Jimmy Carter linked to oil-for-food scam!

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | January 20, 2005 | WorldNetDaily.com

[Ramtek57]

Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict the United Nations from American soil and halt U.S. funding of the U.N.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42464

[snowsislander]

Can you please tell this GenXer about BCCI? Thanks...

To put the known and generally accepted facts into a very small nutshell, BCCI was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, based in the Middle East and with branches all over the place (I have at least one 1990s era map of Tokyo that shows its branch office there). It was a criminal enterprise, a fraudulent institution (to say the least) that was finally confronted by the British, if memory serves. Google searches indicate that it was founded in the early 1970s, which sounds about right.

Going over some very old memories (aided by Google, which unfortunately may influence when I seem to remember what -- a lot of information about this institution came out over a long period of time), I believe the first time that I remember hearing anything about its ways was back with Bert Lance, a prominent member of President Carter's administration and a Georgia banker of some note, and around some unsavory loans around the Carter administration.

As memory has it (and Google), this bank was about as dirty as you can get: it used Ponzi accounting, it outright stole money from depositors, it was involved in the drug trade, political corruption, and just about every other bad thing imaginable. President Carter evidently associated himself with at least some of these people; there was talk that there was a loan to save his peanut operation, though I believe that that was long argued as to exactly BCCI's role (if any) in that, and it may well have been that that was just Saudi money. (I think it is generally accepted that there was a bridge loan from the Middle East to cover his operation while waiting on a peanut crop to come in, but I could be wrong about that -- it's hard to sort out the conspiracy theories from the facts from the old memories on all of this.)

Knowing Free Republic, I am sure that there are people with very detailed information about this subject instead of my maundering and meandering memories of one of our worst President's embarrassing shenanigans. Let's just say that I don't discount these new allegations, although I would like to see another source other than WorldNet on this one.

[msdrby]

ping

[Happy2BMe]

AND IN OTHER NEWS - FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER CAUGHT IN KOFI ANAN'S OIL-FOR-FOOD SCANDAL - ping.

(I guess Alabama peanutes just aren't getting a good enough return on the market.)

No wonder this wretch has been such a staunch anti-war flame.

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Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict the United Nations from American soil and halt U.S. funding of the U.N.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42464

[Eva]

I have been thinking that we should perhaps look at the possibility of a similar scam from the Chavez regime in Venezuela. The remarks made by Lincoln Chaffee, during the Condi Rice interrogation, set off warning bells in my head.

[pieces of time]

Did Carter monitor and certify Sadaam's election, the one where Sadaam received 99% of the vote?

Seriously, I wonder if this is one of the reasons why "prominent" liberal Dems are silent on Oil for Food, and so supportive of the UN.

[Robert DeLong]

Surprise surprise surprise. Why does this NOT surprise me?

[MeekOneGOP]

"I'm shocked, SHOCKED" ping

hahahaaaaa!

"I'm comin' to join ya, Elizabeth!"

--Fred Sanford

[Nataku X]

Thank you so much for taking the time to summarize the BCCI/Carter story for me. Indeed, it's hard to separate the facts from the tinfoils on Google; I read your recap very thoroughly and I do appreciate it very much.

For now, it sounds like WND is spinning Carter's meetings with a person involved in Oil-for-Food as evidence that Carter himself is somehow complicit. That in and of itself is not evidence enough, but given what you told me of his history, it wouldn't be surprising if it panned out to something more substantial.

[Calpernia]

Bump!

Thank you.

[Happy2BMe]

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Jimmy Carter linked
to oil-for-food scam
Ex-president worked with key figure
in scandal combating Iraqi sanctions

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Posted: January 20, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Jimmy Carter speaking in Tokyo in 2003 (photo: United Nations University)

Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict the United Nations from American soil and halt U.S. funding of the U.N.

Move America Forward today will call upon Carter to provide a full accounting of his meetings and conversations with Samir Vincent, who yesterday pleaded guilty to participating in numerous illegal activities as part of the U.N. scandal.

"President Carter needs to tell the American people exactly what relationships he had with the individuals involved in the oil-for-food scandal," said Melanie Morgan, co-chairman of Move America Forward, which is running television ads attacking the U.N. on national cable news networks, conducting an online petition drive and soliciting contributions to spread the message of the TV spots.

Samir Vincent admitted on Tuesday to receiving allocations for more than 9 million barrels of oil between 1996 and 2003 in return for serving as an agent of Saddam Hussein's regime. Vincent worked at Hussein's direction, lobbying U.S. and U.N. officials to end sanctions and to instead implement the oil-for-food scam.

