Prescott Bush, his son, George H. Bush and grandson George W. Bush were all initiates and members of Skull & Bones, as is US Senator John F. Kerry, but they enjoy elite company. Alphonso Taft , father of future President William H. Taft, was a member alongside William H. Russell in original the Class of 1833. Bonesmen have held an extraordinary high rate of high level positions in government, business and the publishing world including three U.S. Presidents, two Chief Justices of the United States, over twenty U.S. Senators, U.S. congressmen, cabinet officers, judges, state officials, a CIA director (George H. Bush), Secretary of State, Director of National Security (under JFK).

Prominent Bonesmen include Henry Luce, publisher of Time magazine, Publisher William F. Buckley, John Thomas Daniels, founder Archer Daniels Midland, Harold Stanley, founder of Morgan Stanley, investment banker, Alfred Cowles, Cowles Communication Henry P. Davison, senior partner Morgan Guaranty Trust, Pierre Jay, first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York William Draper III , the Defense Department, UN and Import-Export Bank Dean Witter, Jr., investment banker, W. Averell Harriman, the diplomat and confidant of U.S. presidents, Senator Jonathan Bingham (Potter Stewart, Supreme Court Justice, Senator John Chaffe, Harry Payne Whitney, husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt, investment banker, Russell W. Davenport, editor Fortune Magazine and creator of the Fortune 500 list, Evan G. Galbraith, Ambassador to France and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, Richard Gow, president Zapata Oil, Amory Howe Bradford, husband of Carol Warburg Rothschild and general manager for the New York Times, C. E. Lord ('49), Comptroller of the Currency, Winston Lord, Chairman of CFR, Ambassador to China and assistant Secretary of State in the Clinton administration, among noteworthy others.
Members of Yale’s elitist Skull & Bones secret society, with their penchant for the cryptic, have invaded every corner of our society, including the seat of the most powerful position in the world, the US Presidency.

"My senior year (at Yale University) I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society," President Bush wrote in his autobiography, "so secret, I can't say anything more."

Fellow Bonesmen have added George W. Bush throughout his adulthood. He received early business financing from members and they were there when he needed a job, investors and campaign assistance. Even the purchase of his Major League baseball team involved at least one Bonesman. As president, Bush has appointed fellow Bonesmen to high-level positions, including Edward McNally, the general counsel of the Office on Homeland Security and senior associate counsel on national security. One of his first social gatherings at the White House was a Skull and Bones reunion. Later Bush feigned ignorance when asked about Skull & Bones: "The thing is so secret that I'm not even sure it still exists," he replied.
Which contradicts his previous admission: “My senior year (at Yale University) I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society."
Tim Russert interviewed President George W. Bush on Sunday February 8th, 2004 and asked about his relationship to Skull and Bones. The President confirms he is a member by saying he can't talk about it:

President Bush: Politics. I mean, this is—you know, if you close your eyes and listen carefully to what you just said, it sounds like the year 2000 all over again.

Russert: You were both (presidents George H. Bush & George W. Bush) in Skull and Bones, the secret society.
President Bush: It's so secret we can't talk about it.

One might argue that Skull and Bones is just a elite college fraternity or old boys club. But there is no escaping the fact it is suspicious and dangerous for leaders of open and democratic societies to be members of secret organizations whose agendas hidden from the public they claim to serve. And as adamantly as Bush denies his connection to Skull & Bones, his associations with known members are too numerous to be coincidences.

President Bush enlisted five fellow Skull & Bones members to serve under his administration. Most recently, William Donaldson, a Skull and Bones initiate of 1953, became the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Like the President, Donaldson has taken the Skull & Bones oath of silence.

Is it a coincidence that the US government suddenly prioritizes secrecy when a Skull and Bones president is in power?
We have proof George W. Bush has brought his penchant for secrecy into his presidency:

After 9/11, without telling Congress, Bush assembled a shadow government assigned to secret bunkers on the East Coast. He attempted to cut off several members of Congress from classified information about his so-called anti-terrorist campaign.

In October 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft released a memo encouraging federal agencies to withhold as much information as possible from the public.

