September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

Herbert Allen Jr., the world's media elites meet to discuss strategy, possible mergers and editorial
policy. It can only be called a media version of Bilderberg as government, corporate and media
officials are meeting in secret, behind the usual wall of security. "Of all the people in the Bush
Administration, perhaps no one was of more interest to the public last week than CIA Director George
J. Tenet," Rick Ellis wrote (http://www.allyourtv.com, July 16, 2003. "As the center of a whirlwind of
controversy over claims that the agency had made mistakenly allowed President Bush to assert Iraq
had attempted to buy uranium from Niger, Tenet was being sought by everyone from Dateline to
Senate Intelligence Subcommittee. He was talking last week, but it wasn't to the public. He was in Sun
Valley, Idaho, giving a private intelligence briefing to participants of the private (Allen & Company,
Inc.) Media conference. "The annual gathering includes nearly every major player of the world's
media, technology and entertainment industries, and it's a reminder of just how insular, isolated and
powerful the world's media owners are from the billions who consume their products. Organized by
investment banker Herbert Allen, the get-together is a summer camp for Citizen Kane's, a place where
the rich and powerful are able to meet over picnic lunches and fishing streams as they help determine
what you'll be watching for the next few years," Ellis wrote. [SourceWatch: a project of the Center for
Media & Democracy, http://www. sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Herbert_Allen]
(Author’s note: It was the 2002 media meeting at Herbert Allen’s ranch at which the Russian
Khodorkovsky, key owner of Menatep Bank, met with Lord JacobRothschild. Shortly after that
meeting, Khodorkovsky handed over to Rothschild his proxy rights to a 26% controlling interest in
Yukos in an attempt to secure his holdings from reclamation by the Russian government, who contends
that he illegally acquired control of the largest oil company in Russia. It is reported that shortly after
this meeting Khodorkovsky met with Vice President Dick Cheney for private talks. Section 8 of this
report describes how these players are linked to the destruction of the World Trade Center and the
Bush family.)
The breadth of control of these five organizations is demonstrated in Table 8. In dealing
with these five groups - one at a time - one needs to understand the payoff promised to
the industry CEOs by George Bush (and delivered afterwards) prior to his election.
“Shortly after George W. Bush declared his candidacy for president in June of 1999, General Electric
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jack Welch was contacted by Bush political advisor Karl Rove.
Welch later informed associates that Rove told him a Bush administration would initiate
comprehensive deregulation of the broadcast industry. Rove guaranteed that deregulation would be
implemented in a way that would create phenomenal profits for conglomerates with significant media
holdings, like GE. Rove forcefully argued that General Electric and the other media giants had a
compelling financial interest to see Bush become president.” [Democracy, General Electric Style,
David Podvin and Carolyn Kay, October 23, 2001]
The impact of this campaign promise was clearly felt on the election, and subsequent new
reporting. The major networks, led by their respective CEOs and Chairmen, led
Americans to the conclusion the George Bush should be their President. What
Americans experienced in the media, as a result of promise of corporate deregulation,
were stories heavily favoring Bush, illegal calling of the election on TV to influence a
vote, and a cover-up of the independent Florida voting audit result which was intended to
prove that Bush had won legitimately.
“A study produced by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Princeton Survey Research
Associates examined 1,149 stories from 17 news publications, programs and websites. The research
revealed that there were almost twice as many positive stories about Bush as there were about Gore.
Even more important than this blatant pro-Bush bias, the study found that the coverage de-emphasized
the philosophical differences between the candidates. This was critical, because public opinion polls
showed that the voters agreed with Gore on the issues. By robbing Gore of his greatest advantage, the
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