Ex-CIA Director To Speak In Bermuda
Business Bermuda today [Jan. 24] announced former US Central Intelligence Agency director R. James Woolsey will be the keynote speaker at its forthcoming annual general meeting.
Mr. Woolsey [pictured] will speak on the subject of “The Global Web: Security through Interconnectivity” at the February 22 event being held at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess.
The Oklahoma-born foreign policy specialist served as CIA director from 1993 to 1995 under President Bill Clinton and held senior executive branch appointments during the administrations of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Mr. Woolsey is currently a partner with venture capital firm Lux Capital and chairman of Woolsey Partners LLC. He also chairs the board of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
Chairman of the the Strategic Advisory Group of the Washington, D.C. private equity fund, Paladin Capital Group, he is also counsel to the Washington, D.C. office of the Boston-based law firm, Goodwin Procter.
Tickets for the event are $100 each for Business Bermuda members, $150 each for non-members.
Business Bermuda is a non-profit business organisation of Bermuda-resident service providers and international businesses which provide quality banking, insurance, reinsurance, legal, accounting, financial, infrastructure, e-business, trust and management services, and products.
The group works with Bermuda’s international business industry and Government to develop and promote Bermuda as one of the world’s foremost centers for international business.
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hummmmm, can they assist with local security issues? no need to list them….
FBI deals with security issues not CIA. Unless you mean assassination of the heads of parkside, 42nd, mob & any other wannabe gang here. CIA is good at this & won’t get the wrong person like these tit for tat idiots do. Cutting of the heads of the beast to kill the body is quite effective but surely some mommy will shed tears still for the son who drops 50 thousand in her wallet every month.
Mr. Woolsey is a war criminal who should not be welcome on our island. Business Bermuda should be ashamed for attaching their name to his. He was a key facilitator in the illegal war against Iraq, as well as a war profiteer. We should welcome him with an arrest and a trip to the International Criminal Court to stand trial for his crimes.
Bermudians should investigate his background and the atrocities he has been involved in, and organise a ‘welcoming committee’ accordingly.
Indeed he is a war instigator as hitler was but can we blame hitler solely or do we blame the ss & all the others who stood by & watched & let the holocaust happen. If we are to blame the others along with hitler then at present should we blame all who fought against iraq, all prime ministers & presidents who sent their troops to Iraq & how about those who use oil products daily that are procured from Iraq’s occupation. Until the masses have had their fill the war machine will not be stopped.
Agreed for the most part, but that is no excuse not to take action against war criminals when we do see them. By doing nothing we provide them with our passive support.
I know this but do not know how to stop the passive support. I know BELCO used to get its oil from EXXON who profit from Iraqi oil & now if the deal has gone through are getting their oil from BP who have even more ties with iraqi oil than EXXON. I don’t know what percentage of oil used to run Bermuda is actually from Iraq but if any is when I use it I am a passive supporter since this oil is the spoils of war. What do I do walk everywhere & live by candlelight. Not being facetious, I honestly think about this but don’t have a solution that still allows me to compete in a fast paced society & feed my family.
GET OVER IT GIRLS ! You bunch of arm chair critics.
My arm chair is quite comfortable how about your yankee economy? Oh its a bit tight & the bottoms falling out. Not to worry maybe your neighbors Canada “the new super power” will give you a loan.
Keep the personal comments in the arm chair as yankee boy suggests. Woolsley is part of the American machine which we benefit enormously from – a machine that deserves more than receiving pot shots about war criminals and war profiteering. Until Bermudians stop peppering our allies/friends around their ankles, we should consider the big picture – the not such a perfect world reality – and stand by the protectors of the free world and our lifestyle.
Bermudians are so blinkered by their perceived entitlements, that we are collectively ‘peppering’ our allies, our tourists and our International Business friends every day. We attack them in immigration, we attach them in business, we attack them with black power and, of course, we attach them for their beliefs and politics. We are collectively determined to make them uncomfortable. Mr. Starling and Mr. Chong appear to be merely one of the many ‘pepperers’ determined to destroy strong relationships that fundamentally make Bermuda successful by peppering them enough that they will go away.
Business Bermuda and Bermuda’s reputation as a whole will benefit from hosting and learning from people such as Woolsey who are extremely accomplished and high profile. We are privileged that he will even visit our shores.
OHHHH PLEASE SPARE ME!!!! The reason International Businesses are named that is because they are exactly that international not American. What makes you think your entitled to your opinions & we’re not. Get off your high horses & get back to the reality that America is not the super power it used to be & realize that any companies they have “INTERNATIONAL SHARES” in are not pulling out because of reading a comment on bernews they are pulling out because they can’t afford to operate here. Though thanks for the credit of us being sooooo powerful our words could topple international industries but I wouldn’t bet on it. Besides we are not, “peppering” America we are “peppering” a individual American citizen. If Bermuda had invited Steve Jobs when he was still around my comments would have been a 110 percent more hospitable but woolsley will not feel the love from me. Not all but some Americans look down on Bermudians when they should recognize that without Bermuda the Jamestown settlement would have never survived, they would have been at a great disadvantage in WW2 without their base allowed in Bermuda, they would have not been able to grow in the IB market & they would have had to find somewhere else to send the Uyghurs they wrongfully imprisoned.