According to the website www.waynemadsenreport.com, Charles W. (Bill) White has written an open letter to Patrick Fitzgerald, dated November 1, 2005, advising that he has evidence debunking the Bush administration claims that the indictment of Libby, alone, is evidence of an isolated incidence by a roque administration official. He further goes on to provide details about how both Bush administrations have a sordid history of launching brutal attacks against uncorrupt Americans when the Bushes believe that their political ambitions are in jeopardy.
He describes how he stumbled upon illegal dealings with the Bush family, the Saudis and the Israelis in the mid to late 1980's involving the "laundering of Bin Ladin money".
Bill White was a business associate of James Bath (Bush II's Texas Air National Guard and business partner) and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in the same class as Oliver North. He provided much more detail of his experience with the Bush's past Saudi involvement in an interview with the Canadian Broadcast Company in 2003.
Charles W.(Bill) White
P.O. Box 130241, Houston, Texas 77219
November 1, 2005
Patrick J. Fitzgerald, Special Counsel
Bond Federal Building
1400 New York Ave. NW, 9th floor
Washington, D.C. 20530
Re: Open Letter
Dear Mr. Fitzgerald,
I am writing to advise you that I have evidence that debunks Bush administration claims that your indictment of Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff is evidence that the outing of CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame was not a conspiracy, but rather an isolated incident carried out by a rouge administration official. I am living proof that both Bush administrations have a sordid history of launching brutal attacks against uncorrupt Americans when the Bushes believe that their political ambitions are in jeopardy. Based on my experience, I can assure you that what the Bush administration did in the Wilson/Plame matter amounts to little more than "business as usual".
As your investigation into the CIA agent outing matter so aptly demonstrates, the Bush Administration routinely employs its intelligence agencies' 3-Ds tactic to cover up when neutral parties stumble upon their dealings. They "Deny" involvement even when confronted with incontrovertible evidence, they attempt to "Discredit" the source of the truthful information, and finally, they attempt to "Divert" attention to some unrelated matter. They hide their activities behind the smoke screen of "national security" whenever an outsider gets too close while access, money and self-serving leaking are used to intimidate and control the news media.
I became a target of this methodology when I stumbled upon illegal dealings between the Bush family, the Saudis and the Israelis in the mid to late 1980's. My former business partner, CIA cutout and W. Bush crony James R. Bath got himself in hot water when he misappropriated over a half million dollars from the Bin Laden family, for whom he served as trustee. Discovery in the litigation threatened to unearth bank records showing the laundering of Bin Laden money through Houston banks, the funneling of funds to Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, and Bath's diversion of Bin Laden money to W. Bush. Politically influenced members of both the Federal and State judiciary who were trying these cases never compelled production of the incriminating banking records or permitted the cases to go to trial. Instead, the compromised judges disposed of the cases by awarding Bath and Bush's bank "death penalty" sanctions and striking my pleadings. I lost my income, my business, my home, my family and nearly all of my personal property because I steadfastly refused to participate in the cover-up. The Harris County District Attorney's office was unwilling to go after the Bushes or the Saudis while FBI, Comptroller of the Currency, and FINCEN investigations were stopped dead in their tracks by Bush political appointees.
Time Magazine reported on one facet of this story in its October 1990 article reporting accusations that W. Bush engaged in insider trading when he dumped his Harken Energy stock just before the price nosedived. The Manhattan District Attorney's office followed up Time's investigation by bringing charges against Saudi banker Sheikh Khalid Bin Mahfouz (National Commercial Bank) in the BCCI banking scandal matter. Still, the full story has never been told. Opportunistic judges, who were all-too-willing to ingratiate themselves with the Bush family, covered up for them while complicit lawyers have been rewarded by Bush administration appointments to judgeships and prestigious, career-enhancing positions within governmental agencies.
There is no telling how many others have been the victims of the two Bush Administrations' abuse. While the President blithely dismisses his conduct as "just politics", the unsavory conduct routinely engaged in by he and his staff is making a mockery of our Constitution, diminishing the stature of the United States as the world's "good-guy" and threatening the legitimacy of the rule of law in America. The ability of our Country to survive the damage done by the Bush administration may well depend upon the outcome of your investigation. I sincerely hope that the Office of Special Counsel will be able to rid the Bush White house of each and every occupant who routinely engages in malicious character assassination and stand ready to provide you with any and all evidence in my possession that you deem relevant to your investigation.
