Monday, January 26, 2004
Remember This Name:
"Georges Krammer".0 comments
As reported in a potentially Pulitzer Prize-winning follow-up in The Dallas Morning News to the original reports in Le Figaro, Mr. Georges Krammer is an extremely dangerous man, standing on a worldwide stage.
The Bush administration is nervous, and Shadow President Dick Cheney, I imagine, is watching this with a bead or two of sweat.
For Mr. Krammer, you see, is an international corporate exec who got caught, and when he turned to his compadres in the corporate world to get him out of the jam he was in, they turned their backs on him, making him the fallguy, and rather an unknown person.
Horrifically short-sighted planning on their parts, we must add.
This Georges Krammer fellow is now extremely pissed off, and is prepared to go postal on his former corporate cronies in an international investigation which, while beginning in France, threatens to engulf major financial players on three, maybe four, continents. Since this concerns bribes and kickbacks in a multi-billion dollar project in Nigeria which could possibly lead all the way to the feet of the U.S. vice president, this investigation threatens to ensnarl the whole Bush administration in unwanted press reports, just in time for its re-election campaign.
And for you geography and/or SOTU fans:
No, it wasn't Nigeria where Cheney got CIA Chief George J. Tenet to send Ambassador Joseph Wilson in an attempt to buttress their story about Saddam Hussein's alleged purchases of uranium from last year's State of the Union speech.
That was Niger.
posted by Gotham 5:12 PM
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