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Especially when you're being investigated
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by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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In 1990 when M. Bush was a director
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of Harken Energy he received this memo
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from company lawyers warning directors
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not to sell stock
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if they had unfavorable information
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about the company.
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One week later
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he sold $848,000 worth of Harken stock.
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Two months later,
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Harken announced losses of
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more than $23 million dollars.
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The James Baker law partner
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who helped Bush beat the wrap rom the SEC
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was a man by the name of Robert Jordan
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who, when George W became President,
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was appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
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After the Harken debacle
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the friends of Bush's dad
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got him a seaton another board
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of a company owned by the Carlyle Group.
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We wanted to look at which companies
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um actually gained from September 11th.
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Turned up this company Carlyle Group.
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The Carlyle Group is a multinational conglomerate
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that invests in heavily government regulated industries
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like telecommunications, health care,
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and particularly defense.
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Both George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush
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worked for the Carlyle Group,
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the same company that counted the bin Laden family
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among its investors.
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The Carlyle Group was holding
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its annual investor conference
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on the morning of September 11th
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in the Ritz Carlton hotel in Washington, DC.
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At that meeting were all of the Carlyle regulars:
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James Baker likely, John Major,
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definitely George H.W. Bush
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though he left the morning of September 11th.
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Shapfi (sp) bin Laden,
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who is Osama bin Laden's half brother, um,
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and was in town to look after his family's investments
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in the Carlyle Group --
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all of them together in one room
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watching as the um,
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the planes hit the towers.
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And then in fact the bin Laden family
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was invested in one of their defense funds which,
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ironically, meant as the United States