Richard Holbrooke

Modern Day Robber Barons (and other crooks) in the government!

Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago

... W Bush, Donna Shalala (after leaving the Clinton cabinet) and former State Department offical Richard Holbrooke . The discounts amounted to a few hundred dollars to a couple of thousand dollars. Dodd has claimed that he didn't know he was getting a discount. Countrywide didn't tell him, according to the Senator, who is chairman of the Banking Committee . See also - in the Wall Street...

Russian Claims of Privileged Sphere Draw Criticism

Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

... its neighbors,” wrote two former Clinton administration diplomats in a Washington Post commentary. Richard Holbrooke, now a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, negotiated the Dayton Peace Accords for Bosnia; Ronald Asmus, former deputy assistant secretary of state, is with the German Marshall Fund in Brussels.“PRIVILEGED INTERESTS”Despite disclaimers that Russia...

Karadzic wants access to evidence on alleged deal

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

... prosecutors to turn over any material they have about a deal he claims he made with U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke in July 1996.Karadzic said in the motion that the deal promised he would not face prosecution if he "agreed to withdraw completely from public life." He claims the deal is relevant to his case because Holbrooke made it on behalf of the U.N. Security Council - the...

Karadzic wants access to evidence on alleged deal

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

... prosecutors to turn over any material they have about a deal he claims he made with U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke in July 1996.

Karadzic said in the motion that the deal promised he would not face prosecution if he "agreed to withdraw completely from public life."

He claims the deal is relevant to his case because Holbrooke made it on behalf of the U.N. Security...

Idle Cabinet Speculation

Minipundit (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008

Man, CQ's cabinet predictions are depressing. Let's document the atrocities: They put Hank Paulson and Bob Gates on both McCain's and Obama's potential cabinets in their current positions. Joe Lieberman is on McCain's lists for both State and Defense . Obama's list for State is Susan Rice (good), Richard Holbrooke (horrible), and Bill Richardson (WTF?). Obama's list for Treasury...