South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon has long boasted of his ability to "hook" politicians by putting money into their pockets and into their political machines. But Moon's most important catch may have come from the millions of dollars sunk into the powerful Bush family - and the subsequent lack of U.S. interest in evidence of Moon's criminal activities.

For the full story of how Rev. Moon has planted his hook in the mouths of the Bush family and other prominent Republicans, go to the independent ConsortiumNews.Com.

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The separation of the Bush political machine from organized crime is often like the thin layer of rock between a seemingly ordinary surface and volcanic activity rumbling below. Sometimes, the lava spews forth and the illusion of normalcy is shattered, reports Robert Parry of the independent Consortium News.

Criminal cases already reported on by the mainstream, corporate press are reminders, Parry says, "of George H.W. Bush's long record of unsavory associations, including with a Nicaraguan contra network permeated by cocaine traffickers, Rev. Sun Myung Moon's multi-million-dollar money-laundering operations, and anti-communist Cuban extremists tied to acts of international terrorism."

Where are the best investigative reporters at America's top newspapers and why are they not on this story?

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