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Bush lied: * Bush allowed the neocons to create the Office of Special Plans to circumvent normal intelligence vetting procedures, * he asked only for info the backed his views and thus is guilty of cherry-picking data, * he distorted CIA reports in public speeches by removing caveats and disagreements between government agencies, * he used false logic ("we know he had em cause he used em"), * he jumped the gun several times after the invasion, saying we had "found WMD", and * he allowed Cheney to continue to make statements that were being contradicted by the CIA....

July 1995 Maryland pension system decides to use more minority money managers. Fall 1996 Nathan A. Chapman Jr. buys Minority Equity Trust, a fund invested in by a collection of minority-owned firms. One MET client is state pension system. December 1996 Chapman, as new MET owner, signs contract with pension system to manage some of its money. January 1997 Chapman signs contract with Alan B. Bond making Bond a manager in MET. Gives Bond $10 million in pension money to invest. January 1998 Chapman gets additional $40 million in pension money; gives $5 million of that to Bond to invest....