Military Industrial Complex?...i need help? scary

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Business Executives for National Security"

www.bens.org

General Boyd (ret>) is the founder and i can't get the site to open on my old computer....ironic it's part of the "Military Industrial Complex" that Ike warned us of and yet WolfoSpitz praises IKe in a speech he gives the org in 2001...i saw General Boyd on C-Span this Am and he talked about his org and how these CEO"s and business leaders help the Pentagon and have access to and consult with the WH to set policy on national security and procurements. :shrug:

after reading the site please tell me what they are all about?

i'm buying a NEW computer this week <sigh>

thanking you in advance :loveya:

WolfoSPITZ is somehow involved and i believe Empower America is also :shrug:

Business Executives for National Security
... Business Executives for National Security. Remarks by Deputy Secretary of DefensePaul Wolfowitz, Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, DC, Thursday, May 3, 2001. ...
www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2001/r20010503-depsecdef.html
Business Executives for National Security
Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, DC, Thursday, May 3, 2001.


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Stanley , thank you for that very nice introduction. As Lyndon Johnson said on a similar occasion, I just wish my late parents were here--my father would have enjoyed it thoroughly, and my mother would have believed it.

This is such a distinguished audience; I think I see as many stars here tonight as we saw at the Oscars--at least two Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and my good friend Stanley Weiss, the chairman and founder and everything else--not everything else, but certainly for whom BENS has been a major work, a major part of his remarkable lifetime.

Senator Cleland, it's an honor to share a podium with you here tonight. Terry O'Connell told me just tell him that I told you everything that the two of us did in Walter Reed Hospital there for six months. And thank you for what you've done for our country. It's a remarkable record, and you continue to do it.

Thank you again, Sidney . I know if Secretary Rumsfeld could be here tonight, he would like me to add a giant thank you from him to you, Stanley Weiss, and to Rich Hearney for everything that BENS has done over the years and that you're doing now to improve our nation's defenses, to mobilize support in the business community for a sane and sensible national security policy.

In fact our management initiatives that we're developing in the Rumsfeld Defense Department are so close to the findings of the BENS tail-to-tooth study that we've made that study a major subject of our preparation sessions for our future Service Secretaries. And I might add that we are looking forward to what I hope is going to be one of the most high-powered teams of Service Secretaries--that will really help us to move ahead on many of the initiatives that BENS has identified and has been pushing for a long time. I don't think I'll have any trouble asking for a round of applause for BENS.

more....:scared:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. help please with www.bens.org

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2. Business Executives for National Security (BENS

Business Executives for National Security (BENS)

Who we are

BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY is a nation-wide, non-partisan, member-driven organization working to help make America safe and secure.

BENS members are senior executives who:
• apply the lessons of successful business practices to help reshape and rebuild Americas military for the 21st Century;

• bridge the gap between business and government in addressing new threats like suitcase bombs, cyberwar, and bioterrorists;

• help the Pentagon, Congress and the White House develop new solutions to our national security challenges.

Board of Directors

Chairman

Mr. Stanley A. Weiss
Chairman of the Board
Business Executives for National Security
Washington, DC


Executive Committee Chairman

Dr. Sidney Harman
Executive Chairman
Harman International Industries
Northridge, California


Vice Chairmen

Mr. Denis A. Bovin
Vice Chairman, Investment Banking
Bear Stearns & Company, Inc.
New York, New York

Dr. Sidney Harman
Executive Chairman
Harman Int'l Industries, Inc.
Northridge, California

Mr. Landon H. Rowland
Chairman, President and CEO
Stilwell Financial, Inc.
Kansas City, Missouri

Mr. Josh S. Weston
Chairman Emeritus
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Roseland, New Jersey

 

President & CEO

General Charles G. Boyd, USAF (Ret.)
President & CEO
Business Executives for National Security
Washington, DC

 

Board of Directors

Mr. Gordon T. Beaham, III
Chairman and CEO
Faultless Starch/Bon Ami Co.
Kansas City, Missouri

Mr. Raphael Benaroya
Chairman and CEO
United Retail Group, Inc.
Rochelle Park, New Jersey

Dr. Jeffrey T. Bergner
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Washington, D.C. 

