Posted on 12/15/2001 1:16:52 PM PST by Starmaker
During the election season last year, I warned my listeners and readers that should G. W. Bush get elected, he would never allow Congress or the American people learn the truth about Bill Clinton's copious acts of criminality. In other words, Bush would continue where Janet Reno left off: there would be more stonewalling and cover-ups. This prediction brought the ire and angst against me by Bush-backers. We now know I was right, although I do not expect the Bush people to be willing to admit it.
News reports yesterday said, "President Bush invoked executive privilege for the first time Thursday to keep Congress from seeing documents of prosecutor 's decision-making [regarding] the Clinton-era fund-raising probe." Bush said, "Congressional access to these documents would be contrary to the national interest." Translated: "Congressional access to these documents would be contrary to my interest."
Bush's decision to cover-up the truth about Clinton's criminality makes him culpable to that criminality. It also means that there is no closure to the blight of eight years of corruption and degradation in the White House. Add Bush's cover-up to the long list of injustices left unaccounted for such as Ruby Ridge, Waco and now Chinagate. The question must be asked: what is Bush trying to hide?
Could it be that if Congress uncovers foreign influence within the Clinton administration, it would also uncover foreign influence within the Bush administration? The Boston Herald recently reported that billion-dollar arms and oil deals with the Saudi monarchy "have served or currently serve at the highest levels of U.S. government."
The Herald goes on to say, "Nowhere is the revolving U.S.-Saudi money wheel more evident than within President Bush's own coterie of foreign policy advisers, starting with the president's father, George H.W. Bush."
The report further states, "At the same time that the elder Bush counsels his son on the ongoing war on terrorism, the former president remains a senior adviser to the Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle Group. That influential investment bank has deep connections to the Saudi royal family as well as financial interests in U.S. defense firms hired by the kingdom to equip and train the Saudi army."
This more-than-casual connection between Bush and the Saudi monarchy is causing U.S. policy makers to turn a blind eye to things that would otherwise "cause our blood to boil," because no one wants to "stop the gravy train." (Remember that the vast majority of the September 11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.)
People mentioned in the Herald report as participating in ongoing covert, international influence peddling include "former U.S. officials, former presidents, aides to the current president .people who are the pillars of American society and officialdom."
That Bush is hiding much seems obvious. What exactly is he hiding? Maybe we do not want to know - and it looks like we never will.
Well!!!! Just give them some more time!!!!! There's a masterful, crafty, supersmart PLAN invoved here. Just give them some more time.
Then we'll know EVERYTHING we paid our government to find out about Mena, an China Treason an stuff!
made me sick to even type that.
These are not the only documents from which Bush shielded the deliberations of Justice Department prosecutors (the actual reason the documents were withheld).
But, of course, ole Chuckie doesn't tell you that. He would have you believe Bush is specifically covering up for Clinton.
Chuck is being disingenuous, something that's becoming a habit for him.
The report further states, "At the same time that the elder Bush counsels his son on the ongoing war on terrorism, the former president remains a senior adviser to the Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle Group. That influential investment bank has deep connections to the Saudi royal family as well as financial interests in U.S. defense firms hired by the kingdom to equip and train the Saudi army."
What the Saudi connection has to do with executive privilege is not, of course, explained by Chuckie. He just throws it out there, then inserts his own editorial opinion:
(Remember that the vast majority of the September 11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.)
That's it! Bush is in cohoots with the terrorists who killed 3,000 people!!
Why anyone on this website believes this goofy conspiracy theorist is beyond me.
Yup, Gore would have revealed it all........... LOL
"The Herald goes on to say, "Nowhere is the revolving U.S.-Saudi money wheel more evident than within President Bush's own coterie of foreign policy advisers, starting with the president's father, George H.W. Bush."
I don't believe that was stated or inferred. The real problem goes back to the entire controlled "nomination" <------- don't know a funnier word to use there, of jr.
No one else in the GOP would have won. Simple as that. I thank God for Dubya everyday!
You're also swallowing all the swill from the rdavis84's and Inspector Harry Callahans that Bush is trying to cover something up.
