This edition gives us
a brief window on how Washington is for sale. Nothing is sacred
from the auction block in Washington. Even the human rights of
Vietnam Veterans and our children are not sacrosanct. They call
it selling agendas to the wealthy for money and the powerful for
IOU's. The average US citizen infrequently sees the worst unless
it surfaces as BCCI, BNL or other scandals. The criminals are
seldom exposed. If they are uncovered they rarely go to trial
and even more rarely prosecuted. Their friends control the investigation.
The second most efficient political procedure in Washington, after
graft collecting, is controlling investigations. Blue ribbon panels,
special prosecutors, spin doctors, shredders, etc are the tools
of investigatory control. These insiders when caught invariably
get to keep the money. The perplexing question is why politicians
loosing the competitive edge to challengers receiving money from
the likes of the Saud family remain mute? Do the leaders of the
parties keep a lid upon what can and cannot be discussed in public?
Are there Washington insiders who specialize in scandal damage
control? Why do not different independent watch dog groups insist
Washington insiders committing criminal activities get put on
trial? The Saud family have spent a great deal of time and money
developing confidence in Washington that their proverbial handshake
is as good as a written contract. So far they have lived up to
their deferred payment scheme compensation. There are many examples
of retired political appointees, politicians and key careerists
collecting their Saud family deferred payments. Stephen Emerson
in his book American House of Saud reports: "Beyond the issue
of former ambassadors exploiting their political opinions, a larger
issue concerns the ever growing 'revolving door' in Washington.
To be sure, the problem ... whereby officials leave government
to go into the private sector and vice versa... has been around
in Washington for a long time. But the involvement of so many
former U.S. officials, who were entrusted with varying degrees
of control over American Middle East policy, with petrodollars
has created a 'revolving door' of monumental and dizzying proportions."C18
The traditions of the Arabian peninsula are that you allow another
to stay at your home as long as they want. If a guest sees something
they like it is customary for the host to give that object as
a gift. Obviously this can be straining if the host is a Saud
family prince and the guest is a lowly Bedouin. The Saud family
uphold this practice but only among those of comparable wealth.
To circumvent this problem the Saud family build high walls around
their palaces. It is no wonder Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan
bin Abdul Aziz has built his palaces with difficult accessibility.
One need just drive to the entrance of his palace on Chain Bridge
Road just down from the CIA headquarters in McLean. The Saud family
are very courteous and accommodating to those who are wealthy
and/or powerful while disdaining the poor and powerless. This
is one of the reasons they frequently run afoul of US middle class
citizens and need the State Department to bail them out with such
ruses as retroactive diplomatic immunity. Ambassador Prince Bandar
bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz has been infinitely more tactful than
many other members of his family. For instance, on many occasions
he has given substantial donations to various charities or civic
organizations within the Aspen area where he spends much of his
time hosting Washington insiders at his local palace. This has
endeared him to the locals. He is allowed to live in his Aspen
palace unhampered by the conflicts of the world beyond the mountains.
More to the point, he is allowed to summon his Washington retainers
away from raised eyebrows and prying media.
A Prince Faisal tore down an estate previously belonging to an
old River Oaks family to build a marble palace. It has been nicknamed
"the pleasure mausoleum" because of the Prince's extensive
use of marble. The property is constantly guarded even though
the Prince left Houston when his behavior became notorious. Prince
Faisal is said to have designed a swimming pool up against his
neighbors border contrary to local ordinances. When told, he promptly
went to the neighbor and told him he wanted to buy his estate
and to name a price. The neighbor is said to have tripled the
actual value whereupon the Prince cut a check providing the neighbor
move out of the estate within a week. The Prince now uses this
abutting estate as a guest house for his palace. During Prince
Faisal's brief time at his River Oaks palace, he had many parties
night after night featuring deviant sexual behavior. He had a
bevy of impressionable young US girls for whom he leased BMWs,
Mercedes, etc. The girls were allowed to keep clothes and jewelry
purchased on the Prince's account when they were allowed to go
shopping. A bodyguard was assigned each girl so the Prince could
control their movements. They had to abide by the Princes wishes,
especially during his parties. The recorded owner of the palace
is a realty firm. There are several Saud family palaces most probably
under corporate names around the River Oaks section of Houston.
The Saud family continue to make plans for their asylum within
the US when they are deposed. This palace most probably will again
be actively used by the Saud family when they are kicked out of
the Arabian peninsula. US citizens must keep a vigil against the
chosen Washington politicians, public relations firms, lobbyists,
lawyers, consultants and special interests securing this future
mass asylum for a family who have enslaved and tortured US citizens.
