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What if there were a fraud worse than Enron and no one did anything about it?
In United States v. George W. Bush et. al., former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega brings her twenty years of experience and her passion for justice to the most important case of her career. The defendants are George W Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Colin Powell. The crime is tricking the nation into war, or, in legal terms, conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Ms. de la Vega has reviewed the evidence, researched the law, drafted an indictment, and in this lively, accessible book, presented it to a grand jury. If the indictment and grand jury are both hypothetical, the facts are tragically real Over half of all Americans believe the president misled the country into a war that has left 2,500 hundred American soldiers and countless Iraqis dead. The cost is $350 billion -- and counting.
The legal question is Did the president and his team use the same techniques as those used by Enron’s Ken Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, and fraudsters everywhere -- false pretenses, half-truths, deliberate omissions -- in order to deceive Congress and the American public?
Take advantage of this rare opportunity to "sit" with the grand jurors as de la Vega presents a case of prewar fraud that should persuade any fair-minded person who loves this country as much as she so obviously does. Faced with an ongoing crime of such magnitude, she argues, we can not simply shrug our shoulders and walk away.
Ebook United States v George W Bush et al Elizabeth De La Vega 9781583227565 Books
"Let me draw an analogy to Elizabeth Kolbert writing in the New Yorker about chimate change, where she lays out a reporter's travelogue rather than making a global warming argument on principle -- but where, after you have finally been carried through the story, you draw your own conclusions quite easily because of the depth of the reporting.
That's what de la Vega does for our national trauma since the saber-rattling started in the summer of 2002. This is a quite serious analysis of why a beyond-Enron-scale fraud was committed by Bush et al in their systematic misleading of Congress and the public.
Read it and weep. But she does it with an obvious expertise (as an Assistant US Attorney who specialized in fraud cases), combined with the writer's technique of being a flea on the wall of the grand-jury room as FBI agents present the evidence for an indictment. It's not partisan but a just-the-facts organized so that the pattern becomes obvious. The analogies to the Enron fraud trial are particularly telling."
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United States v George W Bush et al Elizabeth De La Vega 9781583227565 Books Reviews
- This book's wording should have been included in the indictment of the Bush administration. Ms De La Vega is not a "liberal" she's a former prosecutor who knows criminal law and can clearly document a crime that was perpetrated upon the American people. It's too bad we are "looking forward" instead of cleaning up the mess left by this gang.
If they get away with it-and so far they have-it sets a horrifying precedent for this nation as long as it stands. - Methodical and vital reading... A must to better understand the "who, what, when, where" of Iraq and hopefully how to avoid future repetition.
- (USvB) United States v. George W. Bush et al. by Elizabeth de la Vega
(PBM) The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi
(PvB) The People V. Bush One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way by Charlotte Dennett
Because these three excellent books, each dealing with prosecuting George W. Bush, Richard Chaney, and others for crimes they committed between 2001 and 2008, nicely complement each other, it seems appropriate to review them together.
USvB, the shortest* and first to be written (© 2006), is an account of a fictional but realistic presentation to a grand jury of an indictment for "Conspiracy to defraud the United States in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371." (p. 27). The defendants are George W. Bush, Richard B. Chaney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald M. Rumsfeld, and Colin M. Powell It was written by an experienced former federal prosecutor. Albeit the witnesses presented to the fictional grand jury are fictional, the facts they testify to are real.
All three are well-written, but because it is mostly narrative, some may find USvB easier reading.
