FBI investigating Prince Bandar so he hires former FBI director Freeh and Stanley Sporkin

[seemslikeadream]

While the BAE investigation apparently ran aground in Britain, it has gained enough interest in the United States to cause some of those in the middle of it to secure high-profile legal advisers. Prince Bandar, a confidant of the Bush family, recently retained the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director Louis J. Freeh, as well as one of the fathers of the F.C.P.A., the retired federal judge Stanley Sporkin, to represent him.


http://www.whereisthemoney.org/hotseat/stanleysporkin.htm
UnAnswered Questions for Stanley Sporkin






http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2346218

[loves_dulcinea]

1. it must be

nice to be a billionaire, then you can buy the fbi for your very own.

[blm]

3. This is EXACTLY WHY IranContra, BCCI and CIA drugrunning needed full revelations

on all the outstanding matters throughout the 90s.

This entire gang should've been fully exposed when they were at their weakest.

That they all became stronger and more dominant a factor in the 90s is America's shame and now our curse.

[seemslikeadream]

4. Stanley Sporkin, IranContra

Question #1: Did you draft the DOJ-CIA Iran-Contra Memorandum of Understanding?

http://www.whereisthemoney.org/hotseat/stanleysporkin.htm

[seemslikeadream]

6. Former Judge Sporkin’s history of involvement in cover-ups,

http://bigoil.gnn.tv/blogs/18166/New_BP_U_S_Ombudsman_Judge_Sporkin


Former Judge Sporkin’s history of involvement in cover-ups, from attempted retroactive legalization of criminality at the CIA to the participation in HUD mortgage fraud cover-up, makes him vastly unqualified OR the perfect man for BP’s ombudsman, depending on your point of view and whose interest he is supposed to serve. I know I would think twice before calling a former CIA “spook” with any confidential concerns.

BP has been beset by mounting criticisms of its’ U.S. operations in recent months. The company’s announcement that it had hired Former Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin to act as U.S. independent ombudsman to “receive, investigate and help resolve concerns and issues raised by employees and contractors”, was interesting given some of the Judge’s past history which is not usually highlighted in the mainstream news. BP employees deserve some context on their new ombudsman before taking up any confidential issues of consequence with him. The following details some of Sporkin’s actions when powerful interests needed protecting.

Judge Sporkin was CIA General Counsel during the Iran-Contra period. He negotiated the CIA’s now infamous 1982 Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Justice that permitted it to not report narcotics trafficking by CIA assets. The Memorandum of Understanding between the CIA and DOJ was published in 1998 as part of a declassified two volume report by the CIA Inspector General responding to allegations regarding CIA complicity in narcotics trafficking. The MOU shows that Inspector General Sporkin and CIA Director Casey succeeded in getting United States Attorney General Williams to change the CIA’s legal responsibilities so that there was “no formal requirement regarding the reporting of narcotics violations.” This MOU, which was rescinded in 1995, provided the legal cover the CIA needed to proceed with it’s involvement with the Contras Rebels and drug trafficking in South America. View Crack-the-CIA, a Sundance Film Festival Award winning short film for a good introduction and overview of CIA involvement in drug trafficking. This Dateline NBC segment on CIA drug trafficking is also informative.

[blm]

7. Isn't it amazing how they always connect to the same network over and over again?

Actually, not so amazing - since it is all part of one big effing Picture that most Americans can't see because blowjobs and abortion politics conveniently obscure the REAL issue of global fascism replacing democracy.

[DCKit]

25. Don't forget the HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA!!! n/t

[Horse with no Name]

10. Clinton had the power to stop this pox on all of us

and he didn't.

[Didereaux]

11. I agree Janet Reno and Louis Freeh, I cannot forgive nor understand Clinton keeping those two!

[blm]

12. It was Bill's doings. He is the one who did the sweeping. Even Marc Rich was a named

figure in both IranContra and BCCI. You didn't fall for the wealthy tax evader routine, did you? Clinton pardoned ANOTHER operative for Poppy Bush.

Heck - just IranContra's full revelations alone should have nailed the BushInc coffins down shut.

http://consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html

[Mnemosyne]

2. Bandar Bush?!

Say it ain't so! And Freeh? No surprise there.

I don't even understand why he bothered to get a lawyer, he's *'s fucking family and it won't see the light of day once Poppy deals with it.

[Disturbed]

5. Is this the same person that was shown the Top Secret Plans

for the Illegal Invasion of Iraq?

