Perle Quits Pentagon Advisory Panel

[doxieone]

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/Investigation/perle_resignation_040225.html

W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 25— A controversial associate of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has resigned from his seat on a key Pentagon advisory panel, ABCNEWS has learned.

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Whhhooooaaaaaa....ohhhhhh take the money and run!!!!!

Clap, Clap, Clap ,Clap!!!

[Bozita]

2. He's gonna sue news organizations -- haha

from the link:

And his attorney, Samuel Abeday, told ABCNEWS today Perle is quitting the board altogether so he can sue the news organizations that "falsely accused him of conflicts of interest."

[lovedems]

6. ROTFLMAO!

I also found that quite humerous! This guy is a dope.

[Stephanie]

27. Bring it on!!

Discovery in THAT case is going to be a hoot!

[Judi Lynn]

3. Hope it starts a neo-con trend.

Does anyone think he was asked to leave?

It's not like we'll miss him.

Thanks for the great news! :hi:

[catzies]

4. About frickin time

Last summer when he got popped for conflict of interest (as highlighted in The New Yorker), all he did was give up the chairmanship of the DPB when they shoulda kicked him completely out.

But nooooooo, they had to wait until he wanted to quit? Is some more shit about to hit and this is pre-emptive??? Inquiring DUers want to know! :bounce:

[BadGimp]

5. bout frickin time

what gives?

:tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat:

[kysrsoze]

38. He's only quitting b/c he's now getting it from all sides

First, he has the obvious conflict of interest. Secondly, I read a story where the OSP is being investigated for manipulating Pentagon/CIA intelligence. He's getting out while the getting is good. Of course, it won't matter if we can ever get the case heard in court.

[Sugarbleus]

49. That sounds about right, Ky. I read some nasty stuff about OSP

I posted what I found and it was appalling. Perle was on KGO the other night w/ ray T. The interview was painful to listen to as Ray kept asking pointed questions; I could just see ("through the radio") Perle SWEATING as the questions got too close for comfort.

Do these neocons really think that their dirty deeds will never be found out???

I STILL cannot fathom why on earth the Bush admin hasn't been impeached yet! While we wait to kick his butt out, he continues to tinker with the constitution and appoint weird judges and cut this and that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! By the time he's gone, we'll have nothing left that resembles what we've come to love and appreciate in America.
:wtf:

[UpInArms]

7. this rabid piece of shit

should never have received a position within our government nor a moment's credibility.

Yesterday's departure would have been too late to stop all the evil that this thing has loosed upon our world.

A pox on Richard Perle and any offspring that may come from him.

[historian]

13. amen make that a triple pox

[fearnobush]

8. Perle is quitting the board so he can sue the news organization.

"We are now approaching a long presidential election campaign, in the course of which issues on which I have strong views will be widely discussed and debated," Perle wrote. "I would not wish those views to be attributed to you or the President at any time, and especially not during a presidential campaign." Too late fucker!!! the OSP and the dark empire must fall...

I think this statement below sums up the money Bush admin. We ought to sue him. But will Bush on lawsuit crack down laws until Pearl gets his big bucks?
<snip>
And his attorney, Samuel Abeday, told ABCNEWS today Perle is quitting the board altogether so he can sue the news organizations that "falsely accused him of conflicts of interest."

[maveric]

44. Isn't suing corporations an unamerican/liberal act?

And with all those evil trial lawyers.....
Fucking Nazi hypocrite!

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Holy cow, something must be up?

The last few lines of this report are very interesting:


And his attorney, Samuel Abeday, told ABCNEWS today Perle is quitting the board altogether so he can sue the news organizations that "falsely accused him of conflicts of interest."

He's leaving so he can sue people for telling the truth?


Abeday also said the Defense Department's inspector general conducted a thorough investigation that "exonerated Perle 100 percent."

What friggin's investigation? Oh please, Rummie exonerated him a 100 percent? If that is true, then everyone in command at DOD should be removed from power.


