[Nettime-bold] It Helps To Have CONnections

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Source:
Eyes On America
http://eyesonamerica.org

It Helps To Have Connections
http://eyesonamerica.org/200110/10050102.html

By Jonathan Ashley

10-04-01

Dallas attorney Robert Jordan was confirmed Wednesday by the United
States
Senate to serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Jordan has no diplomatic experience. However, his connections leave no
doubt as to why he was named to the post. He defended George W. Bush in
a
probe of insider trading allegations in 1990. The allegations involved
the
sale by Bush of 60% of his Harken Energy Corp. stocks two months before
a
25% drop in the stock's price. According to a 7 Sep 2000 article by the
Associated Press, "At the time of the investigation, Bush's father was
president of the United States and the SEC was run by one of his biggest

political supporters, Richard Breeden. The SEC's then-general counsel,
James R. Doty, was another staunch presidential supporter who as a
private
attorney was George W. Bush's lawyer when he purchased his share of the
Texas Rangers baseball team."

This is not Jordan's only connection to the Bush family. Jordan is a
corporate lawyer in the Dallas office of Houston-based Baker Botts.
Baker
Botts has an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The client list at Baker
Botts
includes "more than half of the Fortune 100 companies". The client list
also includes The Carlyle Group. On the board of directors for Carlyle
is
former President George Herbert Walker Bush.

James A. Baker III is the current Baker in Baker Botts. Baker was
Secretary
of State under the first President Bush. He is currently senior counsel
to
The Carlyle Group. Baker was a classmate of Donald H. Rumsfeld at Yale
University. Rumsfeld, the current Secretary of Defense, was the roommate
of
Frank C. Carlucci at Yale.

Carlucci, who was head of the National Security Counsel under President
Ronald Reagan, is currently chairman of The Carlyle Group.

The current President Bush was a director of Caterair during the years
1990-1994. Caterair is owned by The Carlyle Group.

The board of directors of The Carlyle Group also includes: former
Phillipines President Fidel V. Ramos, former director of the U.S. Office
of
Management & Budget Richard Darman, former Assistant to the President
(Bush
I) Robert Grady, the Prime Minister of South Korea, Park Tae Joon,
former
SEC chairman Arthur Levitt, former Prime Minister of Great Britain John
Major, former general director of the World Health Organization Michael
Orloff, retired U.S. Army General J. H. Binford Peay, former president
of
Deutsche Bundesbank Karl Otto Pohl, and former chairman of the Joint
Chief's of Staff John Shalikashvili.

Two-thirds of Carlyle's holding are in defense and telecommunications
companies.

At least $2 million of Carlyle funding has come from the bin Laden
family
of Saudi Arabia.


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