Hack Attack: The GOP journalist gunning for Bush in New Hampshire.

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http://www.nypress.com/17/2/news&columns/zen.cfm

"Although the facts of the Bush family/Nazi Germany connection have been whirling around in cyberspace for years, veteran journalist John Buchanan was among the first to confirm the story in print. Now he’s running against George W. in the New Hampshire Republican primary.

In January 2003, Buchanan got involved in the antiwar movement and began researching war profiteering in the Bush administration by way of such companies as the Carlyle Group, Engineered Support Systems, BioPort, Halliburton, Bechtel and Wackenhut. His investigation ultimately led to a screenplay called Project Clear-Vision, taken from the name of an actual CIA anthrax-biowarfare project that may have violated the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.

"The plot of the script," he told me, "is that the German principals of Bayer AG, which came out of I.G. Farben after WW II, blackmailed Daddy Bush with the ‘Nazi past’ of the family into allowing the anthrax letters to happen so Cipro sales could save Bayer US from bankruptcy. I got a really hotshot young turk agent in Hollywood who told me on September 2 that he could the script if I could ‘prove’ the Nazi past and publish the documentation. So, technically speaking, motivated more by sheer greed than patriotism, I set out to sell a movie script for millions of dollars by landing a huge scoop."

He spent a few days at the National Archives and the Library of Congress, where he found "smoking gun" information in the personal papers of former New York governor Averell Harriman, only to learn that the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC News, CNN–even his hometown paper, the Miami Herald–all refused to acknowledge the documentation of his discovery. He ended up in the fortnightly New Hampshire Gazette, which claims to be the oldest paper in America, founded in 1756. After his first article appeared in the Gazette on Friday, October 10, more than 60 web sites around the globe picked up the story. (Analysis of the Bush/Nazi connection is also found in Kevin Phillips’ new American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, Viking, 2004.)"