Yours truly,
Bill White
Enclosures:
BinLaden trust agreement
Time Magazine article
BinMahfouz indictment
Cc: Office of the Manhattan District Attorney
In an interview with the Canadian Broadcast Corporation White provides more details:
...Well Bath explained to me that he had been tapped by George Senior to set up a quasi private aircraft firm that would basically engage in CIA-sponsored activities funded by the Saudi Royal Family. He explained that the Saudis had basically entered into a quid pro quo relationship with Bush and that Bush when he was CIA Director worked with the Head of Saudi Intelligence and they trained the Palace Guard to protect the Saudi Royal Family who was concerned about a fundamentalist revolution.
And it was at that point I think that this thing got kicked into high gear and the Saudis agreed to provide surreptitious funding to the United States to fight secret wars in Afghanistan and Nicaragua on the one hand and Bush as Vice President then sent AWACS and F-Fifteen Fighter Jets to Saudi Arabia to support Saddam Hussein under the psyche that the enemy is my friend. We had the Iran-Iraq War at the time. And so that's, that's really how it evolved.
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ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT, DID YOU SEE BATH IN HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GEORGE BUSH SENIOR AND GEORGE W. BUSH?
Yes, I did. It was very limited. The Bushes made a point of never interfacing personally with the Saudis. It was always done with a wink and a nod.
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HAVE YOU SEEN IT AFFECT THE PRESIDENT'S PERFORMANCE, DO YOU BELIEVE?
Oh I feel certain it's affected his performance and just hearing about the Bin Laden family members in this Country who were flown out of the Country and he fact that the Administration blocked the FBI and IA investigations into the Bin Laden family under the auspices of - oh gee the family are all patriotic citizens except for this one bad apple Osama - I mean I just have a hard time buying off on that and wondering if the money that changed hands back during my experiences with Bath hasn't influenced or clouded or even compromised the President's ability to wage War against Terrorism. I just can't imagine how he can be an objective arbitrator of the Bin Laden family's activities when in fact he's taken money from them that's never been reported publicly and I think he's compromised. And that's of great concern to me. And I think that's a great concern to the families of the victims of the Nine-Eleven tragedy.
HOW DIFFICULT HAS JIM BATH MADE THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS FOR YOU?
Well, when Bath and I first had our conversation of his request that I cooperate in a cover-up, he said you've got a choice. He said you can either do this voluntarily or the Bank that's laundering the Saudi money and I are going to inundate you in frivolous lawsuits and we're going to make your life a goddamn living hell. Those were his exact words and he said now I know you being Mom and Apple Pie think that America's about truth and justice but that's nothing but a bunch of horse petui. He said if we sue you, number one you're not going to have money to pay the lawyers to defend yourself against these lawsuits and number two in the unlikely event that you could ever get legal representation, all it would take is a call from George Bush to these Republican Judges who are beholding to him his political appointees and he said you'll never get a chance to tell this story to a Jury. You'll never even get a day in Court.
HE QUOTES THE NAME OF GEORGE BUSH -
Oh absolutely.
SENIOR OR JUNIOR?
Senior. He said that he would call the political appointed Judges and I would never get due process. And that really is what motivated me to fight the fight in the courts because I couldn't believe in the aftermath of all of us risking our lives fighting for the system that we could be denied our Rights of Due Process under Law. I just couldn't believe that. And, and unfortunately I thought it was a bluff, but it turned out to be true because what what he predicted is precisely what happened.
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WHEN GEORGE BUSH SENIOR WAS REPLACED AS DIRECTOR OF THE CIA, WHERE DID HE GO ...?
He came to Houston and he became affiliated with a Bank in Houston called FIB, First International Bank. And that was, that was the bank that Bath used to deposit the Saudi money. That's where the Bin Laden revolving line of credit was. The name changed in nineteen eighty to First International Bank from FIB but it was the same bank.
AND YOU SAY HE WAS CONNECTED WITH THIS BANK. WHAT WAS GEORGE BUSH SENIOR'S INTEREST ..?
He was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bank.
SO THAT'S MORE THAN CONNECTED.
Well, more than connected. Yeah.
FUNDAMENTAL ROLE.
He was the principal player.
SO NO COINCIDENCE AS FAR AS YOU'RE CONCERNED THAT THE SAUDI MONEY AND THE MONEY THAT BATH'S DOING BUSINESS WITHIN, ENDS UP AT GEORGE BUSH SENIOR'S BANK.
