- Dallas attorney Robert Jordan was confirmed Wednesday
by the United States Senate to serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
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- Jordan has no diplomatic experience. However, his
connections
leave no doubt as to why he was named to the post. He defended George W.
Bush in a probe of insider trading allegations in 1990. The allegations
involved the sale by Bush of 60% of his Harken Energy Corp. stocks two
months before a 25% drop in the stock's price. According to a 7 Sep 2000
article by the Associated Press, "At the time of the investigation,
Bush's father was president of the United States and the SEC was run by
one of his biggest political supporters, Richard Breeden. The SEC's
then-general
counsel, James R. Doty, was another staunch presidential supporter who
as a private attorney was George W. Bush's lawyer when he purchased his
share of the Texas Rangers baseball team."
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- This is not Jordan's only connection to the Bush family.
Jordan is a corporate lawyer in the Dallas office of Houston-based Baker
Botts. Baker Botts has an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The client list
at Baker Botts includes "more than half of the Fortune 100
companies".
The client list also includes The Carlyle Group. On the board of directors
for Carlyle is former President George Herbert Walker Bush.
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- James A. Baker III is the current Baker in Baker Botts.
Baker was Secretary of State under the first President Bush. He is
currently
senior counsel to The Carlyle Group. Baker was a classmate of Donald H.
Rumsfeld at Yale University. Rumsfeld, the current Secretary of Defense,
was the roommate of Frank C. Carlucci at Yale.
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- Carlucci, who was head of the National Security Counsel
under President Ronald Reagan, is currently chairman of The Carlyle
Group.
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- The current President Bush was a director of Caterair
during the years 1990-1994. Caterair is owned by The Carlyle Group.
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- The board of directors of The Carlyle Group also
includes:
former Phillipines President Fidel V. Ramos, former director of the U.S.
Office of Management & Budget Richard Darman, former Assistant to the
President (Bush I) Robert Grady, the Prime Minister of South Korea, Park
Tae Joon, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt, former Prime Minister of Great
Britain John Major, former general director of the World Health
Organization
Michael Orloff, retired U.S. Army General J. H. Binford Peay, former
president
of Deutsche Bundesbank Karl Otto Pohl, and former chairman of the Joint
Chief's of Staff John Shalikashvili.
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- Two-thirds of Carlyle's holding are in defense and
telecommunications
companies.
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- At leaset $2 million of Carlyle funding has come from
the bin Laden family of Saudi Arabia.
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