What Did Rick Perry Do At The Bilderberg Conference?

Somehow, we missed this interesting post from the DMN’s Capitol Letters discussing Governor Perry’s recent trip to the Bilderberg Conference:

NOW we know who Gov. Rick Perry was hobnobbing with at this month’s top-secret international meeting of the corporate and political elite known as the Bilderberg Conference. The event was held in Istanbul, Turkey. And the Texas governor was among the invitees this year.

His fellow conference-goers included Henry Kravis, who heads the leading investor group in the $32 billion purchase of TXU. So while the Legislature was debating the deal back home, the governor apparently was with the New York billionaire leading the buyout. TXU is seeking federal approval for the deal. It made headlines during the legislative session, in part because of TXU’s attempt to build more coal-fired generating plants – an effort backed by Mr. Perry.

This is very interesting and deserves more attention than it has thus far received. (And, you can bet there are no photos of the Conference on Governor Perry’s Flickr).

A list of 2007 Bilderberg attendees confirms that both Perry and Kravis were in attendance.

Something very interesting about all of this is that the conspiracy theorists on the blogs seem to be paying special attention to all of this Bilderberg stuff in light of Perry’s attendance and the current insider trading scandal involving the TXU scandal and Credit Suisse Group, which has evidently been involved in Bilderberg events in the past and is involved in the insider trading scandal.  Texas Congressman and GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Surfside) is even claiming Perry should be prosecuted for violations of the Logan Act.

Interesting.

The story is, no doubt, a convoluted one prone to tin-foil-hat theories, but also an interesting one. We’ll keep our eyes and ears open.