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Did Our Leaders Lie to Us? Do We Even Care?
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by Robert Steinback
Miami Herald
Wednesday 30 April 2003
Now that wasn't so bad, was it?"
One of my pro-war acquaintances said this in a reassuring, not
gloating, manner. His tone was a congenial gesture in the wake of our
heated arguments over the Iraq War in recent weeks; we had remained
tensely civil.
I shrugged. Indeed, the shooting war in Iraq had -- from an American
vantage point -- gone well. Relatively few casualties on our side;
surviving Iraqis clearly pleased to be rid of Saddam Hussein, if wary
of our presence.
This summation, of course, ignores many unanswered questions. So I
asked him one.
"Would it bother you if we were to discover that George Bush lied
about the case for going to war?" I asked.
He knew what I was referring to. His blunt answer left my jaw
hanging.
"Everyone knows he lied about weapons of mass destruction being the
point of the war."
Just a few weeks ago, any statement from me that Bush's case for war
was riddled with inconsistencies and illogic would have brought swift
and fierce condemnation from this fellow.
Now, basking in the glow of military conquest -- and confronted by a
thus-far futile search for chemical and biological weapons -- this
hawk breezily conceded the point while also waving it away as
inconsequential.
Have we become a country that wears its hypocrisy openly and proudly?
We Americans have always had a penchant for creative self-delusion.
We chafe, for example, at corruption in government, yet routinely
reelect the scoundrels who perpetrate it. We demand both services and
cuts in the taxes that pay for them.
But it seems the agony of Sept. 11 has pushed us into an altogether
new realm, where we don't even care if our rhetoric makes sense, as
long as we're led to a feel-good conclusion. The joy of kicking butt
obliterates the need to make an honest case for war.
Wasn't it just four years ago -- I reminded my acquaintance -- that a
roiling posse of critics piously preached how utterly unacceptable it
was for a president to be excused even for a piddling lie that had
absolutely no impact on the lives of any non-Beltway American? Bill
Clinton was impeached -- impeached! -- for not admitting an intern had
performed a sex act on him in the Oval Office.
Now there is plausible doubt that George Bush and Colin Powell were
telling us the whole truth when they pronounced, not as a possibility
but a fact, that Hussein had these terrible weapons and could at any
moment instigate a terrible strike on America.
Bush dismissed the efforts of chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix,
whose teams searched for evidence of the chemical and biological
weapons that Hussein allegedly possessed, and found nothing. We must
go to war anyway, Bush told us, because Hussein refuses to disarm.
Well, where is it all?
Our troops swept across Iraq in three weeks and secured oil wells
within hours. Didn't we have a priority list of potential weapons
depots to seize and secure? Did we even know where to start looking?
Now the administration is all but giving up the search, saying it
hopes Iraqi informants will eventually lead us to the stuff. If we
didn't know where it was, how did we know it was so grave a threat
that war was essential?
Did Bush mislead us? Was the American public duped into supporting a
war that killed 128 Americans, 31 Britons and thousands of Iraqis,
damaged U.S. prestige around the world and may have worsened, rather
than improved, U.S. security?
Oh, who cares -- we won the war!
At least Bush wasn't lying about sex in the Oval Office! We'd have
impeached him for that.
And, hey, Bush wasn't under oath, as was Clinton -- although it would
be nice to believe swearing honesty wouldn't be necessary when a
president addresses the nation.
I don't regard my hawkish acquaintance as a hypocrite; for sure, his
brutal honesty makes him a rare breed.
But we're heading for big trouble as a nation if we aren't even
concerned that our heads of state may be manipulating us by
manipulating the truth.
In a nation where hypocrisy is rewarded, expect more lies.
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8-13-03
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A Bigger, Badder Sequel to Iran-Contra
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By Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service
August 13, 2003
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The specter of the Iran-Contra affair is haunting Washington. Some of
the people and countries are the same, and so are the methods –
particularly the pursuit by a network of well-placed individuals of
a covert, parallel foreign policy that is at odds with official
policy.
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Boiled down to its essentials, the Iran-Contra affair was about a
small group of officials based in the National Security Council (NSC)
and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that ran an "off-the-books"
operation to secretly sell arms to Iran in exchange for hostages.
The picture being painted by various insider sources in the media
suggests a similar but far more ambitious scheme at work.
Taken collectively, what these officials describe and what is already
on the public record suggests:
the existence of a disciplined network of zealous, like-minded
individuals.
Centered in Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith's
office and
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around Richard Perle in the Defense Policy Board in the Pentagon,
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this exclusive group of officials operates under the aegis of:
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(1)Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz,
(2)Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and
(3)Vice President ***** Cheney.
This network includes high-level political appointees, such as:
(4) Undersecretary of State John Bolton,
who are scattered around several other key bureaucracies,
notably in the:
(5)State Department,
(6)the NSC staff, and
most importantly, in Cheney's office.
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Cheney, of course, has a direct link to:
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Bush (and all the heads of agencies),
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while his powerful chief of staff and
national security adviser,
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, also enjoys exceptional access and
influence.
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Indeed, the two men's frequent visits
(as well as those of another DPB member,
former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich)
to CIA headquarters "before" the Iraq war
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have been cited by retired and anonymous intelligence officers as
having "actively intimidated analysts who disagreed"
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with the more sensational assessments about
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Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and
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ties to al-Qaeda
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produced by Feith's office.
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Oliver North and his cohorts used the proceeds to sustain the
Nicaraguan contras – U.S.-sponsored rebels fighting Managua's
left-wing government –
in defiance of both a congressional ban and of official U.S. policy
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as enunciated by the State Department and President Ronald Reagan.