The Arab citizenry under the control of the Saud family
must not let the Saud family run to the palaces they are now building
within the US. These Arab citizens must stop illicit Saud family
asylum seekers just as the Iranians put up a fuss when David Rockefeller
tried to influence President Carter to grant asylum to the Shah.
The Saud family must not be allowed to collect on their hidden
IOU's. If the Saud family's Washington retainers are successful
with asylum requests and a good part of the Saud family are firmly
ensconced within the US, as seems to be the plan, they must realize
they will be legally impotent having lost the Washington "special
relationship" they now have. They may be in for a rude awakening.
A group of corrupt Houston lawyers and judges have been looting
the estates of wealthy naturalized citizens. It seems these unwitting
foreign born are set upon through nebulous business schemes or
staged legal conflicts and soon find themselves a lot less wealthy.
We have heard this group are just waiting for the day the Saud
family settles down in their Houston area palaces without the
State Department "freedom from prosecution card" they
have become so accustomed to utilizing.
A Prince Faisal was arrested in England for possession of drugs, allegedly heroin and cocaine. Prince Faisal has had several internationally noted criminal brushes with the police. This time his extended family did not put any bail up for him. Obviously the Saud family have decided to allow the vagaries of the common folk rule Prince Faisal's destiny.
Vietnam Veterans enslaved and tortured by the Saud family were
approached by a CNN producer who said he was investigating the
abuse of US citizens in Saudi Arabia. The Vietnam Veterans worked
with him for approximately two years giving him documentation
and leads to other Vietnam Veterans enslaved and/or tortured by
the Saud family. Approximately 200 hours of video were taken of
US citizens discussing their traumatic tortures at the hands of
the Saud family. The producer aired a small segment on CNN in
the Washington area. Shortly thereafter the producer was no longer
with CNN and ended up working for a small trade magazine. After
waiting a reasonable time for an airing of the planned documentary,
the Vietnam Veterans asked for their documents and photographs
back from CNN. These documents included a photograph of a Saud
family torture chamber similar to that allegedly used by the Iraqis
in Kuwait as well as one depicting a palace prison for sex slaves.
Turner Broadcasting Assistant General Counsel reports; "we
are looking through the files in the CNN Washington Bureau, also
in an effort to determine whether CNN has in its possession any
of Mr. Mallard's materials."C19 CNN Assistant General Counsel
later reports: "Although I have not heard from you concerning
particulars of any documents and/or photographs which Mr. Mallard
believes are still in CNN's possession, CNN has expended a great
deal of effort in looking through its materials and has been unable
to find anything which belonged to Mr. Mallard. ... it is our
understanding that all materials of Mr. Mallard's were returned
to him quite some time ago."C20 Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin
in their book False Profits say: "Through this long-secret
relationship, the Saudis have even brought themselves close to
- perhaps directly into - an ownership position in Ted Turner's
Cable News Network (CNN). At the center of this scheme was a group
of Saudi intelligence operatives with intimate ties to both BCCI
and the CIA."C21 Several pages later they go on to say: "In
the mid-1980s, Turner was desperately short of capital and on
the verge of bankruptcy. In 1987 ... [there was] a $560,000,000
rescue of Turner's company. ...Were BCCI and its friends in Saudi
intelligence behind the bailout of Turner Broadcasting? If so,
were they seeking to influence public opinion in the United States
and other countries where CNN operates?"C22 The Vietnam Veterans
also incurred another case of missing documents when slides depicting
Saud family atrocities against US citizens disappeared from The
Boston Globe. An Associate Editor of the Boston Globe reports;
"I wish to inform you repeated efforts have been made to
locate the slides ... without success."C23 Soon after disappearance
of slides, photographs and documents from CNN and the Globe, the
Saud family government severely restricted visas for foreign photographers.
This policy continues to this day.
