The Bush-Carlyle Group Archive

Company Man
Special Report, 2002

"[Frank Carlucci, chairman of the Carlyle Group], was brought into the Nixon Administration by Donald Rumsfeld, his roommate and wrestling partner at Princeton, and quickly make his way into senior positions at the Office of Economic Opportunity (where he worked with Dick Cheney), the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (where he was mentored by Caspar Weinberger) and the White House Office of Management and Budget (where he hired an up-and-coming Army officer named Colin Powell)."
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?
i=special&c=1&s=shorrock20020314

Crony Capitalism Goes Global
April 1, 2002

"William Conway, managing director and co-founder of the Carlyle Group, was talking recently about the media coverage of his bank and the cast of ex-Presidents and former officials, including George H.W. Bush, James Baker III and Frank Carlucci, on its payroll."
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020401&s=shorrock

Dark heart of the American dream
June 16, 2002

"On 11 September, while Al-Qaeda's planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Carlyle Group hosted a conference at a Washington hotel. Among the guests of honour was a valued investor: Shafig bin Laden, brother to Osama."
http://www.observer.co.uk/magazine/story/
0,11913,738196,00.html

The Carlyle Connection
Week of May 1 - 7, 2002

"Make that a very close friend. Two internal Defense Department documents -- letters between Carlyle and Rumsfeld -- recently made available to the Voice show the intimate relationship between the Bush administration and the Carlyle Group."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0218/gray.php

The Big Guys Work For the Carlyle Group
March 18, 2002
 

"Are you the sort of person who believes in conspiracies--the Trilateral Commission secretly runs the world, that sort of thing? Well, then, here's a company for you. The Carlyle Group, a Washington, D.C., buyout firm, is one of the nation's largest defense contractors. It has billions of dollars at its disposal and employs a few important people. Maybe you've heard of them: former Secretary of State Jim Baker, former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, and former White House budget director Dick Darman. Wait, we're just getting warmed up. William Kennard, who recently headed the FCC, and Arthur Levitt, who just left the SEC, also work for Carlyle. As do former British Prime Minister John Major and former Philippines President Fidel Ramos. Let's see, are we forgetting anyone? Oh, right, former President George Herbert Walker Bush is on the payroll too."
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=206684

Arms Buildup Enriches Firm Staffed by Big Guns
January 10, 2002

"President George W. Bush's father works for Carlyle; so does former Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci, whose close friend Donald H. Rumsfeld now runs the Pentagon; and so does a stellar cast of retired generals and Cabinet secretaries, including former Secretary of State James A. Baker III."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-011002carlyle.story

Carlyle's Way
January 8, 2002

"Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III, and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has become unexpectedly important."
http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html

Bush, bin Laden and the Carlyle Group
November 10, 2001

"I hate conspiracy theories, but the saga of the Bush and bin Laden
families' relationship through the Carlyle Group is fascinating
and largely undisputed."
http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2001/RRE.Summary.Carlyle.Grou.html