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GEORGE BUSH, BILL CLINTON, KENNETH STARR and THE BLACKMAIL CARDS By Sherman H. Skolnick
There is blackmail occurring these days, some of the worst in the history of this nation. Kenneth Starr, the appointed Independent Counsel, was installed, according to some, as an anti-Clinton administration hatchet-wielder. Others say, despite that, Bill and Hillary are a power-hungry CIA couple, subject to being terminated by corruption and espionage scandals. Others contend George Bush was a CIA heavy hitter, going back at least to 1959, when he formed Zapata Petroleum, with world-wide offices as a CIA/dope operation, trans-shipping dope from offshore drilling rigs beyond the 3-mile jurisdictional limit. {1}.
Cynics contend America would have a happy and prosperous future if these various factions destroyed each other in a great and violent free-for-all.
Certain private investigators have clients with cases somehow intersecting matters of interest to Starr. Somehow, witnesses for the so-called Whitewater probe overlap investigations of non- Whitewater. Summaries and abstracts of Starr's records somehow have slipped out of his custody and control and are being used and analyzed by others. This includes secret Swiss and Italian bank records, as well as records and details of Hong Kong branches of various bank and bank accounts.
Those who know about the work of Starr and his associates contend that Starr wants to limit the federal criminal indictments so that details do not publicly surface implicating the following, among others:
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---------------------------<< Notes >>--------------------------- {1} For further info on a possible Zapata Petroleum/drug trafficking connection, see The Immaculate Deception by Russell S. Bowen. Carson City: America West Publishers, 1991. ISBN 0- 922356-80-7
{2} Regarding the alleged Bush/Saddam connection:
MAJOR MEDIA HIDES BUSH-SADDAM-BCCI KICKBACK SCAM (From The Spotlight, August 19, 1991)
Should President George Bush be prosecuted for engaging in secret, illegal international business deals with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein?
That was the provocative topic of the March 28 [1991] broadcast of The Spotlight's nightly call-in talk forum RADIO FREE AMERICA [RFA] with host Tom Valentine.
Valentine's guest was veteran researcher Sherman Skolnick of Chicago, who has been investigating Bush's involvement in a burgeoning scandal which has been ignored by the Establishment media.
Skolnick can be reached at the Citizens Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, Illinois [60617].
Skolnick also maintains a regular five-minute telephone commentary, changed regularly, through which he brings updates about his research about both local and national news. The telephone number is (312) 731-1100.
Skolnick was interviewed again on RFA on August 6 [1991], in which he reiterated these charges and gave additional details.
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TOM VALENTINE:
Former CIA Director-turned-President of the United States George
Bush has a lot of skeletons in his closet, doesn't he?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The press has published, without too many details, that there was
$200 billion in oil shipments from Iraq to the West over the past
five years and that Saddam Hussein siphoned off kickbacks of 5
percent. That's $10 billion.
The press did not see fit to mention -- at any time -- who [else] was involved in those kickbacks. It was none other than Saddam's partner in private business ventures -- George Herbert Walker Bush.
A director of a BCCI holding company, First American Bank in Washington, D.C., is Clark Clifford [former secretary of defense and leading Democratic Party figure]. More about Clifford later.
The bank is also linked to the financial affairs of former President Jimmy Carter and his friend and one-time budget director, banker Bert Lance.
Some of the details about the Democrats who have been involved in this whole affair have been published, for example, in the May 3 [1991] issue of the Wall Street Journal.
During the 1988 presidential campaign, additionally, BCCI was one of the major financiers of the Michael Dukakis campaign.
BCCI operates in 73 countries and has 400 branches.
BCCI financed the Democratic Party in the United States and arranged deals for Republicans outside the United States.
One, to stop BCCI's funding of the Dukakis campaign so that Dukakis would have no money for television advertisements in the remaining weeks of the 1988 campaign.
Two, to impound and suppress records at the Chicago branch regarding kickbacks to Saddam which tend to incriminate George Bush in his joint business ventures with the Iraqi dictator.
I point out another thing: The same bank has records showing joint business ventures between Gen. Manuel Noriega, former dictator of Panama, and George Bush.
