under the guise of "humanitarian" reasons ...
http://www.ahtc.org/ whose Advisory Council includes:
Carla Hills ... in 2000, as a Smirk Pioneer, she pledged to raise $100,000; Ford's Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (no relevant experience); from 1974-75, she was Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Poppy Bu$h's US Trade Representative; serves on the Board of Directors on such companies as Maurice Greenberg's (Chair of the Nixon Center) American International Group aka AIG, currently under investigation by Eliot Spitzer; is or has been Director of Time Warner Inc., ChevronTexaco Corporation, Lucent Technologies Inc.; Vice Chair of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the U.S.-China Business Council, and the Inter-American Dialogue; Trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute of International Economics; Member of the Board of the Asia Society; and a Member of the Trilateral Commission; in the 1980s a Chevron oil tanker was named after her (sound familiar?); and, "CEO" of her own "international consultant" company, etc.
Other AHTC Advisors (including the Carlyle Group):
G. Allen Andreas
Chairman and CEO
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Phil Baum, Executive Director
American Jewish Congress
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. (also involved with James Baker, Kissinger,etc. on the Caspian Sea Oil Basin
US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce
http://www.usacc.org Former Treasury Secretary, President Clinton Former U.S. Senator, Texas
Reginald K. Brack, Jr.
Chairman Emeritus, Time Inc.
Melinda Bush
Hospitality Resources Worldwide
Dr. Joan Brown Campbell
Director of Religion, Chautauqua Institution
Former General Secretary, National Council of Churches
Frank C. Carlucci
Chairman,
The Carlyle Group Former NSC Chief, President Reagan
A.W. Clausen
Chairman and CEO (retired), BankAmerica Corporation,
Former President World Bank
Francis Ford Coppola
Producer / Director
Dr. Robert Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Christ of the USA
Richard E. Feinberg
Director, APEC Study Center University of California, San Diego Former NSC Chief for Latin America, President Clinton
Craig L. Fuller
Former Chief of Staff, Vice President Bush
Sam M. Gibbons
Former 34-year Florida Congressman,
Chairman, Ways and Means Committee
Larry Gold, PhD
Chairman and CEO
SomaLogic, Inc.
Mark O. Hatfield
Former U.S. Senator, Oregon
Grazell Howard
Coalition of 100 Black Women
Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick,
Stated Clerk Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Bob Odom Commissioner
Louisiana Department of Agriculture
George Sturgis Pillsbury
Chairman, Sargent Management Company
A.J. Pete Reixach, Director
Port of Freeport, Texas, Former President, Gulf Coast Ports Association
Julius B. Richmond, M.D.
Professor of Health Policy
Harvard Medical School Former U.S. Surgeon General
Dennis Rivera, President
1199, National Health & Human Service Employees Union
David Rockefeller, Chairman
Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc. Trust
Governor Mark Sanford
South Carolina (R)
James Rodney Schlesinger
Senior Advisor Lehman Brothers
Former CIA Director, President Nixon
Defense Secretary, President Ford
Kurt L. Schmoke, Former Mayor Baltimore, Maryland
General John J. Sheehan (retired)
Former Supreme Allied
Commander, Atlantic (NATO)
Sargent Shriver, Chairman of the Board Special Olympics International
Oliver Stone
Producer / Director
Paul A. Volcker, Former Chairman
Federal Reserve Board
Malcolm Wallop
Former U.S. Senator, Wyoming
John Whitehead, Chairman
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Former Deputy Secretary of State
Jim Winkler
General Secretary
United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society