-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37dc3d4e3854.htm <A HREF="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37dc3d4e3854.htm">Presidential Treason 105 [Free Republic]</A> --[2]-- Erskine Bowles Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) (March 1993-October 1994) White House Deputy Chief of Staff (October 1994-December 1995) White House Chief of Staff (January 1997-November 1998) Well, let's see if we can find the Bowles/China connection... Bowles was the founder, chairman and CEO of Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co. from 1975-1993. Bowles is defined as an investment banker and his firm deals in mergers and acquisitions for mid-size companies. This could be a conflict of interest with his 1 1/2 year stint as head of the U.S. Small Business Administration dealing with small to mid-size companies. But with the Clinton associate's documented abuse of the SBA this is not unusual. The SBA is a whole other subject for a future report. On to the China connection... We will show through various quotes that Erskine Bowles knew the Lippo-controlling Riady family and was integrally entwined with NationsBank which loaned the DNC the bail out money for the corrupt 1996 campaign, the same bank that bought out the infamous Lippo-connected Worthen Bank of Little Rock. He was also entwined with the Lippo-connected First Union, where he is currently on the board of directors, through the dealings with his company Bowles Hollowell Conner. You will see Bowles' further connection to these two banks by their investment in his new company, Carousel. From this, it should become clear why and how Bowles and McLarty obtained the work-free pay for Hubbell in the amount of $100,000 from Lippo. (Bowles, his two companies and the two banks are all based in Charlotte, North Carolina.) Let's examine the evidence... >From the Washington Post 4/2/97: "Bowles got to know Hubbell in late 1992, during a post-election economic summit in Little Rock attended by Kantor, members of the Lippo-controlling Riady family and others who later were involved in arranging payments to Hubbell." >From the First Union Corporation's webside: "And in 1998, the firm[First Union] purchased M&A advisory boutique Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co. (which was co-founded by former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles)." "When North Carolina-based M&A boutique Bowles Hollowell Connor announced it would be acquired by commercial bank First Union in the spring of 1998, much interest focused on one of the firm's name founders, former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles. Was the firm's acquisition only interesting because of the White House connection? Far from it." "...And while BHC was indeed co-founded by Erskine Bowles in 1975, Bowles has sold his stake and is no longer affiliated with the company." Well, that certainly puts it all above board. Oops - what's this? The old reappearing act... Also from their webside - "Charlotte, N.C., March 12 [1999]/PRNewswire/ -- First Union Corporation (NYSE: FTU) today announced the nominations of Erskine B. Bowles and James E. S. Hynes to its board of directors. First Union shareholders will vote on the nominations at the annual shareholders meeting in April." Now that's more like it! >From the Reuters Business Report February 15, 1995, "First Union Corp, a North Carolina-based banking company, and Hong Kong's Lippo Ltd. said Wednesday they will combine marketing efforts in a trade finance network in Southeast Asia and the Pacific rim. The two banking companies also plan to expand joint operations in Los Angeles at Lippo Bank, Calif., to process letter of credit and related services as of April. The deal builds on an agreement in December between Lippo's Hong Kong Chinese Bank and First Union to form a joint deposit-taking company. That venture, First Union HKCB Asia Ltd., provides trade financing services in Hong Kong, China and the United States. First Union and Lippo Group also are launching a trade initiative that will provide international products and services through Lippo Group offices in Jakarta, Indonesia; Manila, Philippines; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bangkok, Thailand; and Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi in Vietnam. 'By linking this Asian network to our international products and services through Lippo Group offices in Charlotte and Miami, we are gaining a competitive advantage that will enable First Union and the Lippo Group to substantially increase the flow of trade transactions' First Union said in a statement." The New York Times 4/24/97: "In the United States, Lippo has a banking alliance with First Union Corp., a banking giant based in North Carolina." So, with First Union's connection with Lippo, the question is did Bowles Hollowell Connor have dealings with First Union before its acquisition? In a telephone conversation with BHC's Marketing Department they confirmed the following statement: "Bowles Hollowell Connor has been dealing with First Union over the past 25 years." And further added that they were right down the block from them. This just might explain how two Lippo connected appointees, McLarty and Bowles, managed to get a $100,000 'consulting fee' from Lippo to Hubbell. Currently First Union does not advertise the Lippo connection - for obvious reasons. However, The Lippo Group website proudly lists this anomaly as "Lippo + First Union Bank, USA - First Union HKCB Asia Ltd." American Spectator in March 1997 stated: "As one congressional staffer who has been tracking China Resources points out, Lippo boss Mochtar Riady "has a symbiotic relationship with the Chinese government. They sit on the same boards together through the Hong Kong Chinese Bank. The Chinese could easily have gained access to Lippo bank computers, and through them to the entire U.S. banking system" because of Lippo's relationship to the Worthen Bank in Arkansas and to First Union, one of the largest banks in the American Southeast." The Worthen Bank, co-owned by Lippo Group and Stephens, Inc. of Little Rock Arkansas was bought out by NationsBank (now Bank of America). Another direct link with Bowles and the Lippo-connected banks, First Union and NationsBank, is Bowles' company Carousel Capital Company, LLC, in Charlotte. And from the Carousel website: "[Carousel has] close working relationships with Bank of America [was NationsBank in Charlotte ] and First Union [of Charlotte] and an affiliation with Forstmann Little & Co." [Emphasis added.] In January 1996, just a few weeks after leaving his second Clinton administration job as White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Mr. Bowles founded Carousel Capital, a merchant banking firm that is focused on acquiring middle market companies in the southeastern United States. Hmm, that was certainly quick - and "middle market" sounds an awful lot like some of the SBA work he was doing... >From the Carousel website: "Charlotte, N.C., January 6, 1999 -- Carousel Capital today announced the return of firm co-founder and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles as a general partner." " Carousel Capital is one of the largest merchant banks in the Southeast, with over $160 million in equity commitments. The firm focuses on acquiring Southeast-based middle market companies." "Carousel investors include Bank of America [was NationsBank] and First Union...". [Emphasis added.] Regarding the campaign finance controversy, the New York Times on 04/14/97 reports: "Morris [Clinton/Gore strategist], in an interview, said that he was told at the time that 'we will have to go into debt to do this.' Another participant, describing the Democratic committee as 'chronically' short of money, said that it had to borrow about $8 million in the fall of 1995 to pay for the ads. The loans from NationsBank [now Bank of America], based in Charlotte, N.C., are reflected in the committee's financial statements." It appears that Bowles also had some direct influence on the illegal presidential campaign. Was anyone in this corrupt administration tending to the bu siness for which they were being paid? [Emphasis added.] So there you have Bowles, integrally entwined with NationsBank which loaned the DNC the bail out money for the corrupt campaign, the same bank that bought out the infamous Lippo-connected Worthen Bank of Little Rock. You have Bowles becoming acquainted with the Lippo-controlling Riady family in 1992. You also have him entwined with the Lippo-connected First Union through the dealings with his company Bowles Hollowell Conner. You now have him on the board of directors of First Union. You have both NationsBank [Bank of America] and First Union investing in Bowles' new company, Carousel. And, last but not least, you know that Bowles and McLarty obtained the work-free pay for Hubbell in the amount of $100,000 from Lippo. Convoluted? A bit - but a few more dots connected, nonetheless... John Podesta Executive Secretary and Assistant to the President (January 1993-July 1995) White House Deputy Chief of Staff (December 1996-November 1998) White House Chief of Staff (November 1998-Present) John Podesta is not a prominent figure in the mainstream media - a fact that demands questioning on its own. In fact, after digging through thousands of newspaper articles, it is quite obvious that there are only a handful of real reporters in this country. Most others have simply mastered the art of cut-and-paste, and little else. Thanks to the relentless pursuit of the truth through the Freedom of Information Act by Charles Smith of Softwar and Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, the public is finally beginning to get a glimpse of the true corruption in the Clinton administration. Much of the information in this section is taken from Mr. Smith's work. The American people owe them a debt of gratitude. Podesta is another Clinton crony. He worked with Clinton on a Senate campaign in 1970 and with Berger and Clinton on the 1972 McGovern campaign. Podesta is described as a traditionally liberal veteran Democratic operative with a tear-jerker past he drones on about like Clinton with his "town called Hope" - for Podesta it is his family's immigrant, working-class roots. In a recent statement he speaks of how proud his parents would have been of their highly successful son. Well, we'll just see about that... The story of John Podesta gives new meaning to the phrase "conflict of interest". Before joining the Administration, he was President and General Counsel of Podesta Associates, Inc., a powerful Washington, D.C., lobbying firm. He is now a consultant to the firm, while his brother Tony runs it. John Podesta was employed at the White House and charged with regulatory policy, including super-computer and encryption policy and export restrictions - the same policies for which his brother, Tony Podesta, was engaged in lobbying the White House and the rest of the Government. As Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary until July 1995, Podesta managed the paper flow to and from the President, including coordination of White House Senior Staff advice on presidential decision memoranda and approval on all Presidential documents. (That would include the corrupt/illegal Presidential