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In reply to the discussion: Maybe I miss it, but seems to me that one of the big elephants in the room is Booz-Allen. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)45. What a small, small world.
And very, very bad.
Jaws should drop when they find out that bin Laden and Poppy and W were in business on 9-11, but for some cough brainwashed reason too many people just don't seem to give a figgin' flapoodle.
Carlyle's way
Making a mint inside "the iron triangle" of defense, government, and industry.
by Dan Briody, Red Herring, 8 January 2002
EXCERPT...
Perhaps even more disconcerting than Carlyle's ties to the Pentagon are its connections within the White House itself. Aside from signing up George Bush Sr. shortly after his presidential term ended, Carlyle gave George W. Bush a job on the board of Texas-based airline food caterer Caterair International back in 1991. Since Bush the younger took office this year, a number of events have raised eyebrows.
Shortly after George W. Bush was sworn in as president, he broke off talks with North Korea regarding long-range ballistic missiles, claiming there was no way to ensure North Korea would comply with any guidelines that were developed. The news came as a shock to South Korean officials, who had spent years negotiating with the North, assisted by the Clinton administration. By June, Mr. Bush had reopened negotiations with North Korea, but only at the urging of his own father. According to reports, the former president sent his son a memo persuasively arguing the need to work with the North Korean government. It was the first time the nation had seen the influence of the father on the son in office.
But what has been overlooked was Carlyle's business interest in Korea. The senior Bush had spearheaded the group's successful entrance into the South Korean market, paving the way for buyouts of Korea's KorAm Bank and Mercury, a telecommunications equipment company. For the business to be successful, stability between North and South Korea is critical. And though there is no direct evidence linking the senior Bush's business dealings in Korea with the change in policy, it is the appearance of impropriety that excites the watchdogs. "We are clearly aware that former President Bush has weighed in on policy toward South Korea and we note that U.S. policy changed after those communications," says Peter Eisner, managing director at the Center for Public Integrity, a watchdog group in Washington, D.C., which has an active file on the Carlyle Group. "We know that former President Bush receives remuneration for his work with Carlyle and that he is capable of advising the current president, but how much further it goes, we don't know."
SNIP...
And the controversy is expected only to increase as Carlyle's investments in Saudi Arabia are scrutinized during the war on terrorism. Mr. Eisner says that very little is known about Carlyle's involvements in Saudi Arabia, except that the firm has been making close to $50 million a year training the Saudi Arabian National Guard, troops that are sworn to protect the monarchy. Carlyle also advises the Saudi royal family on the Economic Offset Program, a system that is designed to encourage foreign businesses to open shop in Saudi Arabia and uses re-investment incentives to keep those businesses' proceeds in the country.
But the money flowing out of Saudi Arabia and into the Carlyle Group is of even more interest. Immediately after the September 11 attacks, reports surfaced of Carlyle's involvement with the Saudi Binladin Group, the $5 billion construction business run by Osama's half-brother Bakr. The bin Laden family invested $2 million in the Carlyle Partners II fund, which includes in its portfolio United Defense and other defense and aerospace companies. On October 26, the Carlyle Group severed its relationship with the bin Laden family in what officials termed a mutual decision. Mr. Bush Sr. and Mr. Major have been to Saudi Arabia on behalf of Carlyle as recently as last year, and according to reports, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently looking into the flow of money from the bin Laden family. Carlyle officials declined to answer any questions regarding their activities in Saudi Arabia.
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http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/CarlylesWay.html
Carlyle, Booz Allen's parent, makes a most disgusting group, the very embodiment of the warmongering corruption that is buy-partisan and the cultural norm in Wall Street on the Potomac.
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Maybe I miss it, but seems to me that one of the big elephants in the room is Booz-Allen. [View all]
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
OP
Precisely. Abramoff was an amateur compared to what was happening at Booz Allen is my GUESS.
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#52
This is the important article: 2 DNIs were Booz Allen Hamilton VPs before the govt job
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2013
#61
I'd call it a huge elephant turd from our chewed up tax dollars. Yeah, you'd think Congress
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#11
This is why so many have the agenda of making it all about Snowden and Greenwald
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#15
LOL! Snowden made it about himself when he decided to leak info to foreign countries. He could have
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#50
Where did you get the info that he actually gave data to foreign countries? nm
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#66
Unless I missed it, I don't think you can mention The Carlyle Group w/o naming the Bush clan.
byeya
Jul 2013
#23
This is from the Center for Global Research from 2003...can't vouch for them but I remember
byeya
Jul 2013
#42
Just because you have TS security doent mean you are allowed to access a ton of data.
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#69
Because their employees are screened by a hedge fund, that's why. It would create all kinds of
silvershadow
Jul 2013
#26
How can anyone be surprised that "lower level employees had access . . . . [to] a very large amount
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#49
That makes me feel so much better knowing he was intended to have that kind of access.
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#53
No. It really isn't intended to defend anything just to make an observation.
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#54
I've had the highest level access to companies assets for many years now
Cronus Protagonist
Jul 2013
#57