I think most of this was covered in FAMILY OF SECRETS: The Bush Dynasty book from 2009, can’t remember the author’s name at moment, but he was the writer who was on the phone at ground zero with his LA Times editor when Building Seven fell in front of him.
For us FReepers, we have too slowly caught on to the dirty tricks of Rove and his GOPe. He is well known for his “paper trail fake-outs”. Such as typing up windshield flyers and signing them “the McCain campaign” during the Bush V McCain primary fight in 2000. (That flyer became debate fodder within a week, because Rove wanted to make it look like McCain had broken a campaign promise in the fake flyer; and how could McCain deny it plausibly? Bush held the flyer in his hand at the debate.)
We have to remember to what lengths the GOPe machine will go, as if their attacks on Palin, starting within the Bush White House in 2008 when she first was picked by McCain... to the burgeoning onslaught now as Trump is ruining Rove’s GOPe Roadmap to 2016 Victory.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/09/gope-2016-road-map-to-victory-tree-house-challenge/
Latest update on Rove’s chicanery with his Jeb roadmap here:
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/13/the-gope-roadmap-status-update-and-the-event-horizon/
I believe FAMILY OF SECRETS details all the stuff about Bush’s pilot days. But read it first before you dismiss the idea that Rove wasn’t doing a triple play fake out on FR conservatives with Rathergate. It becomes quite obvious when you understand the objective.
Correction: We have to remember to what lengths the GOPe machine will go, as if their attacks on Palin, starting within the Bush White House in 2008 when she first was picked by McCain weren’t enough.... to the burgeoning onslaught now as Trump is ruining Rove’s GOPe Roadmap to 2016 Victory.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/09/gope-2016-road-map-to-victory-tree-house-challenge/