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Benjamin Ginsberg, Esq.
Chief Counsel
Bush-Cheney '04, Inc.
P.O. Box 10648
Arlington, VA 22210
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President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
August 25, 2004
Dear Mr. President,
Tomorrow's New York Times will feature a front page story revealing a link between the Bush/Cheney
campaign and "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" – the organization whose creation and agenda I have no
recollection of you explicitly ordering during our 2pm conference call of November 17, 2003.
Of course, there is no cause for perceptible alarm. The particular link they've discovered –
that I was providing the Swift Vets with free legal advice – is not technically unethical or illegal… yet.
In keeping with your clearly stated policy, said advice was offered purely of my own personal volition
– and not in my professional capacity as a highly-compensated employee of the one organization on
earth which stands to directly profit from its application.
On an unrelated note, I have decided to resign my position as national counsel to Bush/Cheney '04.
Perhaps in some small, non-patently manipulative way, my purely coincidental departure "to spend
more time with my family" will help refocus the news media on the big questions that really matter –
namely, just how big a boo-boo did John Kerry get 35 years ago?
I hope that going forward, nosey journalists will think twice before daring to give voters the outrageously
false impression that you or anyone in your employ would ever resort to secrecy or mendacity to conceal
ethically bankrupt and/or outright criminal campaign-related initiatives.
Yours Sincerely,
PS: The laughing shadow rides at dawn. Alpha Charlie 88 electoral rewind. Operation Disneyworld Darkie
Cage is cleared for takeoff.
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