Ms. Mary M. Boies
President and CEO
Boies & McInnis LLP
Bedford, New York

Mr. Neill H. Brownstein
Special General Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners
Palo Alto, California

Mr. Raymond G. Chambers
Chairman
Amelior Foundation
Morristown, New Jersey

Mr. William T. Coleman, III
Founder and Chief Customer Advocate
BEA
San Jose, California

Mr. Jan Collmer
President and CEO
High Voltage Power Systems, Inc.
Dallas, Texas

Mr. Cristobal I. Conde
President and CEO
SunGard
New York, New York

Mr. Howard E. Cox, Jr.
General Partner
Greylock
Waltham, Massachusetts

Ms. Ann Dickinson
Chairman
Dickinson Financial Corporation
Kansas City, Missouri

Mr. Albert R. Gamper, Jr.
Chairman, President and CEO
The CIT Group, Inc.
Livingston, New Jersey

Mr. Norman M. Hinerfeld
Chairman and CEO
The Delta Group
Larchmont, New York

Mr. Earle W. Kazis
President
Earle W. Kazis Associates, Inc.
New York, New York

Mr. James V. Kimsey
President, Kimsey Foundation
Washington, DC

Mr. Bernard Marcus
Co-Founder
The Home Depot, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. Ramon P. Marks
Partner
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
New York, New York

Mr. John P. Morgridge
Chairman of the Board
Cisco Systems, Inc.
San Jose, California

Mr. William F. Murdy
Chairman and CEO
Comfort Systems USA, Inc.
Houston, Texas

Mr. Mark S. Newman
Chairman of the Board, President and CEO
DRS Technologies, Inc.
Parsippany, New Jersey

Mr. Zenon Nie
Chairman and CEO
C.E.O. Advisory Board
Atlanta, Georgia

Admiral William A. Owens, USN (Ret.)
Vice Chairman of the Board
Teledesic, LLC
Kirkland, Washington

Mr. H. Ross Perot, Jr.
President and CEO
Perot Systems Corporation
Dallas, Texas

Mr. Kenneth W. Rind
General Partner
Israel Infinity Venture Capital
New York, New York

Mr. William J. Rouhana, Jr.
Managing Member
WS Management, LLC
Greenwich, Connecticut

Paul G. Stern
Partner and Co-Founder
Arlington Capital Partners
Washington, DC

The Honorable John C. Whitehead
Chairman Emeritus
AEA Investors, Inc.
New York, New York

 

Board of Directors Emeriti

Mr. David B. Arnold, Jr.
Boston, Massachusetts

Mr. Robert Baum
Chairman and CEO
Robert Baum Corporation
New York, New York

Mr. David S. Browning
VP, Secretary and General Counsel
Schlumberger Technology Corporation
New York, New York

Mr. Robert S. Cohn
Palo Alto, California

Ms. Anne W. Halsted
San Francisco, California

Mr. Lawrence S. Huntington, III
Chairman (Ret.)
Fiduciary Trust Company Int'l.
New York, New York

Mr. Kenneth F. Mountcastle, Jr.
Senior Vice President (Ret.)
Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.
New York, New York

Mr. Edward H. Page, Sr.
President
Scott-Page, Inc.
Sarasota, Florida

Mr. Michael W. Sonnenfeldt
Managing Partner
MUUS Asset Management Company
New York, New York

Mr. William H. Tremayne
Piscataway, New Jersey

Mr. Robert Waggoner
President
Burrelle's Information Services
Livingston, New Jersey

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. Q thank you so much...starting my research...

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4. It used to be...

...that the 'military-industrial complex was hidden from public view. Today...it's right out in the open...war profiteering for all to see.

- Americans ELECT government officials who appoint others to run OUR defense department and military. Now we have unelected/unappointed 'businessmen' running our government like a corporation instead of serving the best interests of the people.

- The website in question is a sham on our democracy. But with the Bush* Cabal in power...anything goes.