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There was some hint of a parallel policy apparatus dating back just
after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
It was known early on, for example, that the Pentagon leadership,
"without notice" to:
the State Department,
the NSC, or
the CIA,
convened its advisory DPB, (Daily Presidential Briefing)
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headed by Richard Perle,
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to discuss attacking Iraq within days of the attacks.
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The three agencies were also kept in the dark about
"a mission undertaken immediately afterward"
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by former CIA director and DPB member,
James Woolsey
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to London
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to gather intelligence about possible links
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between Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda,
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a move that suggested that:
the CIA or
the Pentagon's own Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
could not be trusted.
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While Woolsey's trip recalls the more benign shenanigans of
the Iran-Contra crowd,
consider some of the more recent press reports.
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Item One:
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Iran-Contra alumnus and close Perle associate,
Michael Ledeen has renewed ties with his old acquaintance,
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Manichur Ghorbanifar,
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an Iranian arms merchant
who became the key link between
the NSC's Oliver North, the operational head of Iran-Contra, and
the so-called "moderates" in the Islamic Republic. But to what end?
It appears that certain elements in the Pentagon leadership,
specifically Douglas Feith,
==========================
are trying to sabotage sensitive talks between
Teheran and the State Department
to promote cooperation over al-Qaeda and
other pressing issues affecting Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Pentagon clique thinks Ledeen's old friend Ghorbanifar can help,
according to Newsday, which reported Friday that:
two of Feith's senior aides –
without notice to the other agencies –
have held several meetings with the Iranian,
whom the CIA has long considered
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"an intelligence fabricator and nuisance."
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Item Two:
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U.S. aircraft and Special Operations Forces (SOF)
intercepted and destroyed a residential compound and
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two small convoys that were heading from Iraq into Syria
in mid-June, killing as many as 80 civilians.
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They then subdued and arrested
five Syrian guards across the border,
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taking them back to Iraq,
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where they were held and interrogated for five days,
despite strong objections from the State Department.
The Pentagon, for its part,
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claims that it
suspected senior Hussein officials of
"trying to make a run for it on a smuggling route."
But an expose last month by the New Yorker suggests that
the raid and arrests may have been part of a deliberate effort
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to inflame tensions with Damascus
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in an effort to put an end to the remarkably close level of
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cooperation between:
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Syria,
the CIA and
the State Department
in the campaign against al-Qaeda.
Item Three:
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The rightwing Washington Times reported on Friday that
certain "high-level circles within the administration"
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are hoping to persuade Chinese military officers to
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co-sponsor a coup to overthrow North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
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While it is not clear whether concrete action has been taken,
the paper noted that:
the Pentagon leadership disagrees strongly
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with the State Department's "efforts to use diplomacy"
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and the promise of a non-aggression pledge to persuade
Kim to abandon his nuclear-weapons program.
Just before North Korea agreed to resume talks last week,
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Bolton delivered a blistering attack on Kim
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in what was seen by analysts here as a "deliberate act of
provocation."
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Item Four:
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Anonymous "senior administration officials"
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informed a prominent conservative columnist
of a covert CIA operative (whose name he then published)
jeopardizing her career and
possibly exposing numerous ongoing covert actions and
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agents who worked with her.
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The agent in question is the wife of Joseph Wilson,
a retired career foreign service officer
who publicly exposed, as a fabrication,
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President George W. Bush's, now-infamous assertion
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that Iraq had tried to buy uranium yellowcake in Africa.
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While some analysts have said the disclosure of his wife's identity,
a felony under U.S. law, was an attempt to discredit him,
Wilson charged this week that:
the move "was clearly designed to intimidate others from coming
forward"
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with information that would
expose the administration's manipulation of intelligence.
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No one knows yet whether such intimidation will work,
but:
recently retired intelligence and
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foreign service officials and
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military officers, and
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a growing number of anonymous active-duty officials,
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have indeed been talking to the media about
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the shenanigans within the administration.
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Recent stories expose:
a consistent pattern of manipulation and exaggeration of intelligence
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in order to justify the war against Iraq and, more recently,
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efforts to hype evidence about the alleged threat posed by Syria.
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Newsday's disclosure that Feith's office has been used for
"secret contacts with Ghorbanifar"
suggests that the work of this small group of officials
goes well beyond assessing intelligence and
making policy recommendations.
According to one career military officer who
worked for eight months in the Near East/South Asia bureau (NESA)
in that office,
the political appointees assigned there and
their contacts at State,
the NSC, and
Cheney's office
tended to work as a "network."
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Feith's office often:
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deliberately cut out,
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ignored or
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circumvented
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normal channels of communication both within the Pentagon and
with other agencies.
"I personally witnessed several cases of "staff officers"
being told not to contact their counterparts at
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State or the (NSC) because
that particular decision would be processed through a different
channel," wrote retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowsky last week.
"What I saw was aberrant, pervasive and contrary to good order and
discipline."
In an interview with IPS, she insists that her views of
Feith's appointees and
operations
were widely shared by other professional staff.
Quoting one veteran career officer
"who was in a position to know what he was talking about,"
Kwiatkowsky says,
"What these people are doing now makes Iran- Contra look like amateur
hour."
==========================================================================
Jim Lobe writes for Inter Press Services.
© 2003 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved. Reproduction
by Syndication Service only.
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THE MAKING OF AN ANGRY OSAMA BIN LADEN
HERE IS THE CRITICAL LINK TO "WHY" BIN LADEN
HATES THE U.S. AND IS "NOW" SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING
THE WORLD'S OTHER MUSLIMS TO HELP HIM FIGHT THE
U.S., I.E. THIS IS THE "U.S. CONGRESSIONAL HEARING
THAT WAS HELD ON "FEBRUARY 12, 1998" IN WHICH IT
IS CLEAR "PROOF" THAT UNOCOL OIL WAS ASKING FOR
"ILLEGAL MILITARY ATTACKS" ON AFGHANISTAN IN ORDER
TO GET "THEIR" OIL PIPELINE BUILT THROUGH AFGHANISTAN.