The Defense Policy Board has no actual authority but advises Pentagon leaders on defense policy matters.

This is the funniest line in the whole thing. If Perle had no authority then why was he allowed to appear on TV on numerous occasions and speak for the president when he pushed his PNAC agenda?

[saltpoint]

10. Hit the road, Jack

And don't you come back
No more no more no more no more.

[arcane1]

11. good, lock up that evil son of shit

:grr:

[name not needed]

12. yeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa!

[librechik]

21. cute grr! n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. It's just a panel though

meant to stem the controversy.

But he is still around.

[Leilani]

60. Exactly!

He's just keeping a low profile for campaign season.

As long as Dubya is president, these neocons will still run the show.

[jackstraw45]

15. Can you spell....

G-R-A-N-D J-U-R-Y ? ? ? ?

I thought you could....

[grytpype]

16. Now if only he would start telling the truth.

Think that's gonna happen anytime soon?

Me neither.

[proud patriot]

17. :-)

Buh-bye

[POed_Ex_Repub]

18. Ahhh... made his money, now cashing in his chips

It's the Bush/Cheney mantra, declare victory and leave the mess behind.

[saltpoint]

19. Oh yeah -- he HAD to step down from the panel --

-- to play Dr. Octopus for the upcoming SpiderMan sequel.

[spanone]

20. Witness Protection Plan.....he's a freakin' criminal

[UpInArms]

26. there is no disguise that could be imagined

to cover the evil on this face

[Dover]

41. That should be the Joker in the deck

.......

[DianeG5385]

22. Can we subpoena him now???

Can we get at the truth?

[BeatleBoot]

23. The rats are jumping from the ship...

[0007]

36. One big stinky slimmy rat

[jenk]

24. Abandon Ship!!!!

[Stephanie]

25. Unbelievable!!! Like RATS from a SINKING SHIP.

Let this be the FIRST of MANY. Let's ride the neo-cons out on a rail!

Wooo Hoooo!!

:toast:

[amber dog democrat]

28. One Down...

This is great news. Good riddance. Maybe soon it will be more than just a trickle of defecting rats.

[Ernesto]

29. Yes the portion of fical matter is rounding out his "career"

He has written the recent (unpopular) book. He opportunisticaly provided a failed, extreme geo-political view to a dim witted, foriegn- policy challenged illegitimate white house inhabitant. Now he is going to show us all that we "won't have richard perle to kick around anymore".... truly pathetic

[UTUSN]

30. "no actual authority" Except for Killing Our Kids

Oh, he don't want Shrub to be blamed for any extreme wingnutism.

[Bozita]

31. Perle's got legal problems over his Hollinger "work"

http://slate.msn.com/id/2095759 /

Richard Perle Libel Watch, 20 Days to Expiration
In Week 49 of the libel watch, the Hollinger investigation shines its light on Perle.
By Jack Shafer
Posted Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004, at 11:06 AM PT

How in hell's name can Richard Perle fulfill his promise to sue Seymour M. Hersh for libeling him in The New Yorker with the Hollinger International scandal widening and sucking up his time? The Times of London reports today that the internal investigation of Hollinger "is said to be now looking" at Hollinger board member Richard Perle's alleged failure to disclose to shareholders $3 million worth of bonuses for running a Hollinger investment project. One of the beneficiaries of the Hollinger investments was Trireme Partners ($2.5 million), the venture capital firm managed by Perle and probed by Hersh in his New Yorker feature. Another was Onset ($3 million), where Perle sits on the board of directors. Cambridge Display Technology, a company in which Perle reportedly holds a stake, received $14 million from Hollinger.

Times reporter Abigail Rayner writes that Perle's failure to disclose his bonuses "represents an apparent contravention" of Securities and Exchange Commission rules, which require directors of public companies to annually disclose earnings above $60,000.

more...

[Stephanie]

32. There you go. That's the ticket.

They must have asked him to resign because of this.

