Bush scandal list

This is stunning.

C & L....A Crippling Legacy
By: Nicole Belle on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 at 6:02 PM - PST

Vanity Fair offers a sobering look at the costs that we — and our children and their children — will pay for the last eight years of Bush/Cheney economics.

The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be felt beyond the lifetime of anyone reading this page.

Bonddad at Huffpo

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What Bush crime Family ?
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 11:59pm.

http://aramblingguy.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/bush-family-photo.jpg

could it be this one?
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/10/america/NA-GEN-US-Saudi-Bandar...
US judge blocks Saudi Prince Bandar from moving real estate sale proceeds out of U.S.
The Associated Press
Published: February 10, 2008
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to the United States, from removing real estate sales proceeds from the United States pending resolution of a class-action lawsuit.

The suit filed last September by a tiny Michigan city retirement system accuses current and former directors of BAE Systems PLC, a giant British defense company, of breaches of fiduciary duties in connection with $2 billion or more in alleged illegal bribes paid to Bandar in connection with an $86 billion BAE arms sale to Saudi Arabia in 1985.

Bandar also is named a defendant in the suit, along with the former Riggs Bank of Washington and its successor, PNC Financial Group.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...
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http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=2974
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There are three separate activities for which Riggs has come under investigation: (1) its relationship with the Saudi royal family and the potential financing of two of the September 11 hijackers through an account owned by the wife of the Saudi ambassador; (2) its relationship with the corrupt and dictatorial regime of the oil-rich West African country of Equatorial Guinea; and (3) its banking business with the former military dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet.
The Saudi accounts

The public revelations concerning the bank’s relationship with Saudi Arabia came mainly through the publication of a Newsweek article on December 2, 2002 (“The Saudi Money Trail”). The news magazine reported that in January 2000, two of the hijackers who were on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon—Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar—received monetary aid and other assistance from Omar al-Bayoumi.

Alhazmi and Almihdhar are at the center of suspicions of US government complicity in the 9/11 attacks—and for good reason. The CIA had identified the two as early as January 2000 as Al Qaeda operatives, and the Washington Post reported in June 2002 that the FBI also knew of the two from January of 2000. Yet they were allowed to enter the US and live openly in San Diego for 18 months prior to the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Newsweek reported in September 2002 that the roommate of Alhazmi and Almihdhar in San Diego was an FBI informant!
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What are these dots?
Submitted by Fernando on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 11:35pm.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20191-2004Aug20.html
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/rigg-a24.shtml
http://www.truveo.com/UK-rolled-over-in-BAE-probe/id/1273828017
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More insidious when you know...
Submitted by CeeCee on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 11:43pm.

What are these dots?
Submitted by Fernando on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 11:30pm.
pbtrue1 on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 11:01pm.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20191-2004Aug20.html

"Joe L. Allbritton, 79, and his wife, Barbara, and son Robert, who is chairman of the bank and holding company, according to the sources" also owns...

...The Allbritton Communications Company is a Washington, D.C.-based owner of television stations-all affiliated with ABC after signing an affiliation agreement in 1997.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allbritton_Communications_Company
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Really CeeCee
Submitted by Fernando on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 12:08am.

Allbritton launched The Politico, a political news website and newspaper on January 23rd, 2007, the day of the 2007 State of the Union Address.
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I was looking at this last night. What I got out of it is in HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF.

I would have put it here but I couldn't find your post.

Originally Posted July 9, 2003
By Greg Palast

This excerpt is taken from Greg Palast's book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy available from www.gregpalast.com

George W. could not have amassed this pile if his surname were Jones or Smith. While other candidates begged, pleaded and wheedled for donations, the Bushes added a creative, lucrative new twist to the money chase that contenders couldn't imitate: "Poppy" Bush's post–White House work. It laid the foundation for Dubya's campaign kitty corpulence and, not incidentally, raised the family's net worth by several hundred percent.

In 1998, for example, the former president and famed Desert Stormtrooper-in-Chief wrote to the oil minister of Kuwait on behalf of Chevron Oil Corporation. Bush says, honestly, that he "had no stake in the Chevron operation." True, but following this selfless use of his influence, the oil company put $657,000 into the Republican Party coffers.

That year Bush père created a storm in Argentina when he lobbied his close political ally, President Carlos Menem, to grant a gambling license to Mirage Casino Corporation. Once again, the senior Bush wrote that he had no personal interest in the deal. However, Bush fils made out quite nicely: After the casino fiap, Mirage dropped $449,000 into the Republican Party war chest.

Much of Bush's loot, reports the Center for Responsive Politics, came in the form of "bundled" and "soft" money. That's the squishy stuff corporations use to ooze around U.S. law, which prohibits any direct donations from corporations.

Not all of the elder Bush's work is voluntary. His single talk to the board of Global Crossing, the telecom start-up, earned him stock worth $13 million when the company went public. Global Crossing's employees also kicked in another million for the younger Bush's run. (We'll meet Global Crossing again in Chapter 3.)

And while the Bush family steadfastly believes that ex-felons should not have the right to vote for president, they have no objection to ex-cons putting presidents on their payroll. In 1996, despite pleas by U.S. church leaders, Poppy Bush gave several speeches (he charges $100,000 per talk) sponsored by organizations run by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, cult leader, tax cheat—and formerly the guest of the U.S. federal prison system. Some of the loot for the Republican effort in the 1997–2000 election cycles came from an outfit called Barrick Corporation.

http://www.gregpalast.com/poppy-strikes-gold/#more-2006

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