New reports confirm that former President Bill Clinton coached Dubai officials on how to deal with the port controversy weeks prior to the initial political storm. Meanwhile, Senator Hillary Clinton opposes the port deal, and has introduced legislation against it.

I am waiting for the Democratic and “progressive” voices, who view the Clintons as deities, to explain this one away.

This is not simply Bush-Republican counter-sleaze, although it will be used as such. The spin from the Clinton camp (“Bill and Hillary collegially disagree on many issues, while working together for America,” “foreign dignitaries routinely ask the former president for advice,” etc.) is equally deceptive: the Clintons have always played the strategy of tension, from opposing sides, like good covert operatives.

The story merely confirms how the American political elite is one criminal aristocracy. The fact is, the deeply-connected Bush and Clinton families have worked together for decades, and I am not referring to the former presidents acting as tsunami relief shills.

The Iran-Contra drug trafficking operations of the 1980s and 1990s, and the history of Mena, Arkansas, exhaustively documented in the late Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance, Al Martin’s The Conspirators, John Cummings’ Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, and Daniel Hopsicker’s Barry and the Boys (also see the article here, and a more recent look here) is but one fine example of Bush-Clinton cooperation.

A pox on both houses of the Empire.