Reply #26: lukery, I've been reading Sibel, and I have a story and a question.

[donkeyotay]

In "Rise of the Vulcans" by James Mann, I came across this odd story about Richard Armitage and Ross Perot. Mann says that Perot hated Armitage to the extent that people wondered why.

Story goes that police in Virginia arrested a Vietnamese woman who was running a gambling operation that was bringing in over $50K/day. A detective who was looking into Asian organized crime showed Perot a photo of Armitage with the woman. He also showed him a letter from Armitage, written on Pentagon letterhead, asking the judge sentencing her for leniency. Then he says, "Perot went on to develop a series of dark conspiracy theories involving Armitage, corruption, organized crime, drug trafficking and Vietnam. For these other speculations, he had neither pictures nor other evidence." (174)

After reading Sibel, I thought Perot's theories sounded familiar. I wonder what Perot had found, because he was investigating claims that POWs were still alive in Vietnam, and had apparently put some money into it. Odd story.

The question I have is if you know whether Gen. Ralston is related to Susan B. Ralston, the former aid to Abramoff who went to work for Bush and Rove?

Thanks for these threads.