[Mnemosyne]

8. I believe you are correct. Hell, I know know you are! :) n/t

[KansDem]

20. Hell, he was shown the plans *before* Colin Powell!

Bandar Bush was shown the secret plans for the invasion of Iraq before the US Secretary of State! :grr:

Who's running this country?

[Horse with no Name]

9. Seems like there was a time in this country

that it might have been considered a conflict of interest...

[blm]

13. The entire last 3 decades has been a conflict of interest. Hell - make it 4.

.

[leveymg]

14. There was a time it might have been considered TREASON

But, the American Fifth Column that financed the rise of Fascism and Nazism was given a pass soon after Pearl Harbor. Then, under cover of war, the Dulles Bros. essentially took control over the most sensitive parts of U.S. intelligence and in the process the world's black banking operations. The sheer enormity, chaos, and secrecy of World War Two, the Cold War, and the GWOT that followed provided ample cover for continued organized rip-offs of government treasuries, worldwide.

BCCI, the S&L scandal, Iran-Contra, the HUD scandal, the Saudi-BAE slush funds (Yamamah), and the current mortgage crisis all follow the same pattern.

[blm]

18. They follow the same pattern because they are all part of the same story -

a story that continues unchecked by officials who are supposed to have been representing us.

And those that did got smeared for their efforts - and were undermined by the powerful elite in their own party.

[BornagainDUer]

24. Well said. That is why Clinton letting them go bugs the hell out of me.

Something is definitely rotten in both parties.

[blm]

26. The fascist agenda has its feet in both parties - it is our job to weaken the hold

in the Dem party because the GOP is too far gone. They followed the Bushes all the way down that road - and we have to prevent our party from doing the same behind the Clintons.

[wildbilln864]

15. K&R!

These criminals can get away with anything it seems.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. When is Louis Freeh going to be investigated?

[blm]

27. Why do you think they HAD to steal 2004? The ONLY way they'll get exposed is when

a truly anti-corruption, open government Democrat is in the oval office.


http://consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html

[seafan]

17. Apparently, Louis Freeh is a good buddy of new AG Mukasey. Now THAT is convenient for Bandar.

Marcy Wheeler at TheNextHurrah has another little interesting fact about Louis Freeh, as he has just been hired by Bandar Bush bin Sultan as his defense attorney in the BAE bribery investigation.


November 24, 2007

The news is eye-popping (to me, at least) for more than just Freeh's former role as the head of the FBI. You see, Freeh is a very good buddy of our new AG, Michael Mukasey, showing up at his confirmation hearings.

Something in the front row of the spectator’s gallery kept catching my eye as I watched the stock footage of the Mukasey confirmation hearings being played over and over on Friday–I kept thinking isn’t that Louis Freeh in the front row? So, on Saturday Morning I did a little googling and lo and behold! — it WAS Louis!

How curious!

What would Louis Freeh be doing at that hearing? Hmmmm?

And his swearing-in ceremony.

Dignitaries in attendance included Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and former attorneys general John Ashcroft and Dick Thornburgh. Also seated near the front were FBI Director Robert Mueller and ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh, a former Southern District of New York judge and friend of Mukasey's.

I'd say recent events have taken a turn in Bandar's favor, wouldn't you? How convenient that the newly-installed top law enforcement officer in this country happens to be great buddies with your lawyer.

.....

(See TheNextHurrah link for multiple embedded links to this story.)



Once again, we have Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer to repudiate for their part in this entire Mukasey debacle.

[blm]

21. Mueller and Thornburgh were also involved in covering up BCCI. Interesting how

they manage to pop up. William Weld was a fixer then, too. In Bill's book he mentions that he wanted to endorse Weld in 96 senate race - but he ended up endorsing the Democrat - John Kerry. You know, the guy who worked 6 years to UNCOVER IranContra and BCCI. Sworn enemy of all those involved in BCCI - Bushes, House of Saud, Dubai, Bin Ladens, Jackson Stephens, WalMart, AQ Khan, the list can go on for days.

Wonder why Bill wanted Weld in the senate instead of Kerry in 96?

[Supersedeas]

19. the media would rather cover Holloway

[robertpaulsen]

22. Recommended and bookmarked!

Good keeper for the Judas files. Gee, with the Stanley in the ballgame, I wonder when Ollie is coming to bat?

[BornagainDUer]

23. K&R