"Did President Carter know he was dealing with an agent of Saddam Hussein or was he just terribly gullible?" asked Morgan. "And if he truly was naïve as to Samir Vincent's true agenda, then now is the time for him to come forward and repudiate Mr. Vincent and his actions."

According to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, "Vincent lobbied former officials of the United States government, who maintained close contacts to high-ranking members of both the Clinton and Bush administrations."

Ashcroft asserted that Vincent reported the results of his efforts with these former U.S. officials to the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

Based upon an investigation by Move America Forward, it appears President Carter and his associates are among the former officials with whom Vincent collaborated.

"One of two things happened," suggests Morgan. "Either President Carter was totally duped, and allowed himself to be conned into working as an indirect agent of Saddam Hussein, or President Carter knowingly associated himself with a foreign agent who was seeking to undermine American foreign policy."

The first documented contact between Former President Carter and Samir Vincent was in September 1999. Vincent had organized a tour of Iraqi religious leaders to meet with individuals in the United States who might be persuaded to speak out against the sanctions against Iraq. The trip also included discussions of ways to oppose U.S. and U.K. air strikes against Iraqi missile batteries in southern Iraq, which had fired on American and British aircraft engaged in enforcing the southern "No Fly Zone."

The meeting with Carter was one of the highlights of the trip. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, welcomed the Vincent-organized delegation into their home in Plains, Georgia.

The weekly Iraqi newspaper, al-Raee, reported that Carter expressed his sympathies with the Iraqi people and railed against the "stringent" sanctions imposed against Iraq as a result of the nation's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The report claimed that Carter had promised to send his wife and son to Iraq. Along with the story was a photograph of Carter with the three religious dignitaries who were part of Vincent's anti-sanctions lobbying tour.

After the meeting at Carter's house, the Carters' son, Chip, escorted the delegation to a tour of the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Carter and his wife founded the Carter Center and their son, Chip, serves as vice president. The Carter Center went on to become an ideological missile silo against any U.S. policies that were not favorable towards Iraq," according to Move America Forward.

Carter and his associates have been particularly vicious in their criticisms of President Bush and his Iraq policy, say Move America Forward officials. According to the Ghana News Agency, Chip Carter said President Bush was "bringing back the ugly politics where other people see America as the enemy."

[Ditto]

Follow the money. Check out Chip and Andy Young, two long time professional parasites, and we will probably find some blood money.

[Another Thought]

Carter has never recovered from losing his re-election. He simply busied himself setting up a "government in exile." (Interestingly, this is really the way the MSM now views and behaves toward Democrats in general.) I agree that Carter's actions would have been viewed as treasonous in the 19th century. The early governments of this nation would never have tolerated actions such as his (nor Kerry's as a matter of fact).

[Grampa Dave]

Carter has been receiving funding from the Opecker Princes/Thugs for over a decade.

They donate to his library, and then he gets to spend that money.

Carter is the man responsible for the Mass Murdering Mullahs being in power for close to two decadws. He was bought out by the Russians and the Islamofascists before he became president.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Reading that article absolutely makes me want to hurl. Carter and his family are a disgrace.

[showme_the_Glory]

How about both? Stupid and has an agenda?
Criminals are notoriously stupid, especially if they are Rats too.

[Calpernia]

>>>maundering and meandering memories

I'm VERY appreciative of your memories.

I don't have any memory of any of that.

You sharing gives me a basis of understanding for when I hear and read more.

Thank you.

[Another Thought]

I don't think the quest for money is in his makeup.

-------Baloney. He's got to have money to fund all of his "do-gooding" all over the world. Who funds the Carter Center????

[snowsislander]

Thank you so much for taking the time to summarize the BCCI/Carter story for me. Indeed, it's hard to separate the facts from the tinfoils on Google; I read your recap very thoroughly and I do appreciate it very much.

I hope that it is at least mostly accurate; as I said, I think most people wouldn't disagree violently with my first paragraph. The latter paragraphs are a farrago of old memories with a strong dash of jogging from Google searching.

For now, it sounds like WND is spinning Carter's meetings with a person involved in Oil-for-Food as evidence that Carter himself is somehow complicit. That in and of itself is not evidence enough, but given what you told me of his history, it wouldn't be surprising if it panned out to something more substantial.

I wouldn't find it surprising, but I want to see more than just a WorldNet (or NewsMax) story on the subject.

[Cold Heat]

Good stuff!

I hope Rush picks this up in his stack of stuff today.

[Conspiracy Guy]

What a surprize.