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15. Not "to Be", but...

Reply to rhett o rick (Reply #13)

Sun Mar 16, 2014, 09:55 PM

Mar 2014

"The Powers that be."

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Know your BFEE: CARLYLE Group 'bound by the thread of turning government secrets into profits' [View all] Octafish Mar 2014 OP

k & r & thanks. n/t wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #1

Ditto to the above & to Grasswire's addition below. Jackpine Radical Mar 2014 #5

Bush and Cheney Octafish Mar 2014 #8

right. wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #12

That's why LIHOP. Enthusiast Mar 2014 #20

this grasswire Mar 2014 #2

Clapper was a Booz Allen man? Reallly? Rex Mar 2014 #3

James Woolsey, too. Octafish Mar 2014 #4

Wow, these mega crooks are all so well connected. Rex Mar 2014 #30

KnR! Holly_Hobby Mar 2014 #6

Poppy Bush Octafish Mar 2014 #10

There was a peace dividend hootinholler Mar 2014 #21

K&R. nt OnyxCollie Mar 2014 #7

Is the NSA Blackmailing Its Overseers In Washington? Octafish Mar 2014 #24

R#21 & K for my indefaiguable Oct, but whenever "Carlyle" is cited I remind that UTUSN Mar 2014 #9

War Party is Buy Partisan Octafish Mar 2014 #25

k and r for depressing my evening further. niyad Mar 2014 #11

The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld Octafish Mar 2014 #28

I believe that The Carlyle Group/NSA/CIA are "The Powers To Be". nm rhett o rick Mar 2014 #13

Not "to Be", but... ReRe Mar 2014 #15

I accept that correction. rhett o rick Mar 2014 #16

I meant it respectfully. ReRe Mar 2014 #18

And I took it that way. rhett o rick Mar 2014 #19

'Big Secret' Behind CIA Spying on Congress: 'Rogue Government' Controlled by US Intelligence Octafish Mar 2014 #23

K&R ReRe Mar 2014 #14

The Safari Club Milieu: George H.W. Bush, Theodore Shackley, and BCCI Octafish Mar 2014 #29

Let me see if my memory serves me... ReRe Mar 2014 #32

Clark Clifford Octafish Mar 2014 #34

That's him... ReRe Mar 2014 #35

As always, thank you for the OP. nm rhett o rick Mar 2014 #17

Not even Ian Fleming dared dream S.P.E.C.T.R.E. would hijack the US Government Octafish Mar 2014 #31

Weren't the Carlyle Group holding an investors meeting on 9/11? RandiFan1290 Mar 2014 #22

With Bushes and Bin Ladens in attendance, none the less. nt Democracyinkind Mar 2014 #26

They most certainly were. Octafish Mar 2014 #36

"A rich man makes a bonny traitor." - Paine nt raouldukelives Mar 2014 #27

Paine thought ''regimes become corrupt when the propertied rich manipulate the laws.'' Octafish Mar 2014 #37

One thing to keep in mind is the access granted snowden Jesus Malverde Mar 2014 #33

It's why the rich get richer and richer. Octafish Mar 2014 #38

K&R + a link to another informative thread that could use some input from DUers when it comes to the bobthedrummer Mar 2014 #39

Thank yoyu, Octafish. JDPriestly Feb 2015 #40

You are most welcome, my Friend! Octafish Feb 2015 #41