Decision Directives and Executive Orders.) As mentioned in the Panetta section: From Judicial Watch, Podesta and Panetta were involved in the planning and implementation of the illegal taxpayer financed foreign trade missions used for DNC fundraising. There is also strong evidence that in the spring of 1995, Panetta and then-Deputy White House Chief of Staff, John Podesta were involved in the obstruction of justice in regard to an investigation into then-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's 'allegedly' illegal taxpayer financed trade missions. Through July of 1995 Podesta participated with both McLarty and Panetta in their corrupt activities outlined earlier. In July 1995, the same month that Panetta learned of the espionage, Podesta 'retired' from the White House to rejoin his lobbying firm Podesta Associates. The law prohibits former employees from lobbying on matters they worked on while in government. and prohibits them from lobbying for a period of one year after they have left service. But, oh well, it's the Clinton administration... As could be expected, Podesta left his White House job in good hands. His replacement, Todd Stern, was Vice President of Podesta's lobbying firm Podesta Associates. (Stern is/was also with the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, with offices in Beijing and Hong Kong, of course). Although Podesta was 'absent' from official duties at the White House during most of the illegal election campaign, he did manage to have Podesta Associates present for some White House fundraising coffees. In December 1996 Chief of Staff Bowles hired Podesta back as his deputy. And then in February 1997, Beverly Barnes, from Podesta Associates, was hired as senior advisor to then-White House Chief of Staff, Erskine Bowles. Podesta Associates later bought Ricchetti and Associates, owned by Podesta's new Deputy Steve Ricchetti. So now the brothers of White House officials, Ricchetti and Podesta, are working together at Podesta Associates to lobby the White House, Congress and federal regulators. Podesta, Ricchetti, Sterns and Barnes - a cozy little Podesta Associates lobbying group on the taxpayer dole at the White House - reduces the skill level required for lobbying to about nil. Throughout his stint in the White House, Podesta was known as the 'top scandal troubleshooter' (the Associated Press referred to him as the 'point man' for the Clinton administration's scandals) and took on damage control responsibilities for such controversies as Whitewater, the White House travel office firings, the Democratic fund-raising controversy and Lewinsky - to name only a few. This 'job', as you will see, is harmless when compared to Podesta's other 'activities'. Podesta even outdid his boss, McLarty, when it came to memory lapses while testifying before Congress - over 250. Let's see why... The website of the powerful D.C. lobbying firm, Podesta Associates, leaves no doubt why little brother John worked his way into White House, not to mention the other Podesta employees they have positioned there: "Our principals and associates come from careers in Congress, the White House, federal agencies, national presidential and other political campaigns, and private industry." And, big brother, "Anthony T. Podesta, chairman, provides his clients with unparalleled legislative, public relations and campaign management expertise, as well as connections throughout Congress and the Administration and long-standing ties to the public interest community. Tony is the co-founder of the firm that National Journal calls 'the lobbying shop that companies from Silicon Valley to Cambridge, MA, hire when they need help in Washington.'" In December 1998 they wrote: "Ten years ago the power matchmaker foresaw that Silicon Valley and Washington would need each other. Podesta appears to be the ideal matchmaker for any high tech company needing to do business on Capitol Hill, in the White House, or wherever regulation, trade, and government contracts are on the table. And these days that's just about everywhere." "Since 1988, we have provided our clients with superior strategic advice and access, combined with a creativity that is unique in Washington. Our Administration and Capitol Hill connections make us one of the city's most effective government relations firms." The slogan of Podesta Associates: "You have a future in Washington. We can help you seize it." There can be no question about the relevance of Podesta Associates' employees now strategically placed in top White House 'jobs' - John Podesta (White House Chief of Staff), Todd Stern (Executive Secretary and Assistant to the President), Steve Ricchetti (Deputy White House Chief of Staff) and Karen Barnes (Senior Advisor to the White House Chief of Staff). Let's see how this influence peddling works... Podesta and 'Computer-Gate': Remember: "John Podesta was employed at the White House and charged with regulatory policy, including super-computer and encryption policy and export restrictions - the same policies for which his brother, Tony Podesta, was engaged in lobbying the White House and the rest of the Government." And "Podesta is working as a consultant for Podesta Associates." The laws state that White House advisors are prohibited from working on matters in which they have a direct financial interest. This law also prohibits them from lobbying on matters they worked on while in government and prohibits them from lobbying for a period of one year after they have left service. Podesta served as a senior policy advisor on regulatory policy during the period 1994- July 1995 and since 1993 he had been charged with the Clinton administration oversight on super-computers and encryption policy (computer policy, such as export restrictions). In 1994, Podesta Associates represented a consortium of U.S. computer companies, the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) that was interested in computer and encryption exports. 