From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will be my last post today (I promise). The promise of an Arkansas Development Finance Authority ("ADFA") was a plank in Clinton's campaign in 1994. It became law, through the lobbying efforts of Rose partner Webb Hubbell, in January 1985. ADFA was touted by Clinton as a panacea for the financial ills of minorities and women in Arkansas. Clinton promised that long-term, low-interest loans would be underwritten by ADFA, for women and minorities who had the entrepreneurial spirit, but who were having difficulty obtaining funds. The only loan actually underwritten by ADFA while Clinton was governor of Arkansas, was a $2.5 million loan to a company called Park-O-Meter, which was owned by Webb Hubbell's inlaws, the Wards. The Wards also owned a company in Conway, Arkansas, that manufactured school buses. With the help of former Sen. J. Wm. Fulbright, that company (I think it was called Ward Industries), got a huge contract to build and sell buses to the Saudis. BCCI was involved in that transaction. What Park-O-Meter did with the money was convert some of its metal-tooling apparati. It went from manufacturing parking meters, to manufacturing conversion kits for the chambers of Colt AR-15, semi-automatic rifles. With the kit, an AR-15 became an M-16 (which we used in Vietnam, and which, because of the construction of the chamber and feeding mechanism, is converted into a fully automatic weapon with the click of a switch near the magazine). I have it on pretty good information that Park-0-Meter's conversion kits weren't sold to the U.S. Military. They were packaged and sold as part of Iran-Contra. Ollie North supervised that aspect of the operations. Now here's an interesting tidbit: The same manufacturers who were supplying much of the weapons and conversion kits the CIA transported to the Contras, for drugs and black money, also supplied the same contraband to the Branch Davidians. That information can be pieced together easily from several sources: transcripts of hearings, the government's own reports on the Branch Davidian incident, and the initial reports filed by the McLennan County, Texas, Sheriff's Office, with the ATF. FOIA is a great tool! Oh yeah, ADFA WAS useful for one thing: laundering drug money using disguised contributions to Clinton's goober-natorial campaigns. But that's another story for another day. Odom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MAXIMIZE YOUR CARD, MINIMIZE YOUR RATE! Get a NextCard Visa, in 30 seconds! Get rates as low as 0.0% Intro or 9.9% Fixed APR and no hidden fees. Apply NOW! http://click.egroups.com/1/2122/2/_/475667/_/952373359/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
