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Thursday, March 11, 2004
From the Bar©
The Nation recently published an extremely complimentary article about Kerry's political history. They had to do some digging, of course, but they did unearth one or two hopeful examples from the past.The best was Kerry's early 90's investigation into the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a "murky institution more or less controlled by the ruling family of Abu Dhabi." He took quite a few risks in unearthing a scandal that tarnished Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger, among many others:
In the fall of 1992 Kerry released a report on the BCCI affair. It blasted everyone: Justice, Treasury, US Customs, the Federal Reserve ... high-level lobbyists and fixers, and the CIA. The report noted that after the CIA knew the bank was "a fundamentally corrupt criminal enterprise, it continued to use both BCCI and First American...for CIA operations."The man still has many problems with his record, and a personality that makes Queen Victoria look like Roseanne Barr, but he's far from irredeemable.
