Civilian on Sub, Marc Rich Linked. “One of the civilians aboard the submarine that sank
a Japanese fishing vessel is related to a Texas
oilman and big Republican Party contributor whose
company once did business with fugitive financier Marc
Rich.” That’s how the New York Daily News played the story. But the real meat is buried several paragraphs further down, IMHO: “Last week, after the Navy refused to release the names
of the civilians aboard the Greeneville…, a Bush
administration source told the Daily News there was a
‘tremendous amount of nervousness at the White House
about who these guys are.’ ” ..because they’re good ol’ Texas oil boys with ties to Bush, it seems! Meanwhile, “investigators are saying the
crew of the submarine Greeneville knew the
doomed Ehime Maru was sailing above them — more
than a full hour before the nuclear attack sub slammed
and sank the fishing vessel”, but that the”crewman who was plotting sonar readings also has
told investigators he was distracted by civilian guests
in the control room and halted his work.”