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ISSUE #4

After Vice President George Bush became President I decided to approach his office one last time figuring as President he had much more latitude to show his true feelings towards the Vietnam Veterans tortured and enslaved by the Saud family. We see that C Boyden Gray, the President’s Legal Council, would not deal with my petition sent to him and, yet again, the Texas two step prevailed. The President’s White House Counsel shunted the Vietnam Veteran’s petition onto the State Department which was working so closely with Ambassador Prince Bandar and his family to thwart any torture, slavery, kidnap complaints of US citizens against the Saud family. At the time C Boyden Gray and his wife were divorced with C Boyden getting custody of their girl. His wife gave up the privileged White House trappings and the hypocrisy of Washington to become a free thinker and humanist in lower Manhattan. It was clear that Bandar and President George Bush Sr were going to let the tortured Vietnam Veterans languish. Nothing else could be done on their behalf, nothing.

I later read the Houston Chronicle reported: "In Washington, a State Department spokesperson declined to 'discuss the laws of another country', and no one at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh would discuss the policy of the United States toward the Saudi law that foreign workers be given no more than 24 hours refuge in a foreign mission. While there is no indication that the U.S. government returns Americans to Saudi employers, there are indications that U.S. citizens are turned away when they seek refuge at the embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia. In the case of Monica Radwan, 35, a Houston kindergarten teacher, U.S. officials refused to shelter her and her two children ... when she sought refuge at the U.S. Embassy ... a consular official called in Marine guards, who physically picked [her daughter] up and carried her off the premises, with her mother and brother following."B16 After reading this I remembered how Ambassador Prince Bandar had activated a deferred payment scheme in Washington whereby the likes of State Department functionaries would be paid upon retirement for work done for his Saud family while at the State Department. I knew Ambassador Prince Bandar had a cadre of Washington retainers unparalleled since the Shah of Iran’s Ambassador Ardishir Zahidi. I remembered that Prince Bandar was one of a dozen people included within the President George Bush’s presidential box at the Republican Convention in Houston.

It seems all but official that foreigners, including governments, can buy influence in Washington. This makes legitimate foreigners capable of doing what Ambassador Prince Bandar has been doing for as long as one can remember. Washington Post reports; "Justice Department's own interpretations of campaign finance laws seem likely to limit its reach among the sellers of influence. The department seems to believe, for example, that soliciting foreign money cannot be prosecuted if the contributions are soft-money donations". K98 This statement finally makes a partially honest man of Ambassador Prince Bandar, that is, only towards his Washington politician slush fund allotments. We still have to deal with Prince Bandar's deferred payment scheme to political appointees and careerists.

LETTERS FROM READERS

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I am a Vietnam Vet and can’t believe me and other Vets have been kept from such information. Why haven’t the news people taken up such news? United States Vets deserve to know this stuff goes on in our country. It gets me that we saved the Saudis asses from Hussein and all they do is buy politicians in Washington against us. Bush let the bin Ladens and other Saudis involved in 9/11 get on planes and leave the United States without questioning them. What in hell is going on in Washington? Let’s kick Bandar and the rest of the Saudis out of our country?

Bushwhackers:
I was told by a business friend about your internet site. It just happens I experienced relatively the same thing from Team 100 and --------. He was supposed to ease my company into a favorable military contract. We make the best product for the job but were told an inferior competitor gave more money to the Bush campaign and got the contract. This competitor subs to China part of the product. It is disgusting to see our soldiers put in jeopardy by these guys. Our soldiers deserve the best equipment to defend themselves. We are still furious at -----------. I’d like to see the guy brought down but these guys run the Justice Department. I am asking friends to pass the word and give you more scum on these guys. They will sell our Veterans out for money.

Herb Mallard, Publisher
National Press Club member

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