BAE Whitewash: `With Obama as President, What Did You Expect?'

February 7, 2010 (LPAC)—A senior U.S. intelligence official, queried yesterday on the BAE plea bargain deal by the Department of Justice, simply responded: "With Obama as President, what did you expect?" The source elaborated that the whitewash was all-but-certain, without a top-down Presidential intervention, to bust up the entire U.S. dirty alliance with the Anglo-Saudi apparatus, behind the Al Yamamah slush fund. The official emphasized that the very existence of the British Empire hangs in the balance with the continued coverup of the offshore black operations program. "Al Yamamah is crucial to the entire British strategic planning." He further explained that the Obama Administration is courting the Saudis and they have "no political will to admit the Saudis are a major problem." Had the investigation gotten into the details of how Prince Bandar spent some of the BAE bribe money, the whole 9/11 can of worms would have been opened up, "and nobody in this Administration is at all interested in revisiting that embarrassment."

In London, top-level Blairites, including Lord Goldsmith, were jumping in line to praise the BAE deal, citing it as the first American-style plea agreement ever struck by the Serious Fraud Office. The British press universally gloated that the plea deal on false reporting, not on bribery, meant that BAE Systems would still be allowed to bid on defense contracts in both the United States and Britain. Even the London Guardian, which broke the BAE bribery story in 2003, and claimed credit for the prosecution, lionized the American and British prosecutors—Mark Mendelsohn and Richard Alderman—for their "successful" prosecution of BAE. In all of their coverage of the BAE Al Yamamah scandal, the Guardian never delved into the offshore slush fund for global covert operations, even after the semi-authorized biography of Prince Bandar boasted about the secret black operations program.