'Coincidentally', brother Tony worked miracles for CSPP. >From Softwar: "By April 1994, Ken Kay left the employ of Preston Gates and took a new position at Podesta Associates, the powerful lobby firm owned by Tony Podesta, brother of White House advisor John Podesta. Kay, of course, took his CSPP clients with him by retaining his executive directorship of the consortium. The shift to Podesta Associates was quickly felt by the CSPP members and the PLA. In August, 1994, CSPP members IBM, Cray and Tandem were invited [suddenly authorized] to participate on a Brown trade trip to China. [In 1994, John Podesta was also in charge of Clinton computer technology export policies such as high speed systems and encryption.] While on the trip, CSPP member Tandem sold over $100 million in computers to PLA-owned Great Wall Industries, manufacturer of the Chinese Army nuclear tipped missiles- okayed by the Clinton administration for the "strategic partner" Communist China." Also from Softwar's Freedom of Information Act search: "More alarming for the White House is another 1994 computer security document found in the files of former Deputy Attorney General Webster Hubbell. The Hubbell document describes a secret 1994 White House meeting where 'Podesta legislation' was one of several computer industry topics. The Hubbell document clearly links the former Whitewater partner and John Podesta in secret computer export policy." While at the White House, John Podesta openly met with Commerce officials. On June 6, 1995, Tony Podesta had a consortium of top U.S. computer CEOs attend secret meetings inside the White House with Commerce Department officials. It is illegal for the Commerce Department to have secret meetings with special interests, lobbyists and industry behind closed doors. The Commerce Dept. subsequently engaged in a cover-up of the secret meetings with the CSPP and Podesta Associates employees at the White House. At that time CSPP Director and DNC donor Ken Kay was attending the secret meetings while working for registered foreign agents Tony Podesta and Podesta Associates - a clear conflict of interest. The 'guest list' included some of the most rich and powerful on the U.S. computer industry DNC donor lists. The meetings were on computer hardware and software exports to China and Russia. The meetings occurred just before Clinton changed super-computer policy. Within weeks, the Russian and Chinese weapons labs were buying computer power for nuclear weapons research that now surpasses the U.S. Defense Dept. Softwar: "In 1996, two of the Podesta companies, IBM and Silicon Graphics, sold super-computers (under the guise of "commercial" sales) directly to Russian nuclear weapons labs Arzamas-16 and Chelyabinsk-70 under so-called "commercial" contracts. IBM has since settled for a fine of $8 million on the $7.5 million dollar sale to Arzamas-16. Silicon Graphics, however, has not been charged. In 1996, John Podesta was also working for his brother Tony as a lobbyist for Podesta Associates. Thus, John certainly had a large paycheck tied to his brother's success for IBM and Silicon Graphics." Criminal activity? The 'late' Secretary of Commerce Brown said that Clinton advisers John Podesta and Leon Panetta ordered him to cover-up the high tech China exports by destroying evidence. And it never stops. Softwar also obtained documents that show "the Clinton administration approved the export of U.S.-built supercomputers to Communist China in late December 1997 even though Chinese officials were unwilling to allow on-site inspections of the delivery venue in order to satisfy a U.S. law. But Commerce officials weren't going to let this little detail stand in the way of a supercomputer deal worth millions to Digital Equipment Corp., a U.S. company whose lobbyist was Anthony Podesta." Podesta and the Clipper Project: The Clipper project involved special telephones developed by AT&T which became of great interest to the Clinton administration in their ongoing effort to invade the privacy of 'the American people'. Their plan involved refitting the phones with a new chip called "Clipper," which would permit the government to tap the phones easily once they found their way back into the hands of American consumers. This project was one of the items of interest to 'alleged' spy John Huang of Lippo and the Commerce Department who requested classified documents and sat in on briefings about a subject that he could not have understood. A subject, no doubt, understood by those on the receiving end of his faxing to Lippo from the Stephens office. Soon to be convicted criminal, Webster Hubbell, orchestrated this plot from the Justice Department, but with Podesta Associates lobbying for AT&T, you have one guess who was in the inner circle of the Clipper project! White House Executive Secretary, little brother John, of course. Podesta and the 'Openness project' (freely translated The Demise of National Security): According to the Associated Press 10/20/98: John Podesta "is currently a Member of the United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy." >From the Center for Security Policy 4/26/99: "On 17 April 1995, President Clinton lent his authority to an "openness" initiative championed by Mrs. O'Leary, the current White House Chief of Staff, John Podesta, and then-NSC staffer Morton Halperin with his