The TimesOnline has Bush fundraiser and a member of his Homeland Security Advisory Council Stephen Payne on tape offering a reporter posing as a representative of an "exiled former central Asian president high level access to executive branch employees in return for a cash contribution to the proposed Bush library.You can watch the "transaction" here.TOL makes it clear that this kind of thing happens with every administration and that there is nothing illegal about it. And one must admit, it is a far cry from President Clinton offering pardons for library donations as was almost certainly the case in the Marc Rich affair where immediately after Rich was pardoned, his wife made a million dollar donation to the Clinton library.Still, it is shocking to listen to Payne rattle off the officials that the "central Asian president" would be able to meet if he gave $600,000 or more to Payne's lobbying group Worldwide Strategic Partners. Payne...(Read Full Post)