PLEASE READ THE TESTIMONY AND WHO THE CONGRESS PEOPLE
WHO WERE ON THIS COMMITTEE BECAUSE....MANY ARE "STILL"
IN OFFICE AND FULLY SUPPORTED THIS ILLEGAL ACT.
AS WE KNOW, BIN LADEN "USED HIGH TECH AND USED COMPUTERS".
THIS DOCUMENT WAS CLEARLY AVAILABLE TO HIM AND HE "KNEW"
THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO BE KILLED, AND THAT AFGHANISTAN WAS
GOING TO BE ATTACKED.
BIN LADEN, DID WHAT ANY NATION'S LEADER WOULD DO, WHEN
THREATEN IN "BLACK AND WHITE" BY ANOTHER COUNTRY, I.E.
PREPARED TO DEFEND HIMSELF AND HIS COUNTRY "BEFORE IT WAS
ATTACKED"...IN FACT, THAT IS "EXACTLY WHAT GEORGE W. BUSH
USED AS HIS JUSTIFICATION TO ATTACK IRAQ", EVEN THOUGH....
BUSH HAD TO LIE THROUGH HIS TEETH THAT IRAQ WAS A THREAT TO THE U.S.
WHICH WE ALL KNOW FULLWELL "NOW"..WAS A FRAUD.
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Subject:
U.S. Interests in the Central Asian Republics-FEB. 12, 1998
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0f.htm
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THE "FACT" THAT BIN LADEN BEGAN ATTACKING U.S. MILITARY BASES IN
EUROPE IN 1998 CAME AS NO SURPRISE TO "ANYONE" IN THE U.S.
INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES.
THE "FACT" THAT THE U.S. STILL COULDN'T GET "CONTROL OF AFGHANISTAN"
FOR THE NEXT 2 1/2 YEARS INFURIATED THE "OIL CORPORATIONS", OF WHICH,
THE BUSH FAMILY AND ***** CHENEY HAD MADE THEIR PLANS OF POWER AND
GREED. AFTER THE MANY ATTACKS ON BIN LADEN, HE THEN TURNED HIS FOCUS
ON U.S. SOIL, THUS THE ATTACKS ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 AND
"ONE YEAR LATER, (12-28-02) BUSH USED THE U.S. TREASURY
($3.2 BILLION DOLLARS) TO GET THE OIL/GAS PIPELINE BUILT "FOR THEIR
OWN PERSONAL BENEFIT" AND ALSO USED, "OUR U.S. TROOPS" TO PROTECT
THIS PIPELINE".
http://paknews.com/top.php?id=1&date1-2002-12-28
THANKS TO THE AMERICAN MEDIA AND THE TOTAL LACK OF CONCERN OF
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE....THIS WAS ALL SWEPT UNDER THE RUG AND
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THAT BIN LADEN "IS
THE TERRORIST", WHEN IN FACT, THE TRUE TERRORIST HAS BEEN AND
CONTINUES TO BE....THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND IT'S BUDDIES IN
THE OIL/GAS CORPORATIONS, OF WHICH THE BUSH FAMILY IS WELL
ENTRENCHED, AS IS CHENEY.
SO....DRAW BACK YOUR UNJUSTIFIED RAGE AMERICANS...YOU LITERALLY
GOT WHAT YOU DESERVED, I.E. "INTERNATIONAL LAW" ALLOWS A COUNTRY
TO ATTACK ANOTHER WHEN IT IS BEING "THREATENED WITH A VERY REAL
ATTACK"..YOUR HATRED SHOULD BE PLACED ON THOSE SO-CALLED
AMERICAN'S WHO HAVING BEEN STABBING YOU IN THE BACK THROUGH
FRAUD AND TREASON, I.E. THE SITTING PRESIDENT AND (HIS FAMILY)
AS WELL AS CHENEY AND CONGRESS.
CAN YOU NOW SEE HOW IGNORANT AND STUPID YOU HAVE BEEN?
ARE YOU GOING TO PROVE IT AGAIN BY "KEEPING BUSH AND CHENEY"
AND THEIR FASCIST GOVERNMENT IN CONTROL OF "YOUR GOVERNMENT"?
SYLVIA
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31 Oct 2004 12:08:36 PM |
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12-28-02-INTERESTING HOW "SUDDENLY" THIS URL NO LONGER WORKS, BECAUSE
I TESTED IT *BEFORE* POSTING IT HERE.
http://paknews.com/top.php?id=1&date1-2002-12-28
SOOOOO, HERE IS MY *TEXT SAVED ARTICLE*, WHICH SHOWS YOU WHAT IT
SAID...YEP, THE FASCISTS BUSH CENSORS ARE HARD AT WORK TRYING TO
COVER UP THEIR ILLEGAL GREED AND POWER GRABS...JUST THE SORT THE
REPUBS LOVE. SYLVIA
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Editor-in-Chief: Asim Mughal
Last updated: (Updated 06:39PST)
PakNews.Com
Agreement On US 3.2 Billion Gas Pipeline Project Signed
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Updated on 2002-12-28 10:03:13
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan: Dec 28 (PNS) ‑ Pakistan, Afghanistan and
Turkmenistan on Friday signed here a framework agreement for a US $
3.2 billion gas pipeline project passing through the three countries.
The ceremony was held at the Presidential Palace with the three
leaders, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, President
Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan and Afghan President Hamid Karzai
signing the document.
The framework agreement defines legal mechanism for setting up a
consortium to build and operate the pipeline.
According to a study by Asian Development Bank (ADB), the 1460 km
pipeline would use gas reserves at Dauletabad fields in Turkmenistan,
which has world's fifth largest reserves, while passing through
Afghanistan into Pakistan.
