Carlyle Mentioned For Ports And NBC Sex Scandal Questioned....

[global1]

Nora O'Donnell was on Imus this a.m. She made a veiled mention ot Carlyle in relation to the Ports fix and U.S. company to take over. The Imus asked her about the sex scandal at NBC. She said she knew nothing. They laughed.

What's this sex scandal about? Has Carlyle been mentioned with respect to taking over the ports?

[Benhurst]

1. Since when has Carlyle been an American company?

[IndianaGreen]

3. Carlyle Group = Frank Carlucci

February 1, 2002

The Strange Career of Frank Carlucci
By Francis Schor

In the past few months there has been a rash of media reports on the Carlyle Group, a private equity investment group with billions of dollars of assets in the defense industry and a roster of directors and consultants which includes not only well-known Reagan and Bush appointees but also international figures like John Major, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Fidel Ramos, the former President of the Philippines.

The Chairman of the Carlyle Group, Frank Carlucci, was not only a former Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, but a Deputy Director of the CIA during the Carter Administration. In fact, Carlucci's career in Washington provides some insight into the intersection between foreign and domestic policy in the Cold War years. Moreover, Carlucci's particular trajectory through the government and into private industry reveals much about the meaning and influence of the military-industrial complex in the past and continuing policies of the United States at home and abroad.

A critical part of Carlucci's career was spent as a foreign service officer during the 1950's and 1960's in such hot spots as the Congo and Brazil. He capped that foreign service career with a stint as Ambassador to Portugal from 1974-77, a key time in the history and development of the Portuguese revolution. Carlucci's navigation through these conflictual moments helps to situate the nuances of US cold war policies not only in these specific countries, but throughout the world.

As the Second Secretary in the US Embassy in the Congo during the time of the reign and consequent assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Carlucci was intimately involved in the US efforts to overthrow Lumumba's government. In the recent cinematic reconstruction of the life and times of the Congo's first elected prime minister, Lumumba by Haitian director, Raoul Peck, Carlucci is depicted as being part of a meeting of US, Belgian, and Congo officials plotting the murder of Lumumba. Claiming that this particular meeting was fabricated by the filmmaker, Carlucci did admit at a Washington premier of the film that US policy towards the Lumumba government was a bit "too strident."

http://www.counterpunch.org/schorcarlucci.html

[Just Me]

6. Carlyle Group directly tied to Dubai International Capital!

http://www.dubaiic.com/portfolio.htm

Bad, bad, bad, bad BushCO!!!! Tsk Tsk Tsk!!!

[IndianaGreen]

2. Carlyle and Halliburton have been mentioned as port managers

as to the NBC sex scandal, I am all ears!

[Windy]

4. Let him give it to Halliburton. That will seal the repubs fate

Everyone knows Cheney's ties to Halliburton. It will sink the republican party.

[stray cat]

5. some guy on network news was caught with a female employee

in an office doing something non-work related.