Here's why: They told the Justice Department that if they were going to go to prison that they had documents from their bank showing that George Bush had private business ventures through their bank with a series of dictators including not only Saddam and Noriega but others as well.
What's interesting is that the records of the Florida branch of BCCI were not seized, but the Chicago branch records were seized. The reason for this is that the bulk of the $10 billion in kickbacks to Saddam went through the Chicago branch.
This is almost certainly the same reason that the Justice Department is not interested in bringing charges against the Chicago bankers. They can use the same threat against Bush that the Florida bankers have made.
The Justice Department not only seized the Chicago branch records to damage the Dukakis campaign, but to cover up the joint business ventures between Bush and various dictators, as I've mentioned.
Another bank, the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro [BNL], is also involved in these deals. Their Chicago subsidiary also had records relating to these deals.
However, on December 28, 1990 a federal judge in Chicago, Brian Duff, who is tied in with the Federal Reserve, impounded those records and chased Gonzalez's attorney out of court and called him names, saying he was acting like "an 800-pound gorilla."
The judge ordered Gonzalez not to use any of the records that he already has and ordered him to give the other documents back.
All of this appears in the court records. In the March 25 [1991] issue of The Spotlight you published the docket number of the case in question, which is in the U.S. District Court in Chicago.
It is the People of the State of Illinois ex rel William C. Harris vs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. It is case No. 90 C 6863.
Here we have two foreign banks operating in Chicago that were part of these deals.
Who owns Pennzoil? George Bush and his friends.
Some of this came out in an obituary in the Chicago Tribune on March 4. It referred to "George Bush and his partner William Liedtke Jr. and Liedtke's brother." It said that "In the mid- 1950s [the Liedtke brothers] teamed up with then-oilman George Bush and John Overbee to form Zapata Petroleum Co."
"Then they went on to form Pennzoil."
Texaco went to the U.S. Supreme Court because they were told that they had to put up a $12 billion "appeals bond." (It would have been the biggest appeals bond in the history of the world.)
Bush leaned on the Supreme Court -- let's say it like it is -- Bush corrupted the Supreme Court to grant no remedy to Texaco. Believe me, legal scholars were scratching their heads, but there's no doubt about what happened.
Where did the kickbacks to Saddam reportedly come from? They came from the deals between Texaco and its subsidiaries purchasing oil from Iraq. There's where the $200 billion comes from and 5 percent of that is $10 billion.
There's no way in the world that Bush would not have known about those kickbacks, which he obviously supervised. As far as the kickbacks, there has been something published about them.
The November 29, 1989 issue of the Wall Street Journal reported that "IRS officials say that officials of the BNL got $290,000 in kickbacks from Saddam in his deals."
The nature of these "deals" are left out of the article. Obviously, some of these deals are the ones in which Bush was involved.
As I perceive it, there has been falsification of records and obstruction of justice. By what right does the White House lean on the Supreme Court to damage Texaco for the benefit of George Bush and his Pennzoil company?
I've interviewed several sources who know Clifford and his wife. His wife is going around crying to friends that her husband is about to be indicted and framed by the White House to protect Bush himself from going to prison.
I don't know if Clark Clifford is an angel or not, but I do know it's wrong to blame all of this on Clifford and ride him into jail without Bush going along behind him.
They are trying to make it look like the BCCI scandal is a Democratic Party albatross and focus everything on Clifford.
I don't say any of this lightly. I'm saying that there is a reasonable basis for grand juries to indict George Bush.
As far as I'm concerned there's only one independent source in this country, and those are grand jurors.
If there are any grand jurors out there listening, they have the opportunity here. They don't have to wait for the chief judge or the prosecutor.
Our grand jurors can use their power to investigate these transactions that have been summarized here involving Bush, Noriega and Saddam along with BCCI and BNL. There's enough here to prosecute Bush.
Gonzalez's closest friends say that the only thing preventing the congressman from going on the floor of the House and urging Bush's prosecution is that the White House is invoking some sort of "national security" matter involving these two banks.
I encourage distribution of "Conspiracy Nation."
Coming to you from Illinois -- "The Land of Skolnick"