Ron Brown should be considered the typical Washington insider. Ron Brown had many titles in Washington. He was at one time Chairman of the National Democratic Party appointed to that position by others who saw nothing wrong with his behavior. He ended his career by being Secretary of Commerce constantly looking for side deals that were personally rewarding. Again, by virtue of being appointed to these prestigious positions, the Democratic Party and the Clinton Administration saw nothing wrong with his behavior. New York Times reports: "Mr Ly Thanh Binh ... [has been] telling reporters, Congressional staff members and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation ... that Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown had sought a bribe from the Vietnamese Government in return for his help in lifting the trade embargo against Vietnam."C24 Mr Binh who reported the alleged solicitation said; 'My motive purely is that I do not believe in unethical government conduct.' ... Mr. Brown seem to contradict statements put out earlier by his aids. ... Mr. Brown flew to South Florida on a private jet, met with Mr. Hoa and told him he wanted to be 'the exclusive lobbyist' for Vietnam ... Mr. Brown wanted $700,000 and other economic concessions. Mr. Binh said the money was to be placed in a Singapore bank account controlled by a friend of Mr. Brown."C25 Through the Freedom of Information Act we have found Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown in his trip to Saudi Arabia met with a number of Saud family members and their associates. The Summary Schedule says Secretary Brown also met in a country team briefing with CEO of AT&T Network Systems International and the Managing Director of AT&T Saudi Arabia. The New Yorker says: "Fahd had agreed to give a four-billion-dollar telephone contract to A.T.&T.. European competitors complained that the American bid had been far higher than theirs - twice as high, in fact. Fahd was prepared to pay dearly for his relationship with the United States."C26 For more on the Brown/ATT relationship please contact this newsletter. ATT gave $765,763, to the Democratic Party between 1993 and 1995. King Fahd also placed a $3.6 billion order with Boeing. Boeing gave $65,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Clinton is forcing a pliant King Fahd to accept the US corporations over their European competitors. What could be the reasoning? Assistant Secretary of Defense/Secretary of Navy James Webb reports in a New York Times article: "The President appears to follow the constitutionally questionable (albeit effective ) approach used by the Bush Administration in the Persian Gulf war: putting troops in an area where no American forces have been threatened and no treaties demand their presence, then gaining international agreement before placing issue before Congress."C27 The Europeans persist on backing a "questionable" Presidential policy while continuing to lose out on the resulting Saud family contracts. During Secretary Ron Brown's first months in office he was responsive to the plight of the Vietnam Veterans enslaved and tortured by the Saud family, that is until he returned from a trade mission to Saudi Arabia. Upon returning Secretary Brown called the plight of the Vietnam Veterans a negative and refused to aid in the negotiations to settle this dispute. At this same time he was actively and successfully pursuing negotiations between large US corporations and the Saud family. The Washington Post reports: "Clinton yielded to 'resurgent mercantilism' and allowed Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown to become the U.S. government's human rights spokesman, Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth said: ... 'So thoroughly did the quest for foreign markets eclipse human rights that Secretary Brown made the audacious claim, without presidential contradiction, that ... the public stigmatization of repressive regimes - for decades indispensable to the defense of human rights - is a mere 'feel-good policy' that accomplishes nothing,"C28 The Washington Post reports: "A Brazilian businessman arranged a large loan to a friend of Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown, which was used to buy a Washington town house now occupied by the friend and owned by Brown, according to U.S. News & World Report. ... [The businessman] is an adviser to Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. ... [The businessman] held a dinner party at his home in Sao Paolo for Brown when he headed a trade mission to Brazil"C29. It has been learned that Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown left an estate which is said to include a sizable cache of monies in a Grand Cayman off shore account. This off shore account is said to be in his own name. He did not make any effort to hide it under a number, shell corporation or one of his associates names. The behavior of Secretary of Commerce Ronald H Brown should be considered the rule and not the exception in Washington. Usually Washington types do not meet with an untimely death and are able to pass their hidden accounts to others without notice during their retirement years. At this time it is not known whence these Cayman monies could have come or how much if any came from foreign countries, US corporations or the Saud family. It is believed that Ron Brown never registered as an agent of a foreign country or a lobbyist for corporations either before of after he became Secretary of Commerce. This is better left to the world media to track.
The Committee Against the Sauduction
of Washington has been told the Treasury Department keeps records
of the more substantial foreign investments made within the United
States. Through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) we hope
to obtain a list of Saudi Arabian investments within the United
States.Treasury reports:"The Department of Treasury regulations
... require that before a FOIA request can be processed, requesters
must state how the records released will be used. This information
is used to determine the requester's category for fee purposes,
not to determine the releasability of any records."C30 We
hope to determine the official amount of monies invested within
the United States so that we may then find any monies secreted
by the Saud family covertly under shell companies. We believe
this will facilitate the repatriation of these monies by the new
government when the Saud family are deposed.
Dear Reader:
Again, we do not believe any US military personnel should be in
Saudi Arabia to aid the perpetuation of the Saud family regime
at the expense of the Arabs they control. These are internal matters
better left to the citizens. The only ones to benefit from preserving
the power of the corrupt repressive Saud family are the favored
Washington politicians, lawyers, lobbyists, consultants and special
interests who have a vested interest in perpetuating the Saud
family regime. Washington insiders seek out any loose money. We
have seen in this news letter insight into what a corrupting force
the Saud family can be with vast wealth skimmed from the oil reserves
they control. If allowed asylum within the US they would most
probably be a morally and ethically destabilizing force to the
entire US society, more so than they are now.
We thank those who have contributed documentation.
Herb Mallard
National Press Club member
Co-Chairman