signature of Executive Order 12958. This order called for the automatic declassification by 17 April 2000 of all documents containing historical information that are 25 years or older." "The practical effect of Executive Order 12958, however, has been greatly to abbreviate the time and necessarily to diminish the care with which classified documents are scrutinized prior to their release to the public." Senators became concerned about the wholesale declassification of secret documents, and felt that "officials were not being given the time or resources to declassify sensitive documents on a page-by-page basis. Instead, it had to be done by the box, if not by the shelf. Mr. Podesta, apparently infuriated at any interference with the declassification initiative, instructed Secretary Richardson to have Ms. Gottemoeller reprimand a senior DOE bureaucrat, Joseph Mahaley, for encouraging Congress to intervene." Podesta was referred to in the Washington Times on 4/27/99 as a "declassification-devotee" and said "Under such pressure, the Administration wound up engaging in the wholesale declassification of papers, including some containing Restricted Data (RD) or Formerly Restricted Data (FRD). Mr. Podesta, apparently infuriated at any interference with the declassification initiative, fought intervention by Congress to safeguard secret documents." (RD and FRD deal with nuclear information.) And from Podesta's speech before the Intelligence Information and Classification Management Conference on November 3, 1998: I want "to talk to you about the Clinton Administration's commitment -- and my own personal commitment -- to openness in government." "In fiscal years 1996 and 1997, agencies declassified more than 400 million pages of historically valuable documents -- 50 percent more in the last two years than in the previous 16 years. The Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) estimates that these 400 million pages constitute about a quarter of the total universe of classified pages subject to automatic declassification by April 2000. In other words, we are off to a good start." "Clinton Administration has pursued a policy of government openness -- but we know there is far more work to be done." Isn't that just swell! The anti-nuclear activists like O'Leary and Podesta have left a legacy with their "denuclearization" and "openness" policies that will haunt this country for years to come. Their "openness" initiatives contributed to the circumstances under which the penetration of U.S. nuclear facilities by Communist China, among others, has occurred during the present administration. Well there you have it - another Clinton appointee who, with an honest Justice Department, would be in a world of hurt. The son of "an immigrant working-class family" who is so vocal about how proud his parents would be of him. Guess that depends upon where they immigrated from and where there allegiances were... Summary This team of four highly questionable White House Chiefs of Staff, each one with a vested interest in not rocking the Communist boat, enabled the seamless transition of a corrupt governor to a corrupt president. It is interesting to note the connection between these four men. In their varying capacities in the administration, they seemed to always team up in twos or threes on a variety of corrupt activities. Without the highly unusual coordination of their efforts, all the corrupt acts of the President and his appointees would not have been covered up, the espionage would have been reported in a timely fashion to prevent further damage, the illegal campaign contributions would not have elected this corrupt and treasonous president to a second term, the Communist military would not have been given/sold the technology to threaten us with nuclear disaster, the Chinese Communists would not have pushed us into a third-world negotiating position, and numerous other 'accomplishments' of the Clinton/Gore administration would have been exposed. But it all did happen and America is in real trouble. The Judicial system has been turned into a subject of ridicule, with all criminal activity by the Clintons and their appointees going unpunished - crimes that would strip average individuals of all their worldly possessions and land them in jail. It's people like Klayman, Smith and a few exceptional members of Congress who, with their perseverance, may be able to repair some of the damage that has been done. When Panetta left in January 1997, Sandy Berger, an equally questionable pro-Communist crony, became National Security Advisor, and the 'mantle' was gradually passed to him. The transition was smooth, as McLarty and Bowles continued to work together until July 1998. The fate of the executive branch and national security is now in the hands of communist sympathizers and lobbyists, Berger and Podesta. How lucky can we get! What a team to take us through the Y2K crisis, Communist threats and whatever else there is in store for us before they hose out the White House and send Clinton and his appointees/nominees packing. This summary was prepared by Gretchen Glass 9/12/99. Please feel free to post and/or distribute this document at your 'pleasure', with appropriate credit given. Posted by Gretchen=Bink ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Again, a special thanks to Alamo-Girl, Jolly, the Robinsons and all FR Posters for the wealth of articles they have provided for research! 1 Posted on 09/12/1999 16:54:54 PDT by Bink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [ Reply | Top | Last ] ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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