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Amid the growing public furor over manipulation of prewar intelligence about Iraq, and residual public disgust over the appointment of inept presidential crony Michael Brown to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Bush administration packed the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (FIAB) with campaign donors.
"President Bush last week appointed nine campaign contributors, including three longtime fundraisers, to his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a 16-member panel of individuals from the private sector who advise the president on the quality and effectiveness of U.S. intelligence efforts," reported Newsweek's web edition on November 2.
Mr. Bush reappointed William DeWitt, "an Ohio businessman who has raised more than $300,000 for the president's campaigns, for a third two-year term on the panel," continued the report. "Originally appointed in 2001, just a few ...