That crap about suing journalists is pure bull - he promised to do that last year when Hersh printed the story about Trireme and Khashoggi, but of course he never did. He's a neo-con. If his lips are moving he's lying.

[susu369]

65. With the Hollinger trial in full steam - tomorrow's decision

must have Perle sweating bullets.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3517381.stm

By the end of this week, one of the chapters in an utterly enthralling drama of ego and money, hubris and power will be closed.

It is set in a court room in Wilmington, Delaware....
-snip-

There Judge Leo Strine is to decide whether Lord Black can sell his stake in Hollinger International - with its control of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph in London, the Jerusalem Post and the Chicago Sun-Times - to Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay, twins who already own some less exalted papers in Britain.

High drama

In court, there is a cast worthy of Dickens - or Perry Mason.
-snip-

With more litigation pending in Chicago, an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York underway, and the Ontario Securities Commission keeping an eye on matters, the court hearing in Delaware may decide the fate of the newspapers, but it will not end the affair.

[legin]

33. You ain't got rid of him yet

Perle is a long range strategic influencer, he deals with ideas, he doesn't have to be in the loop of day to day information, it's not his job. His predecessor Wohlstetter was not always in Government.

Perle has the AEI and he has all his friends scattered up and down the administration in key positions. Perle will get to see all the reports he needs to see.

The only way you can ever consider Perle difused is when he is in solitary confinement in a prison somewhere in Outer Mongolia or he decides inside his head to quit, and these types don't quit ever. Then you still got to deal with the rest of his mates.

It's a nice little cosmetic change that takes care of little possible problem area for bush* in the run up to the election.

[scarletwoman]

46. You're right on the money there, legin.

It'll take a (figurative) wooden stake through the heart to rid our country of these vampires.

sw

[slinkerwink]

34. haha, that's amazing!

[knight_of_the_star]

35. That's one

And he's one of the smarter ones of the bunch. Looks like if HE is jumping ship, then this election will be a LOT closer than the GOP would like. If things were safe, he probably wouldn't have done this.

[mike1963]

37. He has to resign so he can sue? BWAHAHAHA Hey, Pearle, read this:

I say you are a goddamned chickenshit lying motherfucker who has brought 'conflict of interest' to a historic high. You wanna sue me? Bring it on, asshole! And I'll make it easy, you son of a bitch: [e-mail]

Easy to find me, prick.
:grr:

[Stephanie]

39. If anyone missed Hersh's story on Perle's company, Trireme, here it is

This is the story Perle was supposedly going to sue over.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030317fa_fact

LUNCH WITH THE CHAIRMAN
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi?
Issue of 2003-03-17
Posted 2003-03-10

<snip>Khashoggi is still brokering. In January of this year, he arranged a private lunch, in France, to bring together Harb Saleh al-Zuhair, a Saudi industrialist whose family fortune includes extensive holdings in construction, electronics, and engineering companies throughout the Middle East, and Richard N. Perle, the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, who is one of the most outspoken and influential American advocates of war with Iraq.

The Defense Policy Board is a Defense Department advisory group composed primarily of highly respected former government officials, retired military officers, and academics. Its members, who serve without pay, include former national-security advisers, Secretaries of Defense, and heads of the C.I.A. The board meets several times a year at the Pentagon to review and assess the country’s strategic defense policies.

Perle is also a managing partner in a venture-capital company called Trireme Partners L.P., which was registered in November, 2001, in Delaware. Trireme’s main business, according to a two-page letter that one of its representatives sent to Khashoggi last November, is to invest in companies dealing in technology, goods, and services that are of value to homeland security and defense. The letter argued that the fear of terrorism would increase the demand for such products in Europe and in countries like Saudi Arabia and Singapore.

