The White House connection: Saudi `agents' close Bush friends

Boston Hearald ^ | December 11, 2001 | Maggie Mulvihill, Jonathan Wells and Jack Meyers

[OKCSubmariner]

Please see reply #19 FYI

[Triple]

I also find the BCCI connection interesting. The head of the FBI, Mueller, was the prosecutor on BCCI, and, in spite of all the illegality, got almost no convictions.

Read the Wall Street Journal editorial blasting Mueller on BCCI the week before he was appointed by Bush.

[deport]

Give it a day or two and we'll have a major Press Release announcing the FOIA request for all documents relating to any Saudi every having contact with the Bush White House, the Texas Governors Mansion while he was Governor, all contracts and/or contacts for oil between any Saudi firm and any oil company that the Bush's held stock in or ever talked to.... and on and on....

[joathome]

haha "Close" friends? How many close friends can one man have?

[OKCSubmariner]

Thanks for posting the Globe article and for your very reponsible remarks.

Some of the Bush supporters are too defensive sometimes. They do not understand that even if Bush comes out clean as whistle that these facts need to be investigated and mistakes and policiy failures need to be corrected to protect America. Protecting America and her citizens, come first, before the FBI, CIA and even the President. The Bush supporters also need to be concerned that Mueller and Tenet and Ashcroft have been sandbagging Bush and lying to him and giving him bad advice. I know I am concerned about this and I voted for Bush.

THe claim that we are not to raise valid critical questions and complaints without being accused of helping or being Democrats is an invalid and counterproductive claim especially at a time of war with terrorists on our shores when public trust and unity must be maintained by proper public investigations, disclosures and corrections of failures.

[Mr. Bird]

My question was an honest one. Not trying to create motives where there are none. My lack of interest in these items stems from what we have learned over the past several years, when all the D.C. lawyers got to come out and play.

Unlike Kevin Bacon, you would probably only need 1 or 2 degrees of separation to link George W. Bush with any and all movers and shakers on the globe. He was an active presence in his father's administration, both a success and a flop as a businessman in the largest state in the union, of which he later became governor. He's no hayseed from Hot Springs. Legal Washington is so incestuous that I never try to untangle webs involving attorney links. I mean, Bob Bennett is William Bennett's brother for crying out loud.

[concerned about politics]

This article was a waste of ink.
It's like charging the Bush administration for Enron.
Look at the little tiny Bush connections, and overlook the massive archives of dumpocrap connections.
Hey, my neighbor is a Saudi. I even talked to him about the weather! Why am I not front page news?
Pure bias and BS.

[rebdov]

"Aren't lawyers supposed to defend their clients as innocent until proven guilty?"

That is only in a court of law. In the court of personal opinion it smells. Do you think Lindh is innocent because he gets that presumption in court? I don't. The President should distance himself from people who want to whitewash terrorists. Most people would.

[rdavis84]

Article

I guess it's O.K. to link direct to the WP.

[OKCSubmariner]

BUMP!

Please see replies #15,#19,and #25. Thanks.

[aculeus]

People share lawyers.

So freaking what?

[spqrzilla9]

Some of the Bush supporters are too defensive sometimes. They do not understand that even if Bush comes out clean as whistle that these facts need to be investigated and mistakes and policiy failures need to be corrected to protect America. Protecting America and her citizens, come first, before the FBI, CIA and even the President.

Nothing in this piece even begins to support the innuendoes. There are no "facts" that need investigation. One can only conclude that this is just baseless Bush-bashing.

[Triple]

Look at the (Jordan - holy land) and (Mueller - bcci) angles.

see my above reply

and, if you can take it, you might consider that Bush may be the author of some poor judgement.

[OKCSubmariner]

Thanks very much for creating the "clickable" link to the Washington Post article referred to in reply #15 and #19 about Bush asking that Congressional hearings be restriced secret with no public hearings to be allowed.

[Triple]

How 'bout that Vernon Jordan's law firm represents the Holy Land Foundation which was known to be a terrorist funding organization by Clinton in 1994 - and was allowed to continue to operate. (according to Dick Morris on Greta Van Sustern)

[Triple]

The article is more 'a bunch of connections' than anything that has a point - IMO

[concerned about politics]

One can only conclude that this is just baseless Bush-bashing.

Yeh. Bears repeating. The Libertarians are still unhappy their guy didn't win. Neither did Gore.

[OKCSubmariner]

This is a valid article from a very reputable news source, the Boston Globe who has been deligently searching for the truth night and day since 9/11 in my opinon based on conversations I have had with their reporters.

There is much more substance to the article than to the spin of your reply #32.

Why not try posting some artricle that contain facts to support your point of view rather than just claiming that the article is baseless? At least Tiple produced a valid article from a good news source which is a lot more than what you have done so far.

If you really are interested in searching for the facts I suggest you go to the Boston Globe website and the Washington Post website and you can find many more valid articles on the same subject that provide a sound basis for raising valid, critical questions. If you search the FR archives you will also find other posts from other reputable news sources that raise the same valid facts and questions.

Your spin reminds me of the spin in reply #27 and also by the White House that Enron is just a business problem and not a political problem. That is an absurd spin even if the White House is filled with saints because Enron gave huge sums to POLITICIANS , Democrats and Republicans alike, who knew there was a problem and did not take corrective actions even when warned by US gov officials repeatedly in hearings (this was revealed by guests on NightLine who had testified earlier before Congress).

Enron is perceived by the public as a political problem regardless of White House spins to the contrary. The White House is taking the wrong approach and looks foolish (who do they think they are kidding, hmm?) to try and bludgeon with PR blitz anyone who suggests it is also political.

[Free the USA]

bump

[spqrzilla9]

So, to boil down your posting, you cannot think of any way to turn the innuendo into a real issue about President Bush, so you try to run off to the Enron story.

Not buying it.