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Newsbits: The Revenge!
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Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:19:42 GMT
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A White House Smear
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=823
Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working
covertly in a field of vital importance to national security--and break the
law--in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others?
snip!
Wilson caused problems for the White House, and his wife was outed as an
undercover CIA officer. Wilson says, “I will not answer questions about my wife.
This is not about me and less so about my wife. It has always been about the
facts underpinning the President’s statement in the state of the union speech.”
So he will neither confirm nor deny that his wife--who is the mother of
three-year- old twins--works for the CIA. But let’s assume she does. That would
seem to mean that the Bush administration has screwed one of its own top-secret
operatives in order to punish Wilson or to send a message to others who might
challenge it.
Some Feds Slow 9-11 Probe, Preventing Closure
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0717-10.htm
Why is there a problem in getting to the bottom of this horrific attack against
the nation? Could the attacks have been prevented? And where do we go from here?
snip!
The Bush administration, which had initially opposed the creation of the
commission, is probably not too happy that its conclusions will be aired smack
in the middle of the 2004 presidential election campaign.
snip!
The White House’s lack of enthusiasm about a national independent commission
probing its top-secret files led the administration to try to block early
attempts at launching the inquiry. A joint congressional investigation is still
trying to get a government green light to release the key documents it gathered
during its hearings.
Palast the Iconoclast
http://alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=16438
“I was concerned with why we weren’t following the money,” he says. “The same
Saudi money that funded G.W.‘s oil companies, financed Osama and terrorists
... The bin Laden family’s financier in America James R. Bath, was the backer
of George W. Bush’s earliest oil patch ventures.” According to Palast, Bath
represented the interests of “Osama’s daddy, Sheikh Salim bin Laden, and Sheikh
Kalid bin Mahfouz, who had a connection to BCCI,” the scandalous Bank of Credit
and Commerce, a.k.a. the “Bank of Crooks and Criminals,” tied to arms
trafficking, money laundering, etc. In “Bush Family Fortunes,” Palast contends:
“So Bush’s oil capital coming from Bath, and Bath’s money coming apparently from
the bin Ladens.”
“I know bin Mahfouz has been under investigation by European intelligence
agencies as a possible funder of Al-Qaeda,” asserts Palast. He adds that
according to a European intelligence agency and arms dealer, after the 1996
Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdullah Bakhsh (who had helped
fund G.W.‘s troubled oil firm in the 1980s) and Khashoggi attended a meeting
with Saudi billionaires and Al-Qaeda’s financial arm. In essence, Palast claims
the Saudis paid protection money to the terrorists.
In this reporter’s interview with him, Palast said: “Don’t forget Osama was our
boy, created in the Bush’s Frankenstein factory. We were proud that the bin
Ladens gave America one of its eldest sons to go fight the evil empire in
Afghanistan.” Most of the anti- Soviet jihad took place while ex-CIA chief
George Herbert Walker Bush was vice president and president. In the documentary,
the investigative reporter asks, “Were the Bushes too close to the Saudis to see
the dangers emerging from that nation?” The question is followed by 9/11 footage
of the Twin Towers pandemonium, as a woman shrieks: “Oh my god!” (Nobody has
ever accused Palast of subtlety.)
During the Reagan-Bush era, the State Department allegedly gave visas to
unqualified applicants in Saudi Arabia -- supposed “engineers” with no
engineering backgrounds -- who were really Osama’s terrorists, off to America
for CIA training they would use in Afghanistan. After taking office, the current
president’s “administration blocked key investigations” pertaining to the bin
Ladens, and let stateside members of the family return to Saudi Arabia shortly
after Sept. 11th.
To be sure, Bush has vigorously -- some would say overzealously -- prosecuted
the so- called “war on terror.” Yet Bush Senior remains a paid retainer of the
Carlyle Group, a defense contractor which the bin Ladens previously invested in.
(According to “Bush Family Fortunes,” Dubya was also on Carlyle’s payroll.)
Nothing Left To Lie About: With BushCo reaming the nation on just about every
possible front, is implosion imminent?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/07/16/notes071603.DTL&type=printable
An editorial piece, SF style!
-- Hop-Frog
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