The three countries had earlier signed a trilateral agreement to
develop a natural gas and oil pipeline from Turkmenistan through
Afghanistan into Pakistan in May this year, during the first
trilateral summit in Islamabad.
The three countries are laying great importance on the project as it
could provide much needed boost to their economies.
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3-05-01-
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TWO MONTHS AFTER BUSH JR. HAS TAKEN CONTROL OF THE WHITE
HOUSE, POPPA BUSH IS OFF TO SAUDI ARABIA TO MAKE "MORE DEALS" NOW
THAT JR. IS IN A POSITION TO DO WHAT EVER HE WANTS TO RE:
"FOREIGN POLICY".
THIS ARTICLE SPELLS OUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF "GOVERNMENTS AND U.S.
PRESIDENTS" INCLUDING, "SAUDI ARABIA" BY THE "CARLYLE CORP", OF
WHICH BOTH PRESIDENTS, GEORGE W. AND HIS FATHER, BELONG.
IS THIS *REALLY* THE KIND OF GOVERNMENT YOU WANT?
WELL YOU'VE GOT IT AND MUCH MUCH MORE.
IF YOU DON'T STOP BUSH...YOU ARE GOING TO BE HIS SLAVE
UNDER THIS FASCIST REGIME OF UNCONTROLLED, MONEY AND POWER,
"PROTECTED BY "YOUR KIDS, WHO ARE IN THE U.S. MILITARY" AND
DYING BECAUSE OF "THEIR GREED".
SYLVIA
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NO CONFUSION HERE-INCLUDING WHY BRITS TONY BLAIR IS THE ONLY GOVT
OFFICIAL SUPPORTING BUSH, THE PREVIOUS BRIT P.M., (JOHN MAJOR) GOT
BLAIR
HIS JOB I.E. WAR WAS NEEDED SO BLAIR'S "PAY BACK" WAS TO BACK BUSH'S
WAR. SCS
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(Editors Note : The first article now just over 7 months old examines
efforts by former President Bush and others to secure Saudi favor for
select business interests.
Part two which follows below deals with the recent Bush appointment of
Dallas attorney Robert Jordan to serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia
and
his deep connections to those same select interests.)
The New York Times | March 5, 2001, Monday
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Elder Bush in Big G.O.P. Cast Toiling for Top Equity Firm
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By LESLIE WAYNE
During the presidential campaign last year, former President George
Bush
took time off from his son's race to call on Crown Prince Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia at a luxurious desert compound outside Riyadh to talk
about
American-Saudi business affairs.
Mr. Bush went as an ambassador of sorts, but not for his government.
In the same way, Mr. Bush's secretary of state, James A. Baker III,
recently met with a group of wealthy people at the elegant
Lanesborough
Hotel in London to explain the Florida vote count.
Traveling with the fanfare of dignitaries, Mr. Bush and Mr. Baker were
using their extensive government contacts to further their business
interests as representatives of
the Carlyle Group, a $12 billion private equity firm based in
Washington
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that has parlayed a roster of former top-level government officials,
largely from the Bush and Reagan
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administrations, into a moneymaking machine.
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In a new spin on Washington's revolving door between business and
government, where lobbying by former officials is restricted but
soliciting investments is not, Carlyle has upped the ante and taken
the
practice "global".
Mr. Bush and Mr. Baker were accompanied on their trips by
former Prime Minister John Major of Britain,
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another of Carlyle's political stars.
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With door-openers of this caliber, along with shrewd investment
skills,
Carlyle has gone from an unknown in the world of private equity to one
of its biggest players.
Private equity, which involves buying up companies in private deals
and reselling them, is a high-end business open only to the very rich.
Over the last decade, the Carlyle empire has grown to
span three continents and
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include investments in most corners of the world.
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It owns so many companies that it is now in effect,
one of the nation's biggest defense contractors and
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a force in global telecommunications.
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Its blue-chip investors include:
major banks and
insurance companies,
billion-dollar pension funds and
wealthy investors from Abu Dhabi to Singapore.
In getting business for Carlyle, Mr. Bush has been impressive. His
meeting with the crown prince was followed by a yacht cruise and
private
dinners with Saudi officials, including King Fahd, all on behalf of
Carlyle, which has extensive interests in the Middle East.
And Mr. Bush led Carlyle's successful entry into South Korea, the
fastest-growing economy in Asia.
After his meetings with the prime minister and other government and
business leaders, Carlyle won a tough competition for control of
KorAm, one of Korea's few healthy banks.
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The steady flow of politicians to lucrative private-sector jobs based
on
their government contacts is a familiar Washington tale.
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But in this case, it is being played out for more dollars,
on a global stage, and in the world of private finance,
where the minimal government rules prohibiting lobbying by
former officials for a given period are *not* a factor.
These rules say nothing about potential conflicts when former
government
officials use their connections and insights for financial gain, and
they may attract more notice now that George W. Bush is president.
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Many of those involved with Carlyle, which invests largely in
companies
that do business with the government or are affected by government
regulations, have ties to the Oval Office.
For instance:
Frank C. Carlucci,
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a Reagan secretary of defense
who as much as anyone is responsible for Carlyle's success, said
he met in February with his old college classmate,
Donald H. Rumsfeld,
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the secretary of defense, and
Vice President ***** Cheney,
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himself a defense secretary
under former President Bush,
to talk about military matters --
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at a time when
Carlyle has several billion-dollar defense projects under
consideration.
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Carlyle officials contend that the firm's activities do not present
any
potential conflicts since:
Mr. Bush,
Mr. Baker and
other former Republican officials now at Carlyle --
including Mr. Carlucci, who is Carlyle's chairman, and
Richard G. Darman,
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Mr. Bush's former budget director --
do not lobby the federal government.
