Am I seeing Conspiracy?

[serryjw]

It occurred to me this morning that Doug Feith has left the administration and Wolfie is on the way out..Coul this have anything to do with Valerie Plame? Are we getting closer?

[shraby]

1. I was thinking the same thing.

It won't save them though.

[shimbo]

11. PNAC meme

Interesting graph on PNAC meme -



Quick description of methodology that created the graph.
http://www.realmeme.com/miner/index.php


It's interesting that PNAC was formulated in 1997,
but there's virtually no meme propagation until late 2002.

And it never caught on with the general population (see the
frequency count of 1000). It peaked in 2004 and headed down.

Perhaps it was too complicated for the general public to
understand. A sudden public focus could pop it back up into
public awareness, but I'm not sure it would matter.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Other PNACers have left also Dov Zakheim

Yet even Allbaugh is small-time compared to the latest defector to the private sector, Pentagon comptroller Dov Zakheim, who announced two weeks ago that he will be leaving for a partnership at Booz Allen Hamilton, the technology and management strategy giant that is one of the nation's biggest defense contractors. Although Zakheim is not nearly as familiar as Condoleezza Rice, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, or Defense Policy Board member Richard Perle, he too has been identified as one of the ultrahawkish "Vulcans" who shaped Bush foreign and military policy from its earliest days. Zakheim has bustled through the revolving doors before, serving as a deputy undersecretary of defense during the Reagan administration, where he worked for Perle before leaving government to join a missile-defense contractor.

At the mammoth Booz Allen firm, Zakheim will join R. James Woolsey, the former director of central intelligence and Perle associate on the Bush Defense Policy Board. These were the defense intellectuals who favored invading Iraq long before Sept. 11 -- and long before any U.N. resolutions on the topic were introduced.
So far Booz Allen has yet to win any major Iraq contracts of its own, although it has shared Pentagon boodle for several years with Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary that is by far the biggest contractor out there. (At a recent hearing on Halliburton's scandal-scarred performance in Iraq, Zakheim did his best to defend the vice president's old company. "They're not doing a great job," he shrugged, "but they're not doing a terrible job.")

Booz Allen swiftly jumped on the Baghdad bandwagon last May, when it co-sponsored (with the Republican-connected insurance giant American International Group) a postwar conference on "The Challenges for Business in Rebuilding Iraq" that featured speeches by Woolsey and Undersecretary of Defense Zakheim. (The price of admission for industry executives ranged from $528 to $1,100 a head.) Included was the chance for executives to participate in a "not-for-attribution session that will permit a dynamic, frank exchange of views on the opportunities and challenges businesses will face in post-conflict Iraq."

More recently, Booz Allen was listed as a partner in a controversial $327 million contract to outfit the new Iraqi army. The prime contractor in this murky deal was Nour America Inc., which on closer inspection turned out to be controlled by a close associate of Ahmad Chalabi, the dubious former exile promoted by Perle, Woolsey and their ideological associates as the best possible leader for Iraq after Saddam. Chalabi is a leading member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council and enjoys enormous influence inside the Defense Department, which issued the Nour contract. Unfortunately Nour had scant qualifications, if any, for the lucrative contract. After protests from more qualified contractors who had lost out, the contract was withdrawn for rebidding. Meanwhile, Booz Allen denied any role in the Nour affair, aside from a post-bid $50,000 consulting contract.


more
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:iUASMhjvMuIJ:www.s...

[serryjw]

3. True...BUT

it was Feith or Wolfie that leaked Valerie Plame to Novak

[Warpy]

4. It has more to do with the Israeli spy in the OSP

you know, that PNAC front office that was headed by Woflowitz and Feith. The FBI went public with the scandal because ASscrack tried to bury it. Now, with the two main morons gone, they may be able to bury it completely.

The Plame outing originated in the White House, not the Pentagon.

[Cleita]

5. I keep thinking for no good reason at all, other than a feeling that

I can't seem to shake, that someone in the administration, not privy to all the back room plotting (could be even Bush himself), has discovered that others very high up in the White House, even maybe at a cabinet level, had a complicit hand in the terror attack of 9-11 on the WTC. Anyone with ties to the PNAC would of course be suspect. Could the house of cards be ready to come down? Valerie Plame might be only a part of it.

[MsTryska]

6. wolfie is on the way out?

i thought wolfie was on his way to the World Bank?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. Really...Wolfie going to the WB is hardly "on the way out".

[Frederik]

10. Agreed

Considering the cosy, if not symbiotic, relationship between the bank and the military-industrial complex Wolfie works for, I think they are putting him there to do a job.

[LSdemocrat]

8. Going to the World Bank implies leaving WH military decision making

[MsTryska]

9. yes, but that certainly doesn't put him

"on the way out" as far as PNAC goes. just means they've moved him to phase II of World Domination.

[Wilms]

12. .