- Former President Bush Works for International
Investment
Firm With Ties To Saudi Arabia
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- Company Had Previously Worked with
Bin Laden Family Conglomerate
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- (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public
interest
law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today
announced that it would be filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
against the State and Defense Departments in order to obtain documents
concerning the Carlyle Group, an international consulting and investment
firm which retains former President George H.W. Bush.
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- The Wall Street Journal reported in September that the
former president, the father of President Bush, worked for the bin Laden
family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group. The senior Bush
had met with the bin Laden family at least twice. (Other top Republicans
are also associated with the Carlyle group, such as former Secretary of
State James A. Baker.) The terrorist leader Osama bin Laden had supposedly
been "disowned" by his family, which runs a multi-billion dollar
business in Saudi Arabia and was a major investor in the senior Bush's
firm. Other reports have questioned whether members of his Saudi family
have truly cut off Osama bin Laden. Osama's sister-in-law, in a recent
interview with ABC News, said that she believed that members of her family
still supported bin Laden.
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- In the wake of Judicial Watch and other criticism of
its ties to the bin Laden family business, the Carlyle Group reportedly
no longer does business with the bin Laden conglomerate. Yet it has also
been reported that the Group has had significant business contacts with
the Saudi Arabian government, which many have criticized for its lack of
diligence in reigning in bin Laden and its tepid support for America's
war against terrorism.
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- And documents recently uncovered through Judicial Watch's
FOIA to the Department of Defense shows that the Carlyle Group has
high-level
access to the U.S. government. The documents include a February 15, 2001
letter on Carlyle Group letterhead to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
from former Defense Secretaries Frank Carlucci and William Perry, both
now with Carlyle Group. The documents also include Secretary Rumsfeld's
April 3 response to Messrs. Carlucci and Perry. The letters seemingly
discuss
the restructuring of the Defense Department. The Carlyle Group is listed
in the documents as Defense Department contractor. Copies of the letters
will be available on the Judicial Watch Internet site at
www.judicialwatch.org.
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- "It is time for former President Bush to leave the
Carlyle Group. The questions raised by his and others involvement with
the Saudi-connected firm can only cause problems for the U.S. war
effort,"
stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman.
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- Documents:
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- Letter from Frank Carlucci and William Perry
of the Carlyle Group to Donald Rumsfeld
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- Letter from Donald Rumsfeld to
Frank Carlucci and William Perry of the Carlyle Group
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