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Carlyle executives point out that many corporations have former
government officials as board members.
''Mr. Bush gives us no advice on what do with with the federal
government,''
said David Rubenstein,
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the firm's founder and a former aide in the Carter White House.
''We've gone over backwards to make sure that we do no lobbying.''
Others, however, see little difference between potential conflicts
involving lobbying and those involving investments.
''Carlyle is as deeply wired into the current administration
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as they can possibly be,'' said
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Charles Lewis,
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executive director of
the Center for Public Integrity,
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a nonprofit public interest group based in Washington.
''George Bush is getting money from private interests
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that have business before the government,
while his son is president.
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And, in a really peculiar way,
George W. Bush could, some day,
benefit financially from his own administration's decisions,
through his father's investments.
The average American doesn't know that and, to me, that's a
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jaw-dropper.''
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It is difficult to determine exactly how much money the senior Mr.
Bush
and Mr. Baker have made. Mr. Baker is a Carlyle partner, and Mr. Bush
has the title, senior adviser, to its Asian activities.
With a current market value of about $3.5 billion on
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Carlyle's equity and with the firm owned by 18 partners and
one outside investor, Mr. Baker's Carlyle stake would be
worth about $180 million if each partner held an equal stake.
It is not known whether he has more or less than the other partners.
Unlike Mr. Baker, Mr. Bush has no ownership stake in Carlyle;
he is an "adviser and an investor" and
is compensated by obtaining stakes in Carlyle investments.
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Carlyle executives cited, for example, Mr. Bush's being allowed
to put money he earns giving speeches for Carlyle into its
investment funds.
Mr. Bush generally receives $80,000 to $100,000 for a speech.
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He sits on no corporate boards other than Carlyle's.
Carlyle also gave the Bush family a hand in 1990
by putting George W. Bush,
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who was then struggling to find a career,
on the board of a Carlyle subsidiary,
Caterair, an airline-catering company.
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From Carlyle's point of view, the involvement of
Mr. Baker and the
former president is invaluable.
''It punches up the brand awareness for us globally,''
====================================================
said Daniel A. D'Aniello,
a Carlyle managing director.
''We are greatly assisted by Baker and Bush.
It shows that we are associated with people of the
==================================================
"highest ethical standards".''
===========================
With $12 billion from investors,
===============================
Carlyle claims to be the nation's largest private equity fund and
makes money by investing in undervalued companies and
reselling at a profit. These numbers put Carlyle in the
same league as better-known private equity firms like
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company and Forstmann-Little & Company.
Two hundred forty Carlyle employees are stationed throughout the world
either raising money or finding ways to spend it.
Carlyle has ownership stakes in 164 companies,
which last year employed more than 70,000 people and
generated $16 billion in revenues.
About 450 institutions --
mainly large pension funds and banks -- are Carlyle investors.
===============================================================
The California state pension fund invested $305 million with Carlyle,
====================================================================
and the Texas teachers pension fund --
===================================
whose board was appointed when George W. Bush was governor --
===========================================================
gave Carlyle $100 million to invest in November.
===============================================
Carlyle also works as a "financial adviser to the Saudi government."
==================================================================
''Let's say Carlyle is going "fund-raising" in the Middle East and
==============================================================
they bring Bush along,'' said
=====================
David Snow,
editor of Private Equity Central,
a trade publication.
''He led the U.S. Army into that region.
=======================================
"That will catch the attention of very wealthy investors in
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
=======================
The fact that Bush is involved doesn't mean that
Carlyle will make great investment decisions. But it will get
them access to certain deals and certain countries that
they might otherwise not have.''
One former Carlyle employee said,
''The firm understands that having Bush and Major around
is like having movie stars around.''
Yet Carlyle's success is not just because of its high-powered
connections. Carlyle has done well for its investors, returning an
average of 34 percent a year over the last decade, in line with other
private equity funds.
It has done this by buying what it knows best --
=============================================
companies that are regulated by the government.
==============================================
Nearly two-thirds of its investments are in
defense and telecommunications companies,
which are affected by shifts in government spending and policy.
================================================================
Carlyle has become the nation's 11th largest defense contractor,
=============================================================
owning companies that make:
tanks,
aircraft wings and
a broad array of other military equipment.
It also owns:
=============
health care companies,
=====================
real estate,
Internet companies,
===================
a bottling company and even
Le Figaro, the French newspaper.
===============================
''Carlyle is one of the most successful "fund-raising" groups,''
said
Mario L. Giannini,
president of Hamilton Lane,
a Philadelphia consultant
to institutional investors.
''They have tremendous access and they have done very well
with their money.''
And its "access extends" well beyond American shores.
=====================================================
In Europe,
==========
Carlyle has assembled an advisory board that besides Mr. Major
includes: Karl
Otto Phl,
=========
former president of German's Bundesbank, and
the past or present chairmen of:
B.M.W.,
Hoffman-LaRoche,
Nestl ,
LVMH-Mot Hennessy,
Louis Vuitton and
Aerospatiale, the French Airbus partner.
========================================
Carlyle's Asia advisory board,
=============================
which helps raise money and finds and reviews deals, includes:
former President, Fidel V. Ramos
of the Philippines,
===================
the former prime minister of Thailand and
=====================================
the executive director of
the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
=================================
The former South Korean prime minister
======================================
Park Tae Joon was also an adviser to Carlyle.
This star power is a source of great pride for Carlyle and part of an
acknowledged "long-term strategy" to associate the firm with
brand-name politicians and
====================
business executives
===================
in order to attract:
more of the same
along with their money,
insights and
connections.
That said, Carlyle partners bristle at any suggestion that
the firm's success is based only on high-powered schmoozing.
