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Friday, April 17, 2009 at 11:21 am
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I wish I wrote this:
I hate to ruin a perfectly nice Friday, but I was just watching Frances Townsend – former Bush administration Homeland Security senior advisor – defending the Bush administration’s torture memos on CNN. “By disclosing these memos, we are handcuffing future administrations,” she says.
No, we need to handcuff past administration’s officials…
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Comment posted April 19, 2009 @ 6:56 am
Spencer, you watched the newest partner at Baker Botts, James A. Baker, III's law firm. Fran was hired to head up their new corporate risk management consulting practice. It's more like malpractice.
Frances Townsend and James Baker created whitewashes for Bush’s crony friends. Fran gave Memorial Hospital a free pass in her Hurricane Katrina Lessons Learned report. That left out Tenet Health’s 10 deaths and LifeCare Hospitals’ 24 patient deaths in Katrina’s aftermath. LifeCare was purchased by The Carlyle Group just weeks before landfall. George W. Bush served on the board of Carlyle affiliate CaterAir in the mid 90’s.
A different Bush landed on the Board of Tenet Health, a year after Fran’s sorry report. Jeb Bush sits at the corporate helm of a chronic ethics abusing for-profit hospital chain.
James A. Baker covered for BP CEO Lord John Browne in Baker’s investigation of 15 deaths at the Texas City BP plant. Shortly thereafter, Browne landed a cush spot at Riverstone Holdings, a Carlyle Group energy joint venture.
Bad government investigations for crony friends? That should sell to Baker Botts clients.
Comment posted April 19, 2009 @ 1:56 pm
Spencer, you watched the newest partner at Baker Botts, James A. Baker, III's law firm. Fran was hired to head up their new corporate risk management consulting practice. It's more like malpractice.
Frances Townsend and James Baker created whitewashes for Bush’s crony friends. Fran gave Memorial Hospital a free pass in her Hurricane Katrina Lessons Learned report. That left out Tenet Health’s 10 deaths and LifeCare Hospitals’ 24 patient deaths in Katrina’s aftermath. LifeCare was purchased by The Carlyle Group just weeks before landfall. George W. Bush served on the board of Carlyle affiliate CaterAir in the mid 90’s.
A different Bush landed on the Board of Tenet Health, a year after Fran’s sorry report. Jeb Bush sits at the corporate helm of a chronic ethics abusing for-profit hospital chain.
James A. Baker covered for BP CEO Lord John Browne in Baker’s investigation of 15 deaths at the Texas City BP plant. Shortly thereafter, Browne landed a cush spot at Riverstone Holdings, a Carlyle Group energy joint venture.
Bad government investigations for crony friends? That should sell to Baker Botts clients.
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