PBM, the second to be written (© 2008) is the longest* of the three, albeit Bugliosi repeats himself quite a bit, I assume because he has found it effective in making presentations to juries to reemphasize the important points often. As the title suggests, Bugliosi presents a very strong case for the conviction of Bush (and Cheney, Rice, Rove, and Rumsfeld, at least) for murder in the deaths of the more than 4000 American servicemen who have been killed in Iraq. He establishes that the U.S. Attorney General, or the attorney general of any state, or the district attorney of any county of which a resident has been killed in G.W. Bush's Iraq war, has jurisdiction to prosecute, and he establishes that because Bush, Cheney, et. al. committed fraud against the United States by lying to congress to obtain congressional authority to wage war against a nation, Iraq, which was not an imminent threat to U.S., and by thereafter ordering American servicemen and women to fight in Iraq, knowing that some would be killed, Bush et. al. knowingly and intentionally and unlawfully caused the deaths of Americans. The fact that Bush used Iraqis as instruments to commit those murders instead of performing them personally is not a legal defense, any more than it would have been had he hired contract killers to do his dirty work.
PvB, the most recent (© 2010) is a partial autobiography of Charlotte Dennett, who ran for Attorney General of Vermont, promising, if elected, to prosecute Bush for the murders of Vermonters who had been killed in Bush's illegal war. She lost the election, in part because her incumbent opponent, William Sorrell, dismissed her with a false statement that she could not prosecute because the State of Vermont had no jurisdiction. As Attorney General, Sorrell knew, or should have known, that Vermont did, in fact have that jurisdiction, but his lie was widely quoted by Vermont news media, while they declined to report Dennett's reply that established that Vermont did indeed have jurisdiction. So many, probably most voters, were left with the erroneous impression that she didn't know what she was talking about, and thus presumably was incompetent to be Attorney General.
Any one two, or all three of these books are well worth reading, and should be in every school, college, or public library.
* I have determined, by counting samples of each, that the amount of text in the three books is approximately in the ratio USvBPvBPBM 478
(...) - A peek into what would be the most critical grand jury room of our time. To the point dialogue laced with humorous banter, serve to crystallize the meticulously researched and documented facts into an enjoyable read. One of the most dire happenings in our nations history that goes by like a "who dun it." Ms. de la Vega's "just the facts Mam" style is void of the shrill and emotional rhetoric that might allow this subject matter to be dismissed as a partisan witch hunt.
Readers waiting for the next protest march to begin as well as those waking up from a six year coma should consider this required reading.
The service Ms. de la Vega has done with this work is the stuff of true patriotic heroism. I Thank Her, it remains up to the rest of us to see that this is step one not the end of the story. - Let me draw an analogy to Elizabeth Kolbert writing in the New Yorker about chimate change, where she lays out a reporter's travelogue rather than making a global warming argument on principle -- but where, after you have finally been carried through the story, you draw your own conclusions quite easily because of the depth of the reporting.
That's what de la Vega does for our national trauma since the saber-rattling started in the summer of 2002. This is a quite serious analysis of why a beyond-Enron-scale fraud was committed by Bush et al in their systematic misleading of Congress and the public.
Read it and weep. But she does it with an obvious expertise (as an Assistant US Attorney who specialized in fraud cases), combined with the writer's technique of being a flea on the wall of the grand-jury room as FBI agents present the evidence for an indictment. It's not partisan but a just-the-facts organized so that the pattern becomes obvious. The analogies to the Enron fraud trial are particularly telling. - Elizabeth hits the nail on the head. This is a 5 star fantasy, I can imagine being in the courtroom and sitting on my hands so I don't jump up and cheer when she twists the knife!
Great book! Thanks for giving me a great fantasy...now let's visualize impeachment! - I read Ms. De la Vega's book in two sittings -- hard to put down. She makes a clear, easy to read, convincing case that -- as most American's by now believe -- we were defrauded into the Iraq war by Bush and his administration. I am an avid reader of newspapers, so much of the information was not new to me, but it was startingly to see it all laid out. Account by account falsehoods and misleading representations, day by day, lead up to the infuriating conclusion that this war was truly a war of choice.
I disagree with the reader who stated that one's enjoyment depends on politics. This book should be required reading by every American -- our country was lead into war. We need to hold those responsible accountable. There is nothing partisan or political about the legal analysis.
Only quibble is -- as the Publisher's Review quote notes -- the attempts at humor and conversations with the grand jurors seems forced and cutesy. Stick with the facts of your case -- they are an absorbing read all alone.