''If our track record was not good, people would not invest with us,''
said Mr. Rubenstein, the founding partner.
''No one would gives us money just because Mr. Bush is one of
"our advisers.''
On that point, others agree.
''People took potshots at Carlyle early on
and tried to denigrate their investment credentials
because they had all "these government officials over there,''
said Bernard Aronson, managing partner at ACON Investments,
a private equity firm in Washington.
''But that's sort of a myth.
============================
The all-hat-and-no-cattle has disappeared because:
they performed consistently,
delivered excellent returns and
have become global players.''
===========================
One of the people who put Carlyle on the map --
developing its riches and its image -- is
Mr. Carlucci, who joined the firm in 1989 when it
had engaged in a string of ill-fated ventures.
He is credited with steering Carlyle into successful defense industry
acquisitions -- just when other investors were shunning them --
and with using his seat on more than a dozen corporate boards to
bring Carlyle deals and investors.
In an office adorned with photographs of Mr. Carlucci and the
politically mighty --
he sits beneath an Oval Office picture of himself and Mr. Reagan --
================================================================
Mr. Carlucci makes it clear that his
extensive government and global ties are as fresh as ever.
=========================================================
''I know Rumsfeld extremely well,''
=================================
Mr. Carlucci said in an interview.
''We've been close friends throughout the years.
We were college classmates.''
Pointing to a picture of the Chinese president, he said,
==============================================
''There's a photo of me and Jiang Zemin.
And there's me and the president of Taiwan.''
===========================================
Right now, Carlyle is hoping that financing is provided for:
the $13.7 billion Crusader program.
====================================
The Crusader is a heavy-duty tank made by a Carlyle portfolio company
and other contractors.
And Carlyle just lodged a complaint with the government after another
of its portfolio companies lost a $4 billion contract to build
a lightweight combat vehicle.
While Mr. Carlucci is open about his discussions with Mr. Rumsfeld on
Pentagon policies, he said he "never lobbies".
=============================================
''I've made it clear that I don't lobby the defense industry,''
Mr. Carlucci said.
''I will give our Carlyle bankers "advice" on what they
"might do" and
"who they should talk to."
"But I do not pick up the phone and say
"you should fund X, Y or Z.''
If Washington's revolving door brought Republicans to Carlyle
=============================================================
during the Clinton presidency,
now the firm is preparing for an onslaught of Democrats.
========================================================
The day these interviews took place at Carlyle's Washington
office,
Gene Sperling,
one of the Clinton administration's top economic advisers,
was in for a job interview.
--------------------
The New ambassador to Saudi Arabia is
====================================
another Bush/Carlyle Group crony.
================================
end
******************************************************************
October 9, 2001, Tuesday
---------------
By Jonathan Ashley, Eyes On American
Dallas attorney,
===============
Robert Jordan was confirmed Wednesday by
the United States Senate to
serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
====================================
Jordan has *no* diplomatic experience.
===================================
However, his connections leave no doubt as to
=============================================
why he was named to the post.
============================
He defended George W. Bush
==========================
in a probe of "insider trading" allegations in 1990.
==================================================
The allegations involved the sale by Bush of 60% of
his Harken Energy Corp. stocks
=============================
two months before a 25% drop in the stock's price.
=================================================
According to a 7 Sep 2000 article by the Associated Press,
"At the time of the investigation, Bush's father was
president of the United States
and
the SEC was run by one of "his biggest political supporters",
===========================================================
Richard Breeden.
The SEC's then-general counsel,
=============================
James R. Doty,
==============
was another staunch presidential supporter
who, as a private attorney was George W. Bush's lawyer
=======================================================
when he purchased his share of the Texas Rangers baseball team."
This is not Jordan's only connection to the Bush family.
Jordan is a corporate lawyer in the Dallas office of
Houston-based Baker Botts.
==========================
Baker Botts has an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
=================================================
The client list at Baker Botts includes
"more than half of the Fortune 100 companies".
=============================================
The client list also includes The Carlyle Group.
===============================================
On the board of directors for Carlyle is:
=========================================
former President George Herbert Walker Bush.
===========================================
James A. Baker III is the current "Baker" in Baker Botts.
=======================================================
Baker was Secretary of State under the first President Bush.
===========================================================
He is currently senior counsel to The Carlyle Group.
Baker was a classmate of Donald H. Rumsfeld at "Yale University"
MY NOTE: (SEE THE SECRET YALE SOCIETY "SKULL AND BONES".
HERE WE CAN SEE THAT "RUMSFELD" IS ALSO FROM YALE.
===============================================================
Rumsfeld, the current Secretary of Defense,
was the roommate of Frank C. Carlucci at Yale.
(MY NOTE: AGAIN..HERE WE SEE THAT CARLUCCI IS FROM "YALE")
Carlucci,
==========
who was head of the National Security Counsel
============================================
under President Ronald Reagan,
is currently chairman of The Carlyle Group.
The "current" President Bush
was a director of Caterair
during the years 1990-1994.
===========================
Caterair is owned by The Carlyle Group.
=======================================
The board of directors of The Carlyle Group also includes:
========================================================
(1)former Phillipines President,
Fidel V. Ramos;
(2)former director of the U.S. Office of Management & Budget,
Richard Darman;
(3)former Assistant to the President (Bush I),
Robert Grady;
(4)former Prime Minister of South Korea,
Park Tae Joon;
(5)former SEC chairman,
Arthur Levitt;
(6)former Prime Minister of Great Britain,
John Major;
(7)former general director of the World Health Organization,
Michael Orloff;
(8)retired U.S. Army General,
J. H. Binford Peay;
(9)former president of Deutsche Bundesbank,
Karl Otto Pohl; and
(10)former chairman of the Joint Chief's of Staff,
John Shalikashvili.
Two-thirds of Carlyle's holdings are in defense and telecommunications
companies.