The letter mentioned the firm’s government connections prominently: “Three of Trireme’s Management Group members currently advise the U.S. Secretary of Defense by serving on the U.S. Defense Policy Board, and one of Trireme’s principals, Richard Perle, is chairman of that Board.” The two other policy-board members associated with Trireme are Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State (who is, in fact, only a member of Trireme’s advisory group and is not involved in its management), and Gerald Hillman, an investor and a close business associate of Perle’s who handles matters in Trireme’s New York office. The letter said that forty-five million dollars had already been raised, including twenty million dollars from Boeing; the purpose, clearly, was to attract more investors, such as Khashoggi and Zuhair.</snip>

[dae]

40. Prick Perle resigns so he can sue...riiight! <wink> <wink>

Is it just me or does he look deathly ill in that picture. I've seen movies with ghouls and vampires that looked better.

[leesa]

42. Yes! And on to his war crimes trial!

[Snazzy]

43. could have something to do with the Comanche

and vice versa.

Perle's Trireme fund had about $23 million from Boeing.

http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/updates/040403.html

[Bundbuster]

45. Waaaaaaahhhhhhhh!

You never even have to Photoshop these scumbags

[Snazzy]

47. yikes!

(with apologies to Peter Sellers)

[grytpype]

53. Mine President!

We could use a large bank of... computers....

[Lindsay]

48. Ooooh, that's gonna give me nightmares!

Think I need to put on my garlic necklace.

[ochazuke]

57. Dikensian Trolls!

Don't Cheney, Perle and a lot of other conservatives look like they might be the guys kicking poor kids in a Charles Dickens novel?

[Skip Intro]

50. Like they don't still have his cell phone number...

:eyes:

I'd like to see a restraining order. Before the war crimes punishment, of course.

[Kinkistyle]

51. sacrificial lamb/scapegoat - not good 'nuff

I won't be happy till they are all gone. The buck stops at the Oval Office.

[pacifictiger]

52. So he left

because the light of truth was starting to shine in his direction and begin to expose his litany of evil manipulations. Unfortunately, he will probably try to crawl into a hole of anonimity where he can continue plotting more misdeeds. This man needs to be followed relentlessly wherever he goes!

[daleo]

54. Perhaps part of the Bushco plan to try to steal the election

Get rid of the most irritating creatures (Perle certainly qualifies, as would Rummy) during the run-up to the election to try to get a bit of a buzz about being moderate. This makes phony polls seem more reasonable, which makes vote rigging seem less likely when that happens.

But maybe its not that easy for them. I am still surprised there have been no planted WMD uncovered.

[ochazuke]

55. Here's what's going to happen to him:

He's being groomed for the role of Himmler in the second Bush administration.

So, he needs to take a few months off to lighten up, and look less evil-looking.

[Norquist Nemesis]

56. Tenet bared his teeth

and Perle runs for cover! That was stupid for Perle to call for Tenet's resignation...

[Stephanie]

58. Ah! Maybeeeee

He does have some NERVE, doesn't he? The neo-cons' schemes have been miserable failures. Their response? Even grander schemes.

Intel failures?

Blame the victim!

After you have trashed the career intel officers' work and substituted your own propaganda in order to Get Your War On, and then, after the war, when your propaganda is discredited for the BIG LIE that it is:

Blame the career people! Better yet - blame their boss!

[Voltaire99]

59. Should be put in chains and taken to the Hague

Coincidentally, don't miss Lewis Lapham's vivisection of Perle in this month's Harper's. Delicious.

[maddezmom]

61. asscroft should sieze his passport

it's not going to happen, but one can dream.

[ze_dscherman]

62. Just a first step

Just passed the good news to some friends/multipliers, hasn't arrived in German news yet. It's just a first step, but I already experience a genuine case of Schadenfreude.

[dusty64]

63. WTF took so long?

Shouldn't this unelected and unaccountable POS have been canned long ago when his many conflicts of interest and often treasonous activities became known?

[LeftHander]

64. Forced out so his radical ideas wash off Bush

KkkArl Rove on the move...

Read this quote:

"We are now approaching a long presidential election campaign, in the course of which issues on which I have strong views will be widely discussed and debated," Perle wrote. "I would not wish those views to be attributed to you or the President at any time, and especially not during a presidential campaign."