Army post candidate has ties to Carlyle

[Fenris]

President Bush was widely reported last week to be on the verge of nominating local boy Francis Harvey to serve as secretary of the Army. So let's meet the man who may soon be the newest player in the top ranks of the military-industrial complex.

Harvey, a Los Gatos resident, sits on the board of Bridge Bank of Silicon Valley and is a member of the board of regents of Santa Clara University. But it's a safe bet that neither of these gigs placed him in the running for the Army's senior civilian post.

More likely, it was Harvey's ties to the defense industry and the influential Carlyle Group that won him the Bush administration's favor.

Carlyle is a high-power Washington investment firm that counts among its leaders and advisers former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, former Secretary of State James Baker and, until last year, former President George H.W. Bush, who happens to be the father of the current president.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/11/BUGMD7IR071.DTL

[nodictators]

1. And GW Bush was on the board of CaterAir, a Carlyle Company,

from 1990 to 1994.

Seems he didn't do much for his pay except to tell dirty jokes.