At least $2 million of Carlyle funding has
==========================================
come from the bin Laden family of Saudi Arabia.
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4-28-03***********THE BECHTEL CORPORATION
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DEPT. OF CONNECTIONS: THE CONTRACTORS
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THE NEW YORKER
by Jane Mayer
Issue of 2003-05-05
Posted 2003-04-28
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Back when Americans were still debating whether there was just cause
for a preëmptive strike against Iraq, few arguments were scrutinized
more closely than the Bush Administration's contention that there were
covert links between Al Qaeda and Iraq.
At the C.I.A., analysts pored over aerial satellite photographs.
At the Treasury Department, experts sifted through financial records.
At the National Security Agency, Arab-speaking linguists eavesdropped
on phone conversations.
But, even after Secretary of State Colin Powell put his credibility on
the line, in a damning, dot-connecting speech before the United
Nations last February, questions persisted about the solidity of the
alleged links between Saddam and Osama.
Now there is a new and demonstrable connection,
==============================================
but it is not the kind that the Bush Administration had in mind.
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In fact, it is more likely to fuel the speculations of conspiracy
theorists than it is to put their fears to rest.
It turns out that a money trail runs—albeit rather circuitously—
from the lucrative business of rebuilding Iraq to
================================================
the fortune behind Osama bin Laden.
==================================
Bin Laden's estranged family,
============================
a sprawling,
extraordinarily wealthy Saudi Arabian dynasty,
is a substantial investor in a private equity firm
founded by the Bechtel Group of San Francisco.
===============================================
Bechtel is also the "global construction and engineering company"
================================================================
to which the U.S. government recently awarded the first
=======================================================
major multimillion-dollar contract to reconstruct war-ravaged Iraq.
==================================================================
In a "closed competitive bidding process",
=========================================
the United States Agency
=========================
for International Development
chose Bechtel to:
=================
rebuild the major elements of Iraq's infrastructure,
including its
roads,
railroads,
airports,
hospitals, and
schools, and its
water and
electrical systems.
In the first phase of the contract,
===================================
the U.S. government will pay Bechtel
nearly thirty-five million dollars,
but experts say that the cost is likely to
reach six hundred and eighty million during the next year and a half.
=====================================================================
When the contract was awarded, two weeks ago,
the Administration *did not mention* that
the bin Laden family has an ongoing relationship with Bechtel.
==============================================================
The bin Ladens have a ten-million-dollar stake in the
====================================================
Fremont Group,
==============
a San Francisco-based company
formerly called Bechtel Investments, which was,
until 1986 a subsidiary of Bechtel.
The Fremont Group's Web site,
=============================
which makes no mention of the bin Ladens,
========================================
notes that "though now independent,
Fremont enjoys a close relationship with Bechtel."
A spokeswoman for the company *confirmed* that
Fremont's "majority ownership is the Bechtel family."
===================================================
And a *list of the corporate board of directors* shows
substantial overlap.
Five of Fremont's eight directors are also directors of Bechtel.
================================================================
One Fremont director,
(1) Riley Bechtel,
==============
is the chairman and chief executive officer of
the Bechtel Group, and
is a member of the Bush Administration:
========================================
he was *appointed this year*
to serve on the President's Export Council.
==========================================
In addition,
(2)George Shultz,
==============
the Secretary of State
in the Reagan Administration,
serves as a director
=====================
both of Fremont and of the Bechtel Group,
========================================
where he once was president and
==========================
still is listed as senior counsellor.
======================================
(3)Rick Kopf,
==============
the general counsel of the Fremont Group,
========================================
which manages some $11 billion dollars in assets,
=================================================
*confirms* that the bin Laden family invested about $10 million
dollars
========================================================================
in one of Fremont's private funds before September 11, 2001.
============================================================
He noted that the bin Laden family has not enlarged its stake since
then,
but *he declined to provide additional details* about
its association with the firm.
He also *chose not to discuss* the origin or the nature of
the relationship between the bin Laden and Bechtel families,
============================================================
both of which made fortunes in huge construction projects in
the Arab world.
The Fremont Group evidently does not go in for connecting the dots.
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As Kopf said, "Ownership is private and is not disclosed."
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War Critics Zero In on Pentagon Office
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By Jim Lobe
Inter Press Service News Agency
Tuesday 05 August 2003
=======================
WASHINGTON - On most days, the Pentagon's
'Early Bird', a daily
compilation of news articles on defence-related
issues mostly from the
U.S. and British press, does not shy from
reprinting hard-hitting
stories and columns critical of the Defence
Department's top
leadership.
But few could help notice last week that the
'Bird' omitted an
opinion piece distributed by the Knight-Ridder
news agency by a:
senior Pentagon Middle East specialist,
======================================
Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski,
=====================================
who worked in the office of Under Secretary of
Defence for Policy
=================================================================
Douglas Feith until her retirement in April.
===========================================
"What I saw was aberrant, pervasive and contrary
to good order and
=================================================================
discipline," Kwiatkowski wrote.
========
"If one is seeking the answers to:
why peculiar bits of 'intelligence' found
sanctity in a presidential
speech, or why the post-Saddam (Hussein)
occupation (in Iraq) has been
distinguished
by confusion and false steps,
============================
one need look no further than
=============================
the process inside the Office of the Secretary of
Defence" (OSD).
==================================================================
Kwiatkowski went on to charge that the
operations she witnessed
during her tenure in Feith's office, and
particularly those of an ad hoc group known as
the "Office of Special
Plans"
=========================================================================
(OSP),
constituted "a subversion of constitutional
limits on executive power
and
=========================================================================
a co-optation through deceit of a large segment
of the Congress".
