believes that biblical prophecies were literal promises and are coming true;
* Dave Breese, who hosts The King Is Coming, a show devoted entirely to Christian eschatology.
* Chuck Missler, an Idaho radio host who has predicted an imminent invasion of Jerusalem by forces guided by the Antichrist.
* Pat Robertson former presidential candidate and Christian Coalition founder;
* Steve Stockman former Texas Republican Representative
* Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association.
* Rev. Rousas J. Rushdoony founder of Chalcedon Foundation. (deceased)
* Williams, the founder of BAMPAC, a political action committee that promotes black conservatism.
* Sam Moore, president of Thomas Nelson, the country's most successful Christian book publishing company.
* Henry Morris Prominent creationist
* Dora Kingsley political scientist
* John W. Whitehead founder of the Rutherford Institute
* Bob Jones III President, Bob Jones University
* Phyllis Schlafly
* Oliver North

Other members who list their membership in their biographical profiles include:

* John Taylor, the chairman and president of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy <5> (http://www.virginiainstitute.org/boards.php)
* Brent Bozell <6> (http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/aboutus/bozellbio.htm)

Mark Crispin Miller adds the following members:

* Tom DeLay
* Trent Lott
* Lock Faircloth
* Ed Meese
* Howard Ahmanson
* Richard Devose, founder of Amway
* Jerry Falwell
* Tim LaHaye, Author of the Left Behind Series,
* James Robison
* Lou Sheldon, traditional values coalition
* Rev. Sun Myung Moon


http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Council_for_National_Policy