American State of the Union: A Festival of Lies

[stupidicus]

383. yep

the octupus has many tenacles http://www.globalresearch.ca/inside-the-global-banking-intelligence-complex-bcci-operations/21404 alrighty

Jackson Stephens Sr. is a big-money man from Arkansas. A top donor to the Reagan and George H.W. Bush campaigns, he suddenly

switched to Clinton in 1990.

He brought BCCI to US shores in 1979 and helped to launder cocaine profits from CIA drug smuggling in Mena, Arkansas and elsewhere.

Mochtar Riady is the Indonesian billionaire who was a joint investor with Little Rock billionaire Jackson Stephens in Worthen Bank when an investor group that included Jackson Stephens took over First American Bank in Washington, D.C.

Stephens, with the help of Bert Lance and others, brought in BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) to wrest control of the bank from that group, and to put it into the hands of friendlier partners.

The Stephens' software firm Systematics was to become the nation's biggest supplier of back-office banking software, and would eventually work closely with the National Security Agency to facilitate intelligence monitoring of banking transactions.http://www.reddirtreport.com/red-dirt-grit/jackson-stephens-bcci-and-drug-money-laundering

and it's the invisible ones that are the most dangerous

Indictments issued The New York district attorney handed down BCCI indictments last week; the General Accounting Office, the FBI, and the Federal Reserve Board are all conducting investigations. And the Justice Department has also thrown its hat into the ring. Although he says there's enough blame to go around for Democrats and Republicans alike, Kerry is under attack from Republican leadership for turning the BCCI affair into a partisan issue. And Kerry says he's already incurred the wrath of the Bush administration. "Yesterday [Thursday] I got a call from a friend of mine in Washington: 'Word's out on the street, the White House is trying to find out all the dirt on you they can. Confirmation hearings by the Senate Select Intelligence Committee on Bush's nomination of Gates as CIA director, are scheduled to begin begin Sept. 16. By then the congressional investigations into BCCI, which Mr. Gates reportedly referred years ago as the Bank of Crooks and Criminals, will be well underway, and Gates's possible BCCI role will be scrutinized.

http://www.csmonitor.com/1991/0805/05092.html/(page)/3

I keep hoping that sometime before I die that I can vote for Mr or Mrs/Ms Clean in the dem party. ABout the only reason I've ever voted dem for pres since Carter in my youth, is to avoid the greater and lasting damage rightwing SCOTUS appointments can have.