Clark, Henry Kissinger, and Jackson Stephens

Cocoa on GD posted Wes Clark is big into Acxiom, a company specializing in high-tech snooping on the citizenry after leaving the US Army.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=212190&mesg_id=212190

I did some digging and found how the same company brings in Henry Kissinger and Jackson Stephens. Read the article and you'll see how it brings in BCCI and leads to some of the oily players in 9-11.


Henry Kissinger and Jackson Stephens

… Wes Clark and the Clintons aren’t going to like this:


Why Quit, Henry? Is It Acxiom?
By Jim Rarey
Deember 18, 2002

When Dr. K (Kissinger) withdrew as co-chairman of the commission to investigate the 9/11 terrorist attacks after refusing to make his client list public, he bitterly asserted his consulting business represented no foreign companies or governments that would constitute a conflict of interest with his duties on the commission.

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But it doesn’t stop there. The person who controls Acxiom/Alltel/Systematics is Arkansas billionaire Jackson Stephens. Stephens, and those working with him, have been involved in myriad shady operations too numerous to cite here. We can only hit some of the highlights.

At Systematics, one of the lawyers Stephens hired to represent the company was a bright young attorney named Hillary Rodham. After she joined the Rose law firm (then Hillary Rodham Clinton), Stephens employed the firm (mainly its partners Hillary, Vince Foster and Webster Hubbell) in several of his ventures.

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Our final example is perhaps the most important unfinished investigation of the last 40 years. The Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) was started by a Pakistani banker ostensibly to service Arab clients in the Middle East. It quickly became a money laundering mechanism for various terrorist organizations in the area. It then branched out to London and other locations and became a repository and laundering channel for a broad spectrum of organizations, including the terrorists as well as Mossad and the CIA.

BCCI established a branch in Florida and took over the largest bank in Washington, D.C. (First American) with the assistance of Stephen’s Worthen bank and the Rose law firm (Hillary, Foster and Hubbell). When the Florida branch was exposed, it was shut down, but the investigation was limited to Florida.

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http://www.worldnewsstand.net/MediumRare/22.htm

Jim Rarey ("Medium Rare") posts most of his stuff on THE FREE REPUBLIC. We here do not subscribe to the idea that anything Hillary Clinton ever did is the wash of evil. Now, BCCI was not a particuarly savory operation, but I don't think you'll find a lawyer in America who's firm never represented some bad apples.


Frankly, I'm having difficulty keeping the information straight, even taking notes on my tinfoil hat. It would seem that your charge is that Wes Clark sat on a board of a company run by a guy who owned a bank that had something to do with the takeover of a bank 25 years ago by a bad bank. Oh, yeah, and Hillary Clinton used to work for the law firm that did something with a separate transaction of that bad bank, or was it the other bank?

It IS a complicated story. You should learn more about it. The short of it is, the guy who can bust the Bush Organized Crime Family is John Kerry. He has the goods on BCCI and how Bush and his old man fit in. I don't believe Wes Clark is involved, but I do know Jackson Stephens, Khalid bin Mahfouz, Ghaith Pharaon, Adnan Khashoggi, Clark Clifford, and Bert Lance are.

For those who don't know the story: GOOGLE Kerry and BCCI, Iran-Contra, Ollie North and drugs. Kerry, almost single-handedly, investigated BCCI and how the crooked bank was used by everyone from the CIA to Abu Nidhal to the Saudi rOils to Pakistani Intel. The bank even, illegally, owned an American bank, fronted by Democratic elder statesman attorney Clark Clifford, the same guy who co-authored the National Security Act of 1947, the bill that formed the CIA and the National Security Council.

Ollie the Traitor was so pissed his office (and, by extension, the National Security Council and Vice President Poppy Bush) was associated with drug running, he sicced the crack FBI counter-terror squad on Kerry, claiming he must be a commie because he shook hands with Manuel Ortega, democratically ELECTED president of Nicaragua, the target of the then-illegal Contras, secretly armed by North and his Iranian business connections and several of the the world's leading narcoterrorists.

So, as President, Kerry would tie BCCI, Iraq-gate, contra-cocaine to Bush Crime Family — for starters. Imagine what someone with a mandate from the American voters, backed by the rank and file of the intelligence community and the men and women in the officer and enlisted ranks in the military and the union members of the US would do. Certainly a heck of a lot more than W’s smarmy attempt at covering up 9-11 by naming Henry Kissinger to head the commission.

Back to Kerry: Here’s what the Federation of American Scientists have to say about Senator Kerry and the investigation of BCCI. The CIA and President Poppy Doc Bush did everything possible to stonewall Kerry and buy time to shred away. Sounds familiar with 9-11, where the GOP Congress (backed by their toadies in the Conservative DEM Caucus) has unquestioningly picked up Bush’s bloody laundry.


