(I finally finished a book that has been on my "to-read" list for a couple of years now, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI by Jonathan Beatty and S.C. Gwynne. I highly recommend picking up a copy, because the information in the book is still not generally known, particularly the ways in which intelligence agencies, terrorists, and drug traffickers all belly up to the same bank to launder their money. As time rolls on, I suspect that we will see evidence that a BCCI paradigm was part of 9/11, including the use of a Black Network that is international in nature, and staffed by some very ruthless and pathological individuals. Octopus-like in effect, designed to cover tracks and simultaneously produce nationalist red-herrings that keep people treading water with their research, but not really getting anywhere... On that note, please check out this great blog entry over at DemocraticUnderground by DU user, leveymg... -rep.)

PARTNERS IN CRIME: The Clintons, the Bushes, and BCCI

Posted by leveymg - Mon Feb 11th 2008, 01:39 PM

Part 1: How the Presidency Became a Threat to National Security

You may have heard that it takes a Clinton to punish a Bush for crimes of state. Not likely. The simple, undeniable fact is that Bill Clinton was presented the opportunity to prosecute former Bush Administration officials when he took office in 1993, but he refused to fully pursue his predecessors in the Oval Office who had been responsible for the illegal Iran-Contra operation, the S&L rip-off, and the BCCI scandals.

Instead, Clinton’s presidency was tainted by its own intelligence and campaign finance scandals – massive espionage and influence buying operations -- featuring much of the same supporting cast of foreign intelligence agencies, corrupt U.S. middlemen, and international bankers who had been at the center of the Reagan-Bush scandals.

No Clinton era official or those of two earlier Administrations were ever fully prosecuted and jailed for their role in crimes involving the CIA and BCCI, or for related crimes that have afflicted the Bush 41 and Clinton presidencies. Investigations have been repeatedly sidetracked, ignored, or when prosecutions actually occurred, top officials have been pardoned. These crimes, along with new and more lethal variations on them, carried over into the Bush 43 Administration.

Now, we are being asked to believe that Hillary Clinton is the best choice among Democratic candidates to clean house and punish the many and varied crimes of state committed by Bush-Cheney. Not bloody likely...

Continued...
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/leveymg/347