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James Baker's (Iraq Study Group) Law Firm Represents Saudi Government Against 9/11 Families - MSM Doesn't Report!

News Type: Opinion — Fri Dec 8, 2006 9:25 AM EST
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Besides the study group being a complete joke, it has now been brought to attention that James Baker's law firm, Baker Botts, has a secret that nobody, including the MSM, wants you to know.

James Baker is the conservative head of the recently formed Iraq Study Group which claims to be bi-partisan and without an agenda. I was one of the first to show you part of their agenda and now I will be glad to help educate you on another. Not to mention this shows that the media is willing to protect a conservative when that conservative is pushing the liberal agenda.

Baker Botts is a law firm of about 700 attorneys and a laundry list of political connections. James Baker is the senior partner of this firm.

Among other places, Baker Botts has an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It has also opened an office in Dubai. James Baker has many ties to Saudi Arabia, including numerous meetings that took place when he was the Secretary of State for the first President Bush. He was able to get financial investments in Baker Botts from Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the United States.

If you remember back, the families of the 9/11 victims sued certain Saudis for their involvement in the attacks, the Saudi Defense Minister and his brother, the governor of Riyadh. These two men turned to none other than Baker Botts to form their defense team. The Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, has given about $250,000 per year for the last sixteen years to the International Islamic Relief Organization, an organization being investigated by the U.S. government for funding Islamic terrorist groups.

In an exciting twist, it was none other than George W. Bush who gained employment at Baker Botts at the age of 15.

Does this make you think twice on why James Baker would recommend that Israel give away its land to Palestine? How about the fact that this Iraq "study" Group was able to come up with more than 75 recommendations, none of which described a way to win the war in Iraq? Why do people with these types of connections continue to be appointed to head councils on foreign policy? I consider this grounds for complete dismissal of the Iraq Study Group's report and I demand that the taxpayers have their 1.3 million dollars returned to them immediately, with interest.

This information can be found on Newsweek, www.bakerbotts.com, and www.thenation.com. It has also been featured by Michael Savage.

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Pamela Drew

Outstanding find, give it your vote too. It has been explained to me that the initial vote thing is tied to the software to get something going so don't be shy about self promotion on the seed. Any moral dilema you have can be reserved for voting up your comments.

The truth is that this is nothing but an insider spin job from the word go right down to Lee Hamilton being picked as the bipartisan Democrat on this and the 9/11 Commission. Do we really have so few qualified candidates we need to double down on investigators?

I just seeded a release from Kucinich's office, and link to interview where he essentially accuses the Congress of operating this like a crime ring looting billions in oil and dying for profits. His words are more diplomatic, but he doesn't pull any punches, calling it as he sees it and urging Americans to contact their Members of Congress to protest.

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Reply#1 - Fri Dec 8, 2006 10:25 AM EST
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Pamela Drew

Here a few trails connected to the Iraq Study Group and its "bipartisan" members.

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#1.1 - Fri Dec 8, 2006 10:57 AM EST
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Aine MacDermot

Baker was also on that Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, which you know didn't get anywhere.

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Reply#2 - Fri Dec 8, 2006 9:16 PM EST
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Pamela Drew

That's the goal of many of these groups, to assure it goes nowhere. The Warren Commission still isn't public, bravo S&B.

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    #2.1 - Fri Dec 8, 2006 11:44 PM EST
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    Adam Hobson

    Every time I hear about a government commission or committee I cringe. Have one of those ever came out with a conclusion that did not mirror the presumed stance before it even started?

    The Baker-Hamilton report whitewashes over so much. It aims for the "easy" fix over any actual solution. It's recommendations have the negatives of both cut-and-run and staying the course with none of the positives.

    The 9/11 commission was a complete joke and it seemed that its purpose was more to protect both the Clinton and Bush administrations from scrutiny rather than actually figure out what went wrong and how we can fix it so we are prepared for the future.

    And then there was that Warren Commission that Pamela so graciously reminded us about.

    Perhaps when "non-partisan" "objective" commissions are done they should fall into hands that have never been part of the government in any capacity.

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    Reply#3 - Sat Dec 9, 2006 12:41 AM EST
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