them damn bushs...the more you know the more they suck?

Question

George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family.

The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down."

It also had a three-year contract to maintain electronic security systems at Dulles Airport, according to a Dulles contracting official. Securacom/Stratesec also handled some security for United Airlines in the 1990s, according to McDaniel, but it had been completed before his arriving on the board in 1998.

McDaniel confirmed that the company has security contracts with the Department of Defense, including the U.S. Army, but did not detail the nature of the work, citing security concerns. It has an ongoing line with the General Services Administration - meaning that its bids for contracts are noncompetitive - and also did security work for the Los Alamos laboratory before 1998.

Marvin P. Bush, the president's youngest brother, was a director at Stratesec from 1993 to fiscal year 2000. But the White House has not publicly disclosed Bush connections in any of its responses to 9/11, nor has it mentioned that another Bush-linked business had done security work for the facilities attacked.

Marvin Bush joined Securacom when it was capitalized by the Kuwait-American Corporation, a private investment firm in D.C. that was the security company's major investor, sometimes holding a controlling interest. Marvin Bush has not responded to telephone calls and e-mails for comment.

KuwAm has been linked to the Bush family financially since the Gulf War. One of its principals and a member of the Kuwaiti royal family, Mishal Yousef Saud al Sabah, served on the board of Stratesec.

The managing director at KuwAm, Wirt D. Walker III, was also a principal at Stratesec, and Walker, Marvin Bush and al Sabah are listed in SEC filings as significant shareholders in both companies during that period.

Marvin Bush's last year on the board at Stratesec coincided with his first year on the board of HCC Insurance, formerly Houston Casualty Co., one of the insurance carriers for the WTC. He left the HCC board in November 2002.

But none of these connections has been looked at during the extensive investigations since 9/11. McDaniel says principals and other personnel at Stratesec have not been questioned or debriefed by the FBI or other investigators. Walker declined to answer the same question regarding KuwAm, referring to the public record.

Walker is also chairman and CEO of Aviation General, a Tulsa, Okla.-based aviation company with two subsidiaries. SEC filings also show al Sabah as a principal and shareholder in Aviation General, which was recently delisted by the Nasdaq. Stratesec was delisted by the American Stock Exchange in October 2002.

The suite in which Marvin Bush was annually re-elected, according to public records, is located in the Watergate in space leased to the Saudi government. The company now holds shareholder meetings in space leased by the Kuwaiti government there. The White House has not responded to various requests for comment.

Speaking of the Watergate, Riggs National Bank, where Saudi Princess Al-Faisal had her ``Saudi money trail" bank account, has as one of its executives Jonathan Bush, an uncle of the president. The public has not learned whether Riggs - which services 95 percent of Washington's foreign embassies - will be turning over records relating to Saudi finance.

Meanwhile, Bush has nominated William H. Donaldson to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Donaldson, a longtime Bush family friend, was a Yale classmate of Jonathan Bush.

On the very day of the tragic space shuttle crash, the government appointed an independent investigative panel, and rightly so. Why didn't it do the same on Sept. 12, 2001?

S H I R A Z
Why dont you put your so-called love for America to use and open your eyes!!!

mymadsky
Real intelligent response

Ethan M
What was boring? The part where your beloved presidents brother is implicated in the murder of 3,000 U.S. citizens?

Answer 1

Yawn that was long boring and by the way not a question.

Answer 2

I am really concerned & would be interested in knowing who changed President Bush's cousin Jim Pierce's meeting the day of 9/11? He set up the meeting himself the night b4. It could only be him that would have changed that meeting if he was the one that set it up in the 1st place. Apparently there were only 12 other people to be in that meeting & nobody was notified except Jim Pierce that the meeting was changed to the hotel across the street? Why was he the only one that was notified? When he was the one that set the meeting up in the 1st place, he decided himself to go across the street to the motel & he didn't notify anybody. I forgot about all of this in the media with the Bush's on 911 until somebody reminded me of it the other day! I now think the Saudi's were in charge, had access & President Bush was warned & he ignored it. Whether any of the Bush's were involved it is possible. I would lean more towards the cousin Jim Pierce since it is weird that only he showed up for a meeting at the hotel. Twelve people are not a lot for a meeting or 13 including Jim Pierce. He made the meeting originally sound like there might be 50 or 100 people in that meeting. 13 People don't require a big room to hold a meeting! SOUNDS VERY, VERY FISHY! BUT IF EITHER HIM OR HIS COUSIN MARVIN BUSH WERE AWARE OF THE ATTACKS OR EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WHY WOULD THEY EVEN PUT THEMSELVES IN THE VICINITY NOT KNOWING THEY COULD STILL DIE OR NOT? I thought that I read somewhere where he went to the mall to get walking shoes right after it happened & it was bare. I hope that is not true, that is just as bad. While people are dying & trying to escape with their lives & turmoil is going on he was worried he would get blister's on his stupid feet. It also said he walked across a golf course where people were playing golf. FOR REAL!

Answer 3

How about Bush allowing the Bin Laden family to fly out of the country when the rest of our planes were grounded after 9/11?
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Buck Fush.

Answer 4

Yeah! Do seomething with your life! Like - SHIRAZ! It gets PAID to post questions attacking other users ALL DAY!

Answer 5

I get so damn tired of replicans sayin' "Clinton lied under oath" when this pack of lyin',thievin' crooks runnin' (&RUININ') our great country now can tell more lies in 10 minutes than Clinton did in 8 years!

Answer 6

Bush is from dominican Republic...that will tell you that sooner or later he is going to be in the immigration line

Answer 7

You spelled Bushes wrong.

Answer 8

Aren't you the apple of your parents eye. How would you like people to talk about you that way. Do something with your life and stop being a moron.

Answer 9

Yep. I know. I actually read this earlier today.

Answer 10

thats so0o0 true!