again yet you get selective amnesia and try to present
it as new facts.
Richard Clark complained publicly that he told Moore
several times that he was responsible for the flights
and not to use it in the film but Moore left it in
anyway. It was not a Bush thing it was a Clark thing.
"On 9-11, 9-12 and 9-13, many things didn't get any
higher than me. I decided it in consultation with the
FBI," Clarke said of the plane flight carrying bin
Laden's relatives.
And as for the $1.4 billion:
Nearly 90 percent of that claimed amount, $1.18
billion, comes from contracts in the early to
mid-1990�s that the Saudi Arabian government awarded
to a U.S. defense contractor, BDM, for training the
country�s military and National Guard. The �Bush�
connection: The firm at the time was owned by the
Carlyle Group, a private-equity firm whose
Asian-affiliate advisory board once included the
president�s father, George H.W. Bush.
But, points out Newsweek, former president Bush didn�t
join the Carlyle advisory board until April, 1998 --
five months after Carlyle had already sold BDM to
another defense firm.
As for the sitting president�s own Carlyle link, his
service on the board ended when he quit to run for
Texas governor -- a few months before the first of the
Saudi contracts to the unrelated BDM firm was awarded.
The Carlyle Group is hardly a �Bush Inc,� noted
Newsweek � but rather features a roster of bipartisan
Washington power figures. �Its founding and still
managing partner is Howard Rubenstein, a former top
domestic policy advisor to Jimmy Carter. Among the
firm�s senior advisors is Thomas �Mack� McLarty, Bill
Clinton�s former White House chief of staff, and
Arthur Levitt, Clinton�s former chairman of the
Securities and Exchange Commission. One of its other
managing partners is William Cannard, Clinton�s
chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.�
According to the report, the movie neglects to offer
any evidence that Bush White House intervened in any
way to bolster the interests of the Carlyle Group. In
fact, the one major Bush administration decision that
most directly affected the company�s interest was the
cancellation of a $11 billion program for the Crusader
rocket artillery system. The Crusader was manufactured
by United Defense, which had been wholly owned by
Carlyle until it spun the company off in a public
offering in October, 2001. Carlyle still owned 47
percent of the shares in the defense company at the
time that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
canceled the Crusader program the following year.
-sm
--- dana tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But I thought I would bring this up as the shades of
> grey in the facts
> had previously led some people to say this story was
> just Michael
> Moore lying.
>
> fyi
> Dana
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