Fausta has another installment in this “Just So Story”…Oil-for-Food division.
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Thank you Roger!
Speaking of “How Marc got Rich”, I did a NYT search for his name and the first item was
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If only Volker had known, it would have saved him a heck of a lot of footnotes.
Fausta
You quote the Volker Report:
Do you know the date of this transaction?
What Captain Ed tells us:
…is especially troubling, and suggests that Clinton’s carelessness with our national security extended even further than I, at least, suspected.
Jamie Irons
Jamie,
Page 62, footnote 107 details transactions that took place from Feb. 1, 2001 to Sept. 19, 2002.
Thanks, Fausta…
So, M. Rich was in business with Saddam from about eight months before September 11, 2001 till more than a year afterwards, at least with respect to this series of transactions.
Good G_d!
Jamie Irons
Marc Rich has been a crook and fugitive for more than 20 years. It would be a real surprise if he was not involved in this!
Anyone with decent political contacts and experience of offshore financial structures and oil trading in the middle east, be he situated in Switzerland or Russia or anywhere else, would have been expected to grab a slice of the OFF pie. Too good to pass up.
As Kinsley says, the real scandal is what’s not considered a scandal. And in certain quarters of France, Switzerland and most of the former Soviet Union, no one considers OFF a scandal at all. Hell, jumping into pariah markets evacuated by the international community is practically a core tactic of French grand strategy.