No this is no coincidence at all. This is all arranged. It was all arranged at the time that Bush made this quid pro quo relationship with the Saudis. I mean, my understanding of it is that Bath represented the Bush interests and Bin Laden-Bin Mahfouz interchangeably represented the Saudi Royal Family interests and people tried to vilify the Bin Laden family or the Bin Mahfouz family but, they have a very patriarchal society over there according to Bath and neither of those families sneeze without the Saudi Royals' blessing. I mean everything they do is at the beholding at the Saudi Royal Family. As a matter of fact, Bin Mahfouz' Bank NCB is the only Bank that was not nationalized in Saudi Arabia. All the rest of the Banks were not, nationalized in seventy-four except his Bank which is privately owned. That's where the Saudi Royals keep all their personal money.
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The Intelligence committees investigated these CIA activities and they issued a stinging report and said that it incompatible for a Democratic Government of a Republic to be engaged in these KGB type activities. And so what Bush did as CIA Director, rather than just you know terminate these activities he said let's privatize them. And so he began to look for people that could form quasi public or private corporations that would take control of these assets but still do the CIA's bidding and he obviously needed an Aviation guy and he went to his Son who was in an Aviation Squadron. All the Pilots like myself had top-secret security clearances, were clearly patriots, they've been vetted by the FBI and so he asked W. You know is there a guy down there who we could bring in to operate an Air proprietary deal with the Saudis. And so George recommended his drinking buddy, Jim Bath.
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they began to offer me money and Banking business, and a package worth millions of dollars if I would only sign what they called a Settlement Agreement. But I explained to my Lawyer, when the Settlement Agreement in my eyes it was a hush money agreement. It said basically that we could never have this conversation that we could never disclose the Bush-Saudi relationship and I felt to take that money and to sign that Agreement would have been to basically spit on the graves of all of my friends who died in Vietnam and were fighting for you know our, our Oath to protect the Constitution. So it's been a heavy price but I really feel like some of us have a destiny and for whatever reason I didn't choose this destiny but I was thrust in it and I'm trying to do my part to get the truth out. And again there's no really, no ill will toward Jim Bath or to George Bush. It's just a matter of getting the truth out on the table and let the consequences evolve. But I think the truth's important.
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WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE ESSENTIAL RELEVANCE OF WHAT YOU KNOW AND WHAT YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH, AND WHAT'S GOING ON NOW?
I don't believe that Bush as President can be an objective arbitrator of the war on terrorism. The Bin Ladens and the Saudis are obviously involved, fifteen of the nineteen terrorists were Saudis. The Saudis are known to have been funding these Islamic charities that have funded the Terrorists including the National Commercial Bank. The same people that were dealing business with Bath at Bush's request and funding Bush's business interests. Bush moved heaven and earth obviously calling in chips with Houston Judges to keep this information kept quiet and the Saudis are in an ideal position basically to blackmail the President of the United States and to quash any investigation into their activities, funding of Islamic charities because of the fact that they've had Bush on the payroll back in the late seventies and early eighties. I can tell you in the Military that if you know any potential conflict of interest you won't get a security clearance because you're subject to that type of blackmail. We have somebody in the Oval Office who's subject to blackmail. That disturbs me. And that's why it's relevant.
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TO WHAT EXTENT WERE YOU PART OF THIS SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SAUDIS? HOW OFTEN WOULD YOU SEE THEM? UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES? CAN YOU DESCRIBE HOW THEY, HOW THEY ACTED PERSONALLY, PRIVATELY?
Oh, yes I can. Salem Bin Laden was very gregarious. He was very Westernized. He wore Western clothing, very articulate, spoke English well. And he was a gad-fly, an international playboy. He would buzz into town with an entourage and he would have a party over at the Big House and a lot of the big business men, attorneys in Houston would come to these parties. And he would entertain. He'd play the piano. He'd sing. Have cocktails and it was quite interesting. There was some unseemly contact as well. I think one occasion one of my secretaries came into work about an hour and a half late and she told me that Jim Bath had called her at eleven o'clock at night and said that Salem Bin Laden was at the hotel and he was lonesome and would she go over and entertain him for a while. And, then he would take the Arabs to Las Vegas and arrange for prostitutes and things like that. I was fortunately never part of the unseemly side of it but I did interface with him directly
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He said I'm going to George Bush and I and the banker are going to compel you to basically steal money from your own companies and partnerships to cover up my theft of the Saudi money. And I said you're telling me you're going to use the Court system to compel an innocent person to commit a felony? That's why I thought it was a bluff. I couldn't believe it. But that's what he said he was going to do. Bush called the Judges and I'd never get a day in Court. I couldn't believe it.
NOW WHEN YOU SAY BUSH CALLED IN IOU'S FOR THE JUDGES -
Right.
DO YOU HAVE ANY DIRECT EVIDENCE CONDUCTED BY HIM IN ANY OF THOSE?
No.