===============================================================
Kwiatkowski's charges,
which tend to confirm reports and impressions
offered to the press
by retired officers from other intelligence
agencies and
their still-active but anonymous former
colleagues,
are likely to make her a prime witness when
Congress reconvenes in September for hearings on
the manipulation of intelligence to justify war
against Iraq.
=============================================================
According to Kwiatkowski,
the same operation that allegedly "cooked the
intelligence"
also was responsible for the administration's
failure to anticipate
the problems that now dog the U.S. occupation in
Iraq, or,
in her more colourful words, that have placed
150,000 U.S. troops in
"the world's nastiest rat's nest,
without a nation-building plan,
without significant international support and
without an exit plan".
Kwiatkowski's comments echo the worst fears of
some lawmakers, who
have begun looking into the OSP's role in the
administration's
mistaken assumptions in Iraq.
Some are even comparing it to the off-the-books
operation run
==============================================================
from the National Security Council (NSC) during
Reagan administration
that later resulted in the "Iran-Contra" scandal.
"That office was charged with collecting,
vetting, disseminating
intelligence completely outside the normal
intelligence apparatus,"
====================================================
Rep. David Obey, a senior Democrat in the House
of Representatives,
said last month.
"In fact, it appears that the information
collected by this office
was
in some instances not even shared with the
established intelligence
agencies and in numerous instances was passed on
to the National
Security Council and the president
without having been vetted with anyone other than
(the secretary of
defence)".
===========================================================================
Actually, little is known about OSP,
====================================
which was originally created by Pentagon chief,
Donald Rumsfeld
===============================================================
and his top deputy, Paul Wolfowitz,
==================================
to investigate possible links between Hussein and
Osama bin Laden's
al-Qaeda terrorist group.
While only a dozen people officially worked in
the office at its
largest,
=========================================================================
scores of "consultants" were brought in on
contract,
===================================================
many of them closely identified with the
neo-conservative and
============================================================
pro-Likud views held by the Pentagon leadership.
===============================================
There have been published reports that
a similar informal group co-ordinated closely
with the OSP from
===============================================================
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office,
===========================================
but these have not been confirmed.
================================
Headed by a gung-ho former Navy officer, William
Luti,
======================================================
and a scholarly national-security analyst, Abram
Shulsky,
=========================================================
OSP was given complete access to reams of raw
intelligence
produced by the U.S. intelligence community and
became the preferred stop, when in town,
for defectors handled by the Iraqi National
Congress (INC),
===========================================================
led by Ahmed Chalabi.
====================
It also maintained close relations with the
Defence Policy Board
(DPB),
which was then chaired by:
neo-conservative Richard Perle
===============================
of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI),
==========================================
Feith's mentor in the Reagan administration.
===========================================
Perle and Feith, whose "published views on
Israeli policy"
echo the right-wing Likud party,
=================================
co-authored a 1996 memo for then-
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
that argued that Hussein's ouster in Iraq
=========================================
would enable Israel
===================
to transform the balance of power in the Middle
East in "its favour".
===================================================================
The DPB included some of Perle's closest
associates, including
===================================================
former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director
James Woolsey and
==============================================================
former Republican Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich,
=====================================================
who played prominent roles in pushing the public
case
that Iraq represented an imminent threat to the
United States and
============================================================
that it was closely tied to al-Qaeda and other
terrorist networks.
=================================================================
In her article, Kwiatkowski wrote that OSP's work
was marked by
three major characteristics:
===========================
First:
"career Pentagon analysts" assigned to the
Secretary's office
========================
were generally excluded from "key areas of
interest"
====================================================
to:
Feith,
Wolfowitz, and
Rumsfeld,
notably:
Israel,
Iraq, and
Saudi Arabia.
"In terms of Israel and Iraq,
all primary staff work was "conducted by
political appointees",
in the case of Israel:
=====================
a desk officer appointee from the "Washington
Institute for Near
Policy",
"a think tank" closely tied to the main
pro-Israel lobby in
Washington,
======================================================================
the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC).
=====================================================
Second, the same group of appointees tended to
work with likeminded
political appointees in "other agencies"
especially:
the State Department,
the NSC, and
Cheney's office,
rather than with those agencies' career analysts
or the CIA.
===========================================================
"I personally witnessed several cases of staff
officers
being told not to contact their counterparts at
================================================
State or the National Security Council
=====================================
because that particular decision
would be processed through a different channel,"
==============================================
Kwiatkowski wrote.
The "CIA's exclusion" from this network could
help explain why:
==============================================================
Cheney and
=====
his National Security Advisor, I. Lewis Libby,
==============================================
a long-time associate of Wolfowitz,
frequently visited the agency,
=============================
in what analysts widely regarded as pressure to
conform to OSP
assessments.
=========================================================================
"This exclusion of professional and independent
opinions",
both within the Pentagon and across government
agencies --
according to Kwiatkowski --
resulted in "Groupthink",
========================
a technical term defined as
"reasoning or decision-making by a group,
often characterised by uncritical acceptance of
conformity
=========================================================
to "prevailing points of view".
=============================
In this case,
the "prevailing points of view" were
presumably shaped by neo-conservatives like:
==========================================
Feith,
Wolfowitz and
Perle, and
the "intelligence" provided by the INC. (Chabali)
=======================================
Kwiatkowski's broadside coincides with the
appearance in neo-conservative media outlets,
notably the 'Wall Street Journal', of defences
of:
=================================
Feith, who is widely seen here as the Pentagon's
most likely fall guy if it is forced to shoulder
blame
for bad intelligence and planning.
The government of British Prime Minister Tony
Blair
has pressed Bush to fire Feith for several
months,
================================================
according to diplomatic sources.
In a lengthy defence published Tuesday,
the associate editor of the Journal's editorial
page
===================================================
described Feith's policy workshop as
"the world's most effective think tank".
=======================================
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