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I seriously doubt the investment group is going to sue IBM.
Not if this particular member has any say in it. He's got too much stock at stake in IBM.

What exactly are these 'significant financial motivations'??

Come on seriously????

You want abhorrent? The US is attacked by terrorists from Saudi Arabia, with support from with in Saudi Arabia, inspired to action, in part, by an oppresive Saudi government. The response is a US invasion of...Iraq.

Can you seriously say money had no effect on the US response to 9/11?

Do you REALLY mean to say that if Osama Bin Laden had donated money to George Bush's campaign, the US wouldn't have bothered responding to 9/11?

As crazy as it sounds, isn't that exactly what has happened? I mean, I know it sounds really, really crazy, but let's look at the facts.

Terrorists from Saudi Arabia, with money from people from Saudi Arabia, inspired by the abuses of the Saudi government, attack the US, kill thousands of people.

The US responds by invading...Iraq?? While the president frolics and holds hands (literally) with the oppressive leaders of Saudi Arabia?

Saddam is on trial, Osama is a free man. I think anyone who says the US government took part in the 9/11 attacks, or at least allowed them to happen, to get public support for expanded executive powers is crazy.

But you're equally nuts if you think money had no effect on the US response to 9/11.

Instead of port security, the feds do Marine Infrastructure Recovery Program (MIRP), and SSA Marine - a major port handler announces awhile back it is moving its HQ from Seattle, WA, (USA) to Arizona (USA), presumably to be better positioned for any possibility of port operations in Mexico, when the NAFTA Super Highway gets built; and

While the Carlyle Group, several years ago purchased Trenstar, Inc., which has expertise in RFIDs with regard to container shipping, while the US-Oman Free Trade Agreement was recently passed, making legal foreign ownership of the ports.....see something suspicious going on here?????

Those figures seem a little low, especially if you consider the Bush family together. But even Bush himself is worth more than that since one deal got him some $13 million. But the Bush family is likely worth a whole lot more. Perhaps it's not as much as the Kerry's (estimated assets of $1 billion), but if you consider the Bush family ties to the Carlyle Group and the many other business relationships from which they benefitted, then their combined wealth would be much more comparable than a paltry $6mill.
And Cheney is definitely on the high end of that range that you stated, especially if you include his continued stock holdings and options in Halliburton.