Surveillance – Did The Chinese Try to Blackmail The Bushes?

I’ve always wondered about this one with Neil Bush, Brother to George W:

The Bush divorce, completed in April after 23 years of marriage, was prompted in part by Bush’s relationship with another woman. He admitted in the deposition that he previously had sex with several other women while on trips to Thailand and Hong Kong at least five years ago.

The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and had sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them.

“Mr. Bush, you have to admit it’s a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her,” Brown said.

“It was very unusual,” Bush said.

I remember a guy on Free Republic who worked in a high-level position for IBM, if I recall correctly. He said when he was promoted to a position where he had do deal with overseas accounts he had to take a course the company offered on industrial espionage. It began with a video. A security specialist made reservations at a hotel in France under the identity of a mid-level company employee. He had a fax in his room, and wifi, and all the business bells and whistles. When he arrived, he went piece by piece through the room. There was a camera over the bed to catch company passwords typed into a laptop (and presumably other bedroom activities), the fax had a second scanner hidden in it and hooked to a memory device. The phone was bugged, there were microphones and cameras throughout the room, and other stuff I forget. The point was this was just a business room in a hotel with a mid-level foreign employee staying at it, and yet it was set up like a sound stage. The implication was that this was normal for industrial espionage, even in friendly countries.

Then you go to Neil Bush, who hears a knock on the door, and thinks nothing of banging the girl he never met, who is there specifically for that purpose, without him asking for it, or even knowing where she came from. After she leaves, he never thinks of it again. Then he does it again and again. Do you think any of that might be on video somewhere in the world? Bear in mind, he is the kid of a former President and Director of the CIA. Didn’t Dad ever have a talk with him? Or at that level do the melonheads think they are immune from such petty maneuvers?

What is interesting is that his wife knew about it, and apparently had evidence which forced him to admit it in court. How did she find out? I always wondered if when W. was elected somebody was approached and told to give him a message. Maybe W. rebuffed the Chicoms offer to become an asset, and then they made good on their threats and sent the pictures and video to Neil’s wife. I really don’t see how else she found out.

Neil was piss poor in the security department elsewhere, but it never seems to matter:

In May of 2002, Neil Bush found himself alone in his hotel room in Dubai, where he was trying to secure financing for his new company Ignite! Learning, an educational software company geared to exploit his brother’s No Child Left Behind education strategy. Neil sat before his laptop computer and pounded out a long email to his wife of 23 years, informing her that he wanted a divorce. Oddly, given his track record financial coups, Neil’s ungentlemanly missive wallows in concerns about the family’s frail bank account.

“Your comments at our pool-side dinner with the kids that you and I should race to see who could make a million dollars faster, your belief expressed in different ways that I have not made enough money, your belief that it was easy to make money, and that Jamal Daniel’s plotting or Dad’s influence will be the magic answer to our financial woes all cause me consternation and reflect the bitterness and anger that has come from the loneliness you described Friday,” Neil wrote. “It is very clear that we are failing to meet each other’s core needs. We’re almost out of money and I’ve lost my patience for being compared to my brothers, for being put down for my inability to make money, and tired of not being loved. I’m sure you have felt abandoned and a deep sense of loneliness.”

Of course, in his e-confessional Neil Bush didn’t feel compelled to come clean about the sexcapades with the Asian hookers or reveal the fact that he’d fallen in love with Maria Anderson, the wife of Houston oil baron, Robert Andrews, a woman Sharon Bush would later denounce in public as “Neil’s Mexican whore.”

At the very moment Neil hit the send button on this brutal adieu, he was penning Maria breathlessly written love letters, pining for the time when they would be both be freed from the shackles of their marriages.

He is overseas, sending highly personal emails to his wife, and then writing intimate letters to the wife of one of his investors who he is sleeping with on the side.

It is almost like these guys at the top think nothing matters. If you look a their history they may be right, to some extent. In that article, Neil messed up business deal after business deal, and with each failure another check effortlessly materialized to replace what was lost. Maybe at that level everyone does that, so they don’t worry about it. Or maybe doing that allows the people at the top to have confidence that they can control you, and so the hidden hand promotes you ahead of the more honest men who can’t be controlled. I don’t know.

More and more I can see how our nation’s economic and fiscal situations are as bad as they are though.

Apocalypse cometh™