A month later, just before documents from the Reagan-Bush administration were to be released, Bush signed an executive order severely hindering public access to the former presidents' records. (What was Reagan hiding? He was not a Skull and Bones member, but the Yale secret society has been tied to other secret societies including the Illuminati, Freemasons, and other Ivy league societies.)

Bush-appointed Assistant Attorney General Robert McCallum, a member of Bush's 1968 Skull and Bones class, recently filed pleadings in U.S. District Court seeking to extend executive privilege to any government official in pardon cases making information on presidential pardons more secret than it has ever been.

The USA Patriot Act, which Bush eagerly signed, lets the FBI - with permission from a secret Washington "spy court" - view consumer records from nearly any source.

Pulitzer prize winning journalist William Safire wrote of the Patriot Act: “Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as a virtual, centralized grand database.

“To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you — passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance — and you have the super snoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen.”

Bush also signed legislation that jails or fines journalists who publish sensitive leaks, essentially reviving the Official Secrecy Act that President Clinton vetoed. Bush seems intent on reversing everything Bill Clinton did while in office, including any progress.

Bush has a "fetish for secrecy," Vanderbilt University professor emeritus Hugh Davis Graham, now deceased, told the National Journal earlier this year.

But what lies behind George W. Bush’s fetish for secrecy? Surely his furtive behavior is not just the dregs of a collegiate membership to an elitist secret society like Skull and Bones that enmeshes its impressionable initiates in cloak-and-dagger antics.

Is Skull & Bones merely “a lot of mumbo-jumbo, but it means a lot to the people who are in it,” according to Alexandra Robbins, author of an expose on the Skull & Bones titled, “Secrets of the Tomb.” Even Robbins admitted to being threatened and harassed by Bonesmen, including a fellow journalist, when she published her less-than-meaty findings on the Skull & Bones.

On the Skull & Bones clubhouse on Yale campus, journalist and Yale alumni Ron Rosenbaum says, “It's this sepulchral, tomblike, windowless, granite, sandstone bulk that you can't miss. And I lived next to it. I had passed it all the time. And during the initiation rites, you could hear strange cries and whispers coming from the Skull and Bones tomb.”

Is there more to Skull and Bones than its facade as a mystical quasi-occultist secret society for elitist rich kids? Their strange rituals, which include mock slayings, nocturnal initiations, and the sharing of their “sexual autobiography” with members during a fireside tell-all, are certainly less important than the relationships–the bonds of power and influence-between Bonesmen that they carry throughout their privileged lives and often lofty careers.

Bonesmen have in fact wielded power far beyond their college careers, became founders of powerful corporations including Time Inc., directors of the C.I.A., Secretaries of State and National Security Advisors–these men include those who made the decision to drop the Hiroshima bomb, invade the Bay of Pigs and plunge us into Vietnam, the Tafts, the Bundys, the Buckleys, the Harrimans, the Lovetts–all were members of Skull & Bones and know the secrets behind its secrets. Surely there is more behind this secret society than college boy rituals and cultish antics.

Does Skull & Bones have something to do with the real world power wielded by those with bonds to it? What is the truth behind the unspoken ties, the obsession with the clandestine, the nods and winks with which power is exercised by Bonesmen?

“I think there is a deep and legitimate distrust in America for power and privilege that are cloaked in secrecy. It's not supposed to be the way we do things,” says Ron Rosenbaum, who’s investigated Skull & Bones for 30 years. “We're supposed to do things out in the open in America. And so that any society or institution that hints that there is something hidden is, I think, a legitimate subject for investigation.”

If we examine the disarranged and self-contradictory behavior and public statements of President Bush and his closest advisers leading up to and throughout the second Iraqi war we glimpse a valuable example of how ambiguity and secrecy are applied by Bonesmen.

George W. Bush circumvented the best intentions and urgings by the US Congress, the United Nations, the US Public and the International community to proceed with caution and organization. George W. Bush used secrecy, lies and feigned good-old-boy charm and went to war on falsified information and so-called faulty intelligence.

Saddam Hussein and Iraq had no connection to the terrorism of 9/11. Saddam Hussein was not hiding weapons of mass destructions, chemical weapons, nor organized groups of Al Qaeda.

What is George W. Bush hiding?









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