Follow the Money: Kerry to Look Into International Criminal Enterprises
By Susie Madrak Saturday May 30, 2009 4:00pmKerry is a great person to be handling this, with his background in the BCCI investigation. Can't wait to see what he digs up!
May 29 (Bloomberg) -- John Kerry has never run for sheriff. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he is starting to act like one, and the world is his jurisdiction.
The Massachusetts Democrat is wielding his gavel with an investigative zeal, and plans to take on Iran’s nuclear program, gun-running on the Mexican border, terrorism, narcotics and human trafficking, all through the prism of money laundering. He has hired a former investigative reporter, an ex-CIA agent and a one-time managing director of Bear Stearns Cos. LLC to help him.
“There are lots of big pieces out there that depend on money moving,” he said in an interview in his office in the Senate, where he is serving his 24th year.
Kerry, who was a prosecutor and attorney in Massachusetts before starting his political career in 1982, said the lack of congressional oversight during the Bush administration left behind a target-rich environment for his panel. The Treasury Department “has its hands full” and is “inadequately resourced” to pursue these inquiries, he said.
“For the last eight years we’ve had an administration that has done its utmost to protect, hide, obfuscate, neglect, void, simply not even care about these issues,” said Kerry, 65.
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Yes Kerry is ideal for this. He would never quit before he reached the finish line.
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I recall seeing Robert Gates testifying and he jokingly referred to B.C.C.I. as, "The Bank of Crooks and Criminals International".
I also recall a Committee Hearing I believe that was related to The October Surprise. A line of questioning went into gun running and drugs and all the Republicans walked out.
The CSPAN cameras were still running and Sen. John Kerry shook his head and said, "Guns for drugs. It's a matter of record."
I'd like to be optimistic but this sounds like more revolving door politics. Same faces, zero results.
Kerry already stated he doesn't want to do anything in conflict with Obama's policies. WTF? What if the things Kerry is investigating are still going on with Obama? Did he just suggest his reports outcome may vary on whose feathers it may ruffle?
Kerry did such a great job with BCCI and Iran-Contra! So many Bush-criminals went to prison! The truth was exposed!
Oh wait, nothing actually happened. I forgot the criminals were both the Republicans and Kerry's Democratic friends.
Bill Clinton would (unfortunately) be in prison today with Bush Sr (fortunately) for their roles in Iran-Contra, BCCI and the related crimes at Mena.
Whitewater was actually about Clinton stealing the CIA's money which it was laundering through the Arkansas banking system in the 80s. Clinton was loaning the money out to his friends via the Arkansas Development Corporation.
http://www.wethepeople.la/indict.htm Maybe he couldn't help it that GH Bush pardoned his coconspiritors on christmas eve.A few went to jail also
Kerry knows he is messing with dangerous serpents
... takes one to know one. He is an insider --- it's a safe bet he won't be turning over the wrong rocks.
Hell hath no fury like a Bush shorn. Whitewater was about punishing Clinton for double-crossing Poppi. The "dope from Hope" was not supposed to win the election in '92. (In 2004, Kerry showed us how to run a successful non-campaign --- lackadaisically and with complete non-chalance.)
Clinton's failure to take a dive explains Bush's mounting outrage as the campaign progressed, as well as the immediate and disproportionate outpouring of Republican angst afterwards, followed by the long, very personal smear campaign --- of someone who, judging by his deeds in office, was really a mainstream Republican in disguise (balanced budget, advancement of the police state, continuation of corporatist foreign policy, further implementation of imperial presidency). You will notice, too, that Clinton and Bush pal around quite a lot these days. Politics is like pro wrestling: the drama is more apparent than real.
Kerry is a great person to handle this....
1. Earned a degree in Manufacturing Opinion and Consent from Ivory Tower University
2. Married a woman who has more money than God, literally.
3. Skull and Bones!! Yes Skull and Bones!!
4. While 70% of Americans said they were ready for single payer national health care, Kerry said there was no political support for it. None.
5. Stood at the casket of Ronald Reagan and saluted the 2nd worst President in our history as if he were a venerated Saint!
6. Voted for the Wars
7. Voted for NAFTA
8. Voted for the Telecom Bill of 1996
9. Voted for the Patriot Act
10. Has taken more corporate money than any politician extent
He is a fox with the keys to every hen house in the country!
Wake up lil' Susie
Dream!
Trouble's Back in Town
Recently fell in love with this very old country diddy. Lyrics are on topic.
Let's have another "investigation" and send some more low-level political operatives to jail for thirty days!!
SCORE!!!
oh, ****
I'm not sure if they are willing to call it an investigation. At this stage, it is a "look into".
If I were Bush/Cheney I'd be calling my Paraguay Nazi pals quick.
Back in '04 the rightwingers grew to hate Sen. Kerry simply because he dared to be the Democrat nominee aginst their precious Shrub. For that they smeared him mercilessly. Now he's gonna give them a real reason to hate him.
Godspeed, Sen. Kerry!
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he'll be looking at the Bush family... one of the biggest international criminal enterprises out there.
He paid out more than he took in. Where'd it come from?
I sure hope he stays away from small planes.
Kerry fought for us in the 60's, saved us from terrorist in the 80's, but couldn't put two words together against a dimwit. He either deserved or needed to lose that election.
I'll never forgive him for not uttering the phrase, "9/11 happened on George W. Bush's watch."
All he had to do was repeat that phrase over and over, and he would have won. They went after his strength--his war record--and he should have gone after their "strength"--security.
You can start right here..
on this very website, it will show you how the United States was fooled by the "boogie man".
http://www.leadingtowar.com/mechanism_war_man...
just
"follow the money"
$$ka-ching$$
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