Neil Bush has his fingers in Iraq too

[donsu]

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1069493552660

Consultant on Iraq contracts employed president's brother

Neil Bush, a younger brother of US President George W. Bush, has had a $60,000-a-year employment contract with a top adviser to a Washington-based consulting firm set up this year to help companies secure contracts in Iraq.

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Mr Bush said he was co-chairman of Crest Investment Corporation, a company based in Houston, Texas, that invests in energy and other ventures. For this he received $15,000 every three months for working an average three or four hours a week.

The other co-chairman and principal of Crest is Jamal Daniel, a Syrian-American who is an advisory board member of New Bridge Strategies, a company set up this year by a group of businessmen with close links to the Bush family or administrations. Its chairman is Joe Allbaugh, George W. Bush's campaign director in the 2000 presidential elections.

Other figures at New Bridge include Ed Rogers, its vice-chairman and a senior official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, and Lanny Griffith, with whom he works in the lobby firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers. Lord Charles Powell, adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, is listed as an advisory board member.
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the article goes on to show how they are connected to Ignite, Neil's scam and the Texas Alliance Against Alcohol Abuse farce.

[cosmicdot]

1. It's robbery-in-broad-daylight in America ... then, there's Diligence

link off of New Bridge Strategies ... and, eventual link to The Carlyle Group ...

(( advanced Morning in America ))

Iraq is a profit center ... exploiting a downtrodden people and country ...

... and, Ignite! is a cover/front ... if Neil makes a buck or two from Ignite! ... the real money is sitting and doing nothing while automatic deposits keep the earning coming in ...

Diligence was founded by former members of the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain’s MI5 Intelligence Services. Today, Diligence has the experience and international network of contacts to provide companies with the highest quality commercial information, competitive analysis and due diligence support, even in the most difficult of operating environments.

The company is headquartered in Washington D.C. and has offices in London and Miami. The Diligence team brings together significant experience in international law enforcement, British, U.S and Russian intelligence services, investigative journalism and the legal profession. The company’s leadership includes principals experienced in diplomacy, political assessment and financial analysis. The leadership team includes Richard Burt, former US Ambassador to Germany and Ed Rogers, a former top aide to President George H.W. Bush.

The Diligence team is guided by an influential and experienced Senior Advisory Board, chaired by Judge Webster, former Director of the CIA and the FBI, now a Senior Partner with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP. Other Board members include Lord Powell of Bayswater, former advisor on foreign affairs and defense to Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and Ed Mathias, Managing Director of The Carlyle Group. (I believe John Major is on-board Carlyle as a paid director, too)


http://www.diligencellc.com/

Advisory Board

The Honorable William Webster (Chairman)

former Director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
and Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA); now a Senior Partner
with Milbank, Hadley and Tweed

Lord Powell of Bayswater

former advisor on foreign affairs
and defense to Prime Ministers
Margaret Thatcher and John Major;
now President of the China-Britain
Business Council and chairman of
the trustees of the Oxford University
Business School

Ed Mathias

former Managing Director and
member of management committee,
T. Rowe Price Associates; now
Managing Director of the Carlyle Group

Arnaud de Borchgrave

former chief diplomatic correspondent
for Newsweek magazine and CEO
of United Press International;
now leads the Global Organized
Crime Project at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies

John Dooner

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
McCann-Erickson Worldgroup

Syed Jaffrey

Chairman and CEO of Wingate
Capital SA, Geneva, Switzerland.

Thomas H. Boggs Jr.

Chairman, Executive Committee,
Patton Boggs, LLP.

[realFedUp]

2. kick

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. John Major is the

head of the European wing of the Carlyle Group (or a title to that effect).

Also Lord Charles Powell's brother Jonathan is Tony Blair's Chief of Staff.

(Or am I just being cynical?)

[barbaraann]

3. I'll bet it's more than just his fingers.

Just like his involvement in Asia.

[Ksec]

5. Yea , I wonder if he took his Chinese whores with him? nt