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FrontPage magazine.com :: Moore Distortions in Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Isikoff & Mark Hosenball: "But unmentioned in 'Fahrenheit/911,' or in the Lehane responses, is a considerable body of evidence that cuts the other way. The idea that the Carlyle Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of some loosely defined 'Bush Inc.' concern seems hard to defend. Like many similar entities, Carlyle boasts a roster of bipartisan Washington power figures. Its founding and still managing partner is David Rubenstein, a former top domestic policy advisor to Jimmy Carter. Among the firm'ss senior advisors is Thomas 'Mack' McLarty, Bill Clinton's former White House chief of staff, and Arthur Levitt, Clinton's former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. One of its other managing partners is William Kennard, Clinton's chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Spokesman Ullman was the Clinton-era spokesman for the SEC.

As for the president's own Carlyle link, his service on the Caterair board ended when he quit to run for Texas governor -- a few months before the first of the Saudi contracts to the unrelated BDM firm was awarded. Moreover, says Ullman, Bush 'didn't invest in the [Caterair] deal and he didn't profit from it.' (The firm was a big money loser and was even cited by the campaign of Ann Richards, Bush's 1994 gubernatorial opponent, as evidence of what a lousy businessman he was.)

Most importantly, the movie fails to show any evidence that Bush White House actually has intervened in any way to promote the interests of the Carlyle Group. "