Gordon Thomas
Bush's family under investigation
Mon Jul 28 21:41:20 2003
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Bush's family under investigation

PRESIDENT BUSH’S FAMILY LINKS WERE UNDER INVESTIGATION
BY TOP U.S. SPY CATCHER

by
Gordon Thomas


Business links – involving “the mobilisation of trillions of dollars” – by President Bush’s father and his brother Neil, were under investigation by America’s top spy catcher, Paul Redmond, when he resigned.
A well-placed Washington intelligence source said that Redmond quit after a White House meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General John Ashcroft.
They are known as “The Enforcers” – ensuring there is no taint on the reputation of the increasingly embattled President with the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Already, said the Washington source, the two men have ensured Bush distances himself from Tony Blair’s claims that the weapons will be found.
But equally Downing Street will want to stay clear of the allegation that the President’s family were doing business with Saddam from 1989 up to months before the outbreak of the first Gulf War.
In a document obtained by the respected London-based International Currency Review, it was claimed that after a year long investigation, it had uncovered evidence “of the mobilisation of trillions of dollars in 1989-91”.
The document names a number of banks it alleges were “supervised by the Bush Sr White House” in the alleged transactions.
The banks identified in the document include the British Royal Family bankers, Coutts; Morgan Guaranty Trust and Chase Manhattan, New York; Banco Exterior de Espana, Spain; First International Bank of Denver in the United States.
Christopher Story, the publisher of the specialist Currency Review said the documents relating to the Bush family are “taken from a portfolio of papers” which was made available to the Review last July.
“What will cause astonishment is the provenance of some of these compromising documents. For many months we considered carefully whether they could be forgeries, and whether it could be credible that an intelligence organisation or a private gang of blackmailers and counterfeiters could replicate the precise behaviour of an obsolescent IBM computer to produce output identical to those images shown with this analysis. We checked these possibilities repeatedly with experts and also consulted banking sources to see whether these documents could possibly be fraudulent. The outcome of these investigations was unequivocally that the documentation is genuine.”
A set of the documents reached Washington soon after Redmond began his investigation.
Both President Bush’s father and his brother, Neil, are known to have a close involvement in the Texas oil industry.
Story claimed that the documents were leaked by the Iraqis to “discredit President Bush Sr” as Saddam began to realise that George Bush was preparing for war against Iraq.

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Former CIA Counterintelligence Chief Paul Redmond's Testimony before the House Select Committee on Intelligence
http://www.nopolygraph.com/_disc1/00000068.htm

From: Anonymous
Date: 18 Feb 2000
Time: 07:35:58
Remote Name: 216.34.244.105
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On Wednesday, Feb. 16th, former CIA counterintelligence chief Paul Redmond testified before the House Select Committee on Intelligence about DOE security measures, especially the new polygraph screening policy. Redmond was commissioned to prepare a report for the committee. The full report is reportedly to be made public within a month.

In his testimony, Redmond criticized DOE scientists for not embracing polygraph screening, and blamed DOE headquarters for not selling the program to scientists.

Redmond seems to be a big polygraph fan. But do you suppose he mentioned to the distinguished members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence that polygraph screening depends on the polygrapher lying to and deceiving the person being tested? Do you suppose he mentioned that scientists at the national atomic weapons labs know this? Do you suppose he mentioned FBI SSA Drew Richardson's testimony that polygraph screening has no theoretical foundation whatsoever and absolutely no validity?

Do you suppose Mr. Redmond mention to the distinguished members of the committee that while Redmond was in CIA counterintelligence, Aldrich Ames, who had become a suspect in the CIA's search for a mole within its ranks, was able to escape closer scrutiny because he "passed" his polygraph while CIA counterintelligence focused on an innocent agent who "failed?" Not likely. But CIA's ill-conceived reliance on polygraph screening enabled Aldrich Ames to continue his betrayal of our country. And it cost the lives of CIA informants in the Soviet Union.

Everyone should pay attention to the soon-to-be-released Redmond report. Congress is being given another whitewash on polygraph screening. We must not let the misrepresentations which are sure to be in the Redmond report go uncorrected.

Read more about Redmond's testimony in The Albuquerque Journal:

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/15news02-17-00.htm

See also a press release by New Mexico 1st district Rep. Heather Wilson, who is a member of the Committee (and still seems wishy-washy on polygraph screening -- she needs to know that polygraph screening means that the government is lying to and deceiving *her* constituents -- her contact info is at http://hillsource.house.gov/wilson/Contact.asp ):

http://hillsource.house.gov/wilson/NewsAction.asp?FormMode=Releases&ID=94

Read about the specific polygraph screening format adopted by DOE on the Federation of American Scientists website at:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/polygraph/maschke.html
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