Bush gave an explanation you obviously don't accept.
You'd rather believe the conspiracists.
FROM------ http://www.bostonherald.com/news/americas_new_war/saud12112001.htm
Insiders trading
A significant portion of the millions of dollars U.S. companies and their politically influential executives have earned in deals with the Saudis has been through military contracts.
The Carlyle Group had a major stake in the large defense contractor B.D.M., which has multimillion-dollar contracts through its subsidiaries to train and manage the Saudi National Guard and the Saudi air force, U.S. Department of Defense records show. In 1998, Carlyle sold its controlling interest in B.D.M. to defense giant TRW International.
Meanwhile, the boards of directors of the Carlyle Group, B.D.M. and TRW are all stocked with high-level Republican policy makers.
Frank C. Carlucci, a former secretary of defense under President Reagan, was chairman of B.D.M. for most of the 1990s. Carlucci, who also served as Reagan's national security adviser and a deputy director of the CIA, now heads the Carlyle Group.
Along with former President Bush, other officials from past Republican administrations now at the Carlyle Group include: former Secretary of State James A. Baker III; ex-budget chief Richard Darman; and former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt.
President Bush is himself linked to the Carlyle group: He was a director of one of its subsidiaries, an airline food services company called Caterair, until 1994. Six years later, when Bush was governor of Texas, the board of directors of the Texas teachers' pension fund - some of whom were his appointees - voted to invest $100 million with the Carlyle Group.
The president of B.D.M. is Philip A. Odeen, a former high-level Pentagon official in the Nixon administration. During the Clinton administration, Odeen chaired the Pentagon task force that planned the restructuring of the U.S. military for the 21st century. Currently, he is the vice-chair of the Defense Science Board, which advises the Pentagon on emerging threats.
TRW, the new owner of B.D.M., has its own noteworthy board members, including former CIA director Robert M. Gates and Michael H. Armacost, who served as undersecretary of state under President Reagan and as ambassador to Japan for former President Bush.
Big Saudi money also makes its way back to Texas and the Bush family. The family of Saudi Arabia's longtime U.S. ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, gave $1 million to the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas.
Have to agree here. Seems that's the same as a country that harbors terrorists being the in league with the terrorists.
One doesn't have to be a "Gore-on" to wonder what is going on here.
Blind loyalty to a political party or politician does not serve the country's best interest.
"In questions of power...let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
--Thomas Jefferson: Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
"Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence."
--Thomas Jefferson: Draft, Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
Actually, a lot of us don't.
To some people, the world is one huge, never-ending conspiracy. They give themselves affirmation in believing that; (a) Everyone is evil and (b) Only they are smart enough to know the real truth. Everyone else is naive, a dupe or just plain dumb. Not them. No siree Bob!
They just know Bush is in cahoots with the evil men that secretly run the world, while us dolts and dupes live our lives in blissful ignorance about the reality they 'know' exists. Guys like Chuck Baldwin and many others make a very nice living off these people. They get columns, write books and have radio shows that feed the delusion. It pays well and it's so easy.
Do wealthy, powerful people have a lot of influence in the world? Of course. Always have - always will. Big deal. It's this 'web of intrigue' that fascinates the True Believers. The concept that a handful of people all conspire together to 'run the world'. Think James Bond and 'Doctor No'.
It's a little sad but these folks will always be around and the Chuck Baldwins of the world will always be there to feed off the latent paranoia and fear that drives this kind of thinking. President Bush is just the latest powerful man to get the 'part of the plot' treatment. The Chuck Baldwins feast off it. Since the Bush family has some Mid-East ties, the current situation is red meat for the conspiracy fans. The Bush-haters get a free shot, too.
Fortunately, not all FReepers are part of the conspiracy web-ring and can see people and events as they are, not as we might fantasize them. Meanwhile, Chuck Baldwin and the others that feed the conspiracy theory folks just keeps laughing, all the way to the bank.
"Big Saudi money also makes its way back to Texas and the Bush family. The family of Saudi Arabia's longtime U.S. ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, gave $1 million to the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas."
A 14" schlong, Farley!
Larry Flynt strikes again.
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