BCCI, THE CIA AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

Introduction

Excerpt:

On May 14, 1991, Senator Kerry wrote CIA Director Webster to again request the briefing paper on BCCI prepared by the CIA, as well as information on the CIA's own use of the bank. No reply was received in response to this letter from the CIA for over two months, during which BCCI was closed globally following its seizure in the United Kingdom by the Bank of England on July 5, 1991.

In the meantime, cleared staff requested a formal briefing from CIA staff concerning the CIA's knowledge of BCCI's activities. The CIA provided an oral briefing at its offices in June, 1991 at the "secret" level, consisting of very general information concerning BCCI's use by drug traffickers, material which was by then already largely a matter of public record. The briefer provided by the CIA to Congressional staff was unfamiliar with other basic information about BCCI, such as the names of BCCI's shareholders, including former Saudi intelligence chief Kamal Adham, the key figure in BCCI's secret takeover of First American, and the CIA's former principal contact in the Arab Middle East. Further, the briefer also appeared to be ignorant of the principal analytic documents concerning BCCI previously prepared by the CIA and disseminated to Executive Branch agencies, which contained this and other more important information about BCCI.(4)

On July 23, 1991, CIA director Webster replied to Senator Kerry's May 14 request by letter, admitting to the existence of two documents concerning BCCI, which were described as "extremely sensitive" and therefore restricted to being held by the Senate intelligence committee.(5) On reviewing these memoranda, Senator Kerry recognized that the earlier of the two documents, created in early 1986, contained startling information -- that the First American Bank in Washington was secretly owned by BCCI. The distribution list attached to the memorandum indicated that the CIA had communicated this information at the time to the Treasury Department. These was no indication that either Treasury or the CIA had ever advised the Federal Reserve, the primary regulator of First American, of this critical information.

Senator Kerry asked Judge Webster to declassify immediately the fact that the CIA had known as of 1986 that BCCI owned First American, and to begin the process of declassifying the entirety of both memoranda. On July 31, 1991, the CIA advised Senator Kerry that he could reveal the information concerning BCCI's secret ownership of First American, but no other information from the memos. The CIA had not yet acknowledged its own use of BCCI to the Subcommittee, or provided access to any other materials prepared by the CIA concerning BCCI.

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http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm

If Kerry can beat Bush, he'll make a great president. If Clark fizzles by primary time, I'll probably vote for him. Also, I know that BCCI is a complex story. I remember it from when it broke. What I particularly remember is that there were a huge number of people who did business with them, just like with more recent corporate criminals such as Arthur Anderson and Worldcom. It doesn't surprise me that Stephens, one of the larger banking enterprises in the country, had something to do with BCCI, although the Freeper seems to think by dropping Vince Foster and Hillary Clinton's names that it makes it instantly overarching.

My comments were directed at the fact that it started out as an anti-Clark diatribe, cut and pasting some rambling, incoherent rant of some Freeper who describes himself as meat. Others have pointed out that Clark sat on the board of Axciom, which is a company that creates huge databases of information on behalf of powerful interests. That's fair. I think Clark's board participation was eminently appropriate, given that this company was developing a product of significant national interest (airport screening systems). I believe that we've got to have this stuff overseen by people like Mack McLarty and Wes Clark, who actually give a damn about constitutional rights. The alternative is a corporate counterpart of Poindexters latest scheme (Total Information Awareness), cooked up in the dead of night with God only knows what going on.

Based on his record, it's clear Wes Clark is a good guy. One of the longtime posters here is a close relation (second cousin?), so we have a personal endorsement from someone I highly regard, too. Should Clark get the nod as the Democratic nominee, I'll bust my chops on his behalf from my secret redoubt, here in Motown. It's for a good cause: Saying "Good night" and "You're under arrest" to the Bush Organized Crime Family. Ashcroft has already said we don't need to read terrorists their rights.

PS: Thanks for your kind reply, rsammel. It is much appreciated. Good luck to you and Gen. Clark.

she moved to a small state and went to work for the ONE big firm. Everytime that one firm was (inevitably) hired by someone or some business with a lot of money, they use it to impugn Clinton.

Reminds me of Whitewater. The Republicans didn't like the first IndCounsel because he once worked for a firm which once did a little work for a timber company which had a miniscule piece of business with someone involved in Whitewater. So they got a new Ind Counsel who once worked for a firm which did a lot of business with a lot of people who had a lot to gain from smearing Clinton AND they had business with one of the subjects of the investigation.

And I didn't mean to impugn them, as well, for their work on behalf of their clients. The thing is that the conspiracy behind BCCI was global, nationwide, and bipartisan. More than anything, I want the crooks behind bars — starting with the Bush Organized Crime Family and the secret fascistic elite they front for, my prime suspects in all things treasonous since 22 November 1963.

citizens. I think he's only ever taught, been AG, or been Governor.