Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle GroupBy Dan Briody.The Carlyle Group is an investment consortium of international financiers and top level political figures who use their influence to obtain highly profitable U.S. government contracts. Their affiliated companies specialize in war production but also include construction projects for rebuilding from the aftermath of war. Profit in, profit out. This book traces the unsavory history of this group and shows yet one more reason that the Bush Administration – which has close ties to Carlyle investors such as George H.W. Bush, James Baker, Donald Rumsfeld, Frank Carlucci, Paul Wolfowitz, and even King Fahd, king of Saudi Arabia – pursues a war policy that is not wanted by the American people but highly profitable to the Carlyle Group. Paperbound, 210 pages. |