The Riddle/Bush connection is an entangled series of backroom deals.
Primarily dealing with interior/lumber and mineral rights deals. bush uses a forestry industry partner to set into play a development deal in prime areas of public lands.
Clear small forest tracks as claims to clearing underbrush, use said market entries to access mineral rights under said stretches of land, develop land alongside in the future for sizable markup after that.
Included in this was his Lone Star Trust matters, where he profited off a supposed blind trust by holding interest in a small business company with the Riddles.
Bush interior conflict, small business partners who help influence his policy.
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The most alarming fact is that the Riddle name emerges within the OPM to politicize future civil hires at the OPM. Many of these people may be the oversight of future development deals along the lines of the Previous Lone Star Trust decision.
- NEW TRANSITION DIRECTOR FOR FEDERAL EXECUTIVE INSTITUTE NAMED
Joe Riddle has been chosen to serve as the Transition Director for the Federal Executive Institute, OPM Director Kay Coles James announced last Friday. FEI has served as the federal government’s development center for senior executives for more than 30 years by bringing members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) and high-performing GS-15s together for courses that help them develop their knowledge and skills. In his new position, Riddle will be responsible for assisting OPM in restructuring the institute to improve its operations and to oversee the education of senior managers and supervisors so that they can implement a more "citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-driven federal government." Riddle currently coordinates OPM’s implementation of the President’s Management Agenda and is responsible for developing the agency’s Strategic Plan under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Previously, he was the director of OPM’s SES Learning Center in its Office of Executive Resources Management.
The Riddle name linked to OPM develoment for senior developmentstaffers:
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Of course, persons familiar with the Hunting of the President know the Riddle name took a lead role in supporting and subverting the well being of President Bill Clinton and his direct relatives during the Kenneth Starr inquisitions.
Mike Huckabee helped as a hack who pardoned someone that was part of the program to tar Clinton. The same person had his family receive logistical support directly from the Riddle's payroll of their legal office.
Part of the Riddle collateral crew:
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The same way they went after a popular sitting President, they'll seek to undermine and sabotage future government efficiency through preferenced political appointments at senior staff positions throughout the government. Often times in concert with their own private interests, as Bush has previously done with them.