"The subsequent investigation of the downed cargo plane revealed for the first time a connection between the office of George Bush and a clandestine campaign to arm the contras – during the 1984-86 period when the U.S. Congress had ordered a halt to CIA and Pentagon aid."
"Bush and Gregg were deeply involved in a previously undisclosed weapons-smuggling operation to arm the contras that began in 1982, two years b4 the much publicized Iran-contra operation run by marine lieutenant colonel Oliver North and financed by the sale of missiles to Iran."
"The Mossad already had a high-ranking official in place in Noriega’s inner circle. His name was Michael Harari. In 1983, Harari began negotiating with Noriega and his intelligence chief requesting landing privileges at Panamanian airfields for the use of Panamanian companies...
...to conceal payrolls & other transactions.
“He told us that Israel and Casey and Bush were involved in this. Harari wanted Noriega to have a relationship with Bush.” If Noriega cooperated, he would have political IOUs at the CIA & the VP’s office.
“He told us that Israel and Casey and Bush were involved in this. Harari wanted Noriega to have a relationship with Bush.” If Noriega cooperated, he would have political IOUs at the CIA & the VP’s office.
May 7, 2018
(History continues to repeat itself when that's what the leadership wants.)
nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/…
(History continues to repeat itself when that's what the leadership wants.)
nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/…
(L-R) Saudi Prince Abdullah, US State Secy. Jim Baker, Pres. Bush & King Fahd, sitting, (separately) discussing gulf crisis. 
"The Carlyle Group will sound very familiar to anyone whose memory extends back 30 yrs. George H.W. Bush was hip-deep in the place & on Sept. 11, 2001, he was at a Carlyle meeting in D.C. w/ Shafiq bin Laden, whose brother was otherwise occupied that day."
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"Perhaps there would be less reason to worry if Carlyle's activities were more open—but as a private equity firm, it has largely escaped America's recent efforts to improve the governance and transparency of companies, which is unfortunate."
economist.com/books-and-arts…
economist.com/books-and-arts…
May 14, 2009
"The Carlyle Group, a giant Wall Street firm best known for its ties to former President George H.W. Bush, made more than $13M in payments to an indicted political fixer who arranged for the firm to receive business from a NY pension fund."
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"The Carlyle Group, a giant Wall Street firm best known for its ties to former President George H.W. Bush, made more than $13M in payments to an indicted political fixer who arranged for the firm to receive business from a NY pension fund."
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In fact, the government alums in the Carlyle Group are so well connected internationally that, until Sept. 11, the group was even trusted to invest the funds of the Bin Laden family...The elder Bush himself is well connected with the Saudis...
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"Frank Carlucci, who advocated an arms buildup in the 1980s before becoming defense secretary under President Ronald Reagan and later expanded the influence of Carlyle Group as the investment firm’s chairman."
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"When George H.W. Bush came to power in 1989, Carlucci moved to Carlyle Group, a Washington-based firm that employed former government officers, including Secretary of State James Baker, Rumsfeld and later Bush himself."
"The Bush and Rubenstein families traveled together, and the Bushes were among the prominent visitors to the compound the Rubensteins eventually built in Nantucket."
May 17, 2018
fortune.com/2018/05/17/fac…
fortune.com/2018/05/17/fac…
Carlucci was also the head of the advisory board for Populex, a company that built voting software and was contracted to provide voting systems in Illinois.
m.dailykos.com/stories/300266
m.dailykos.com/stories/300266
"In 2006, the House and the Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation to expand the committee’s scope, give a greater role to the office of the director of national intelligence and strengthen Congressional oversight of the review process...
...But the Bush administration opposed major changes, and Congressional leaders did not act to reconcile the two bills before Congress adjourned.
nytimes.com/2006/10/29/was…
nytimes.com/2006/10/29/was…
It’s worked for decades.
“A good deal of image-burnishing has gone on — deftly, too. However clumsy the Bushes may seem, they are well schooled in the upper-class art of making self-promotion seem a concession to public demand...”
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“A good deal of image-burnishing has gone on — deftly, too. However clumsy the Bushes may seem, they are well schooled in the upper-class art of making self-promotion seem a concession to public demand...”
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