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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 06:17 PM
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State Department official and brother queried on Blackwater
Source: Reuters

State Department official and brother queried on Blackwater
Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:43pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department's top
investigator and his brother will both be asked to
testify to a committee of Congress about the brother's
link to the Blackwater security firm, the committee
announced on Friday.

Rep. Henry Waxman decided to call State Department
Inspector General Howard Krongard and his brother A.B.
"Buzzy" to the same hearing after they separately gave
the committee conflicting accounts about Buzzy
Krongard's ties with Blackwater, which protects U.S.
diplomats and other State Department officials in
Iraq.

Earlier this week, Howard Krongard recused himself from
probes into Blackwater after saying that he had just
discovered -- during a break in a hearing of Waxman's
government oversight panel -- that his brother had
attended a meeting of Blackwater's advisory board.

-snip-

"The information from Buzzy Krongard raises serious
questions about the veracity of Howard Krongard's
testimony before the committee. To help answer these
questions, I expect the committee to hold a hearing
immediately after the Thanksgiving recess at which
Howard Krongard and Buzzy Krongard will be invited to
testify."

-snip-

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1640737120071116
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 06:42 PM
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1. Did Howard Krongard Lie about His Not Knowing His Brothers Ties to Blackwater
Sure looks like it. I find it hard to believe that he didn't know.
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dantyrant Donating Member (278 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 11:37 PM
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4. Wikipedia knew of Buzzy Krongard's ties to Blackwater
Hell, *I* knew about his ties to Blackwater. How did he not know?

They're both crooks and both liars. Get em both under oath. I can think of a few questions for Buzzy in particular.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 06:43 PM
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2. Christmas will be tense this year...
When the extended Krongard family gets together.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 08:59 PM
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3. Yes yes y'all!
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-16-07 11:52 PM
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5. K&R. O Henry! Oh Henry Waxman!
K&R.
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 12:02 AM
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6. "Bulldog" Waxman strikes again!
And nailed another cruelly crooked republican monster. I'd bet that telephone call was simply one to tell him there were too many sources of public information and he'd better drop the lie on this one! It would cause more problems than it could fix.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 12:09 AM
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7. Here's a bit more on Alvin, who handled a lot of Halliburton "business"
when he with with Deutsche Bank (Deutsche Bank held 8.3 million shares of Halliburton).

Alvin was with Alex Brown Inc. the US oldest banking investment firm, Alex Brown was "absorbed" by Bankers Trust where Alvin also "worked".

Gee, those are all nice places to conduct black budget networks, destabilization and other spooky things from. And although George Tenet appointed Alvin #3 at the CIA his "association" goes way back.

For example, there are those spooky "old school ties" to consider, especially at Yale. Skull and Bones isn't the only secret society at Yale, there is also The Fence Club aka Psi Upsilon.

Here's a picture from 1960 and in it are former Fence Club members Porter Goss and John Negroponte and yet another Bush, Poppy's little bro William Henry Trotter Bush.
"Quite the club..."
http://www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/qclub.html

In August 2006 Alvin joined the Board of Directors at a privatized ears and eyes in the skies firm-Iridium.
"Alvin B. Krongard Joins Iridium Satellite Board of Directors" 8-9-2006 repost by spacenewsfeed
http://www.spacenewsfeed.co.uk/2006/13August2006_19.html

Yep, follow the money to the domestic enemies of The United States of America and watch it disappear into the BFEE, thanks to loyal brothers like the Krongards.

And finally let's not leave out mentioning Blackwater's Erik Prince's networks in this post, that's useful when connecting these criminal conspiracies that aren't theoretical at all-it's the BFEE.

"The Far Right in West Michigan: Erik Prince" from mediamouse.org
http://www.mediamouse.org/resources/right.php?personId=8



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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 12:54 PM
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8. It's a family affair, kick
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donkeyotay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 04:07 PM
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9. Why, why these are all coincidences. It just LOOKS like
the ultra-patriots who protect us have decided to do a little double dipping but THEY DESERVE IT. In fact, if it weren't for the banksters and the spooks, we wouldn't have a free country, so they've liberated us from both our money and our freedom, but it was for our own good! :sarcasm: Your post deserves it's own thread.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-17-07 09:12 PM
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10. Cookie's lawyer has asked that there be no hearing-so that two brothers won't be alienated-kick
:nuke:
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donkeyotay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-19-07 02:05 PM
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11. Now that's Compassionate Conservatism... or, is it crime family values?
That's a very informative link you posted above. Here's one interesting bit:

article | posted September 21, 2005 (October 10, 2005 issue)
Blackwater Down
Jeremy Scahill

...

After the killing of four Blackwater mercenaries in Falluja in March 2004, Erik Prince hired the Alexander Strategy Group, a PR firm with close ties to GOPers like DeLay. By mid-November the company was reporting 600 percent growth. In February 2005 the company hired Ambassador Cofer Black, former coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department and former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, as vice chairman. Just as the hurricane was hitting, Blackwater's parent company, the Prince Group, named Joseph Schmitz, who had just resigned as the Pentagon's Inspector General, as the group's chief operating officer and general counsel. ...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/scahill/2








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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-19-07 03:42 PM
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12. You got the picture long ago too, donkeyotay
there are no coincidences when it comes to the BFEE-criminals, traitors and domestic enemies of The United States of America that staged a coup and got Bush/Cheney installed--then 9/11 "changed everything"...
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 03:10 PM
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13. kick
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 03:45 PM
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14. .
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-21-07 02:30 PM
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15. another kick
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