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Date: September 5, 2008 10:42:45 PM PDT
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Subject: Re: Follow the PIPELINE to ABRAMOFF & Co
In a message dated 9/5/2008 7:53:03 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, Das
GOAT writes:
Small world: Greenberg Traurig's Silver ALSO worked as lobbyist for
Stevens; Palin had experience as an officer in one of Stevens' funds-
laundering foundations; and Stevens needed to explain some things to
Palin after discussing the pipeline in Jan? 2007 with certain
Canadians and Dick Cheney ...
Let me explain why it's so illuminating that Ted Stevens met with Dick
Cheney and then with Palin:
Sitting on the Board of Directors of Transcanada --the company Palin's
lobbyists decided should get the Alaska pipeline project in spite of
conditions that drove off other major bidders and despite having to
change those conditions rules especially and only for them-- you will
find
< http://www.transcanada.com/company/board_directors.html#klh >
two men who have long been cronies of Dick Cheney and of the Bush
family:
(1) Texan E. Linn Draper, who sat in on Dick Cheney's "Energy Policy
Task Force" meetings and praised CheneyBush's plan for solving the
energy crisis (of 2001!) --which is now, point for point, John
McCain's and Palin's energy plan <see, e.g., ttp://
seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/23734_energy19.shtml>
(2) Derek H. Burney, Bilderberg member, Kissinger pal, retired Shell
Oil Canada executive, chairman of Conrad Black's CanWest, director of
defense contractors CAE [BAE with an "ey?" at the end] and Garda World
Security, Carlyle Group, and Canadian ambassador to the US under
Bush41 during the time of the first Gulf War. (He's now oversees
Canadian troops in Afghanistan.). James Baker, Robert Zoellick and
Brent Scowcroft speak fondly of him. Neocon, of course. Thank him
for the Canadian part of NAFTA.
Betcha a nickle these were the two men who, with Dick Cheney,
discussed the Alaskan gas pipeline with Ted Stevens, who communicated
what he knew to Gov. Palin and her lobbyist (even Abramoff himself was
always a Neocon at heart), who (surprise!) wound up giving the job to
TransCanada, plus a blank check.
So, this is how the McCain/Palin ticket will topple the monopoly of
the "ol' boy network" in Washington?!.
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