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For Immediate Release - Office of the Press Secretary - August 24, 2004 - 10:11 A.M. (EST)

LETTER FROM BUSH/CHENEY '04 CHIEF COUNSEL BEJAMIN GINSBERG OFFERING IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION FOLLOWING REVELATIONS OF ETHICAL AND LEGAL CONDUCT
Formal Communication to the President

Benjamin Ginsberg, Esq.
Chief Counsel
Bush-Cheney '04, Inc.
P.O. Box 10648
Arlington, VA 22210
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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