{"id":1407,"date":"2003-03-25T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2003-03-25T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-25T23:33:00","slug":"carlyle-group-deny-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/03\/25\/19\/33\/carlyle-group-deny-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlyle Group – Deny Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote about them back in 2001<\/a>, but the Evil Gnomes<\/a> running the Carlyle Group still deny everything<\/a>:
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We’re not,” he nearly shouts, “that well connected!”<\/p>\n

Behind him is a picture of Rubenstein on a plane with then-Gov. George W. Bush. Across the room, a photo of Rubenstein with the president’s father and mother. Next to that, Rubenstein and Mikhail Gorbachev. Elsewhere: Rubenstein and Jimmy Carter. On a bookshelf: Rubenstein and the pope.
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\n“We’ve actually replaced the Trilateral Commission” as the darling of conspiracy theorists, says Rubenstein — who, truth be told, happens to be a member of the Trilateral Commission.<\/p>\n

It didn’t help that as the World Trade Center burned on Sept. 11, 2001, the news interrupted a Carlyle business conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel here attended by a brother of Osama bin Laden. Former president Bush, a fellow investor, had been with him at the conference the previous day.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Earlier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote about them back in 2001, but the Evil Gnomes running the Carlyle Group still deny everything: We’re not,” he nearly shouts, “that well connected!” Behind him is a picture of Rubenstein on...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t