Is CIA helping the GOP subvert the Constitution and rip-off taxpayers?

[Octafish]

Looks that way:

Daniel Hopsicker reports a spooky fellah connected to convicted congressman Duke Cunningham and super-lobyist Jack Abramoff was part of an official CIA effort to help the GOP fill its campaign coffers — using U.S. taxpayer dollars. The guy's name is Brent Wilkes and he's buddy-buddy with Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Fogg, apparently the #3 turd at CIA, run by Operation 40 hitman and former GOP Congressman, Porter Goss.

And to think I actually was wondering what happened to the peace dividend after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989!

CUNNINGHAM SCANDAL FIGURE LINKED

TO IRAN CONTRA COCAINE TRAFFICKING

Dec 6 2005--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker
*World Exclusive*
MadCowMorningNews

San Diego businessman Brent Wilkes, a key figure in the Randy “Duke” Cunningham bribery scandal—as well as the Justice Department investigation of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff—worked in Honduras during the 1980’s for a company accused by federal prosecutors of deep involvement in cocaine trafficking.

Over the weekend the San Diego Union-Tribune, Cunningham’s hometown paper, reported that Brent Wilkes has a two decade long history of close links with the CIA.

SNIP…

The Cunningham Abramoff Scandal is no longer about greedheads gaming the system.

The essential question posed by the Abramoff-Cunningham scandal is chilling in its ramifications:

Did U.S. intelligence agencies assist in funneling rivers of cash from suspect defense contractors into the campaign coffers of pro-war Republican lawmakers?

Was U.S. taxpayer money secretly used to subvert American democracy?

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http://www.madcowprod.com/

Your congressional-military-industrial-intelligence complex at work:



I hate to ask: “Can it get any more crooked?”

From a journalist’s standpoint: “Can it get any better?”

Speaking of which: “Where are the other journalists on this one?”

Here's an amazing resource, full of facts, the Project On Government Oversight:

http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/contract_oversight/

Please don't say, "Conspiracy Theory." Instead say "Institutionalized Corruption" or "Poppy's Secret Team."

[Octafish]

1. San Diego Union: 'Contractor Knew How to Grease the Wheels'

Some background on these turds and how they operate -- at your expense and, for the most part, without your knowledge.

THE CUNNINGHAM SCANDAL

Contractor 'knew how to grease the wheels'

ADCS founder spent years cultivating political contacts

By Dean Calbreath
and Jerry Kammer
STAFF WRITER / COPLEY NEWS SERVICE

December 4, 2005

In government documents, he is referred to as "co-conspirator No. 1": a man who gave more than $630,000 in cash and favors to former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham for help in landing millions of dollars in federal contracts.

Poway military contractor Brent Wilkes – whom Justice Department officials identify as the co-conspirator – has long been active in local political circles, serving as the San Diego County finance co-chairman of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign and the state finance co-chairman for President Bush.

Wilkes has not been charged with a crime in the Cunningham case. The former Rancho Santa Fe congressman announced his resignation Monday after pleading guilty to charges of tax evasion and conspiracy. Three other men – Washington defense contractor Mitchell Wade, businessman Thomas Kontogiannis and financier John T. Michael, both of New York – also have been identified as co-conspirators.

Wilkes' story shows how gifts, favors and campaign contributions can be used to gain lucrative business from the government.

Over the past 20 years, Wilkes has devoted much of his career to developing political contacts in Washington. He and his associates have spent at least $600,000 on political contributions and $1.1 million on lobbying beyond the gifts mentioned in the Cunningham plea agreement, as they cultivated such politicians as House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis.

And since 1996, he has received at least $95 million in government contracts for the small family of firms based in his $11 million headquarters in Poway, including ADCS Inc. and Group W.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051204/news_1n4adcs.html

This goes a long way to explaining the mess we're in today.

The United States has been hijacked by the War Party.

And they've institutionalized corruption.

[Octafish]

2. GovExec: Possible Corruption in CIA Contracting

Sounds like Halliburtonization of the U.S. Government.

According to Jason Vest in GovExec, we need to examine CIA contracting:

Contracting probe could extend to CIA

By Jason Vest
[e-mail]

Federal investigators in San Diego have made it clear that while just-resigned Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pled guilty last week to taking bribes from defense contractors, their public corruption probe will not stop at Cunningham. Numerous current and retired CIA officials say they will not be surprised if the investigation touches the CIA in general, and its third-ranking official in particular.

"Though everyone has been talking about what Cunningham did for contractors from his position on Defense Appropriations , you also have to remember that he had a seat on Intelligence too, which is also a good position to help contractors from, particularly if they want to do business with the CIA," says a veteran CIA officer. "But the real question I think is, if those contractors were doing business with the CIA, did they need Cunningham? And even if they didn't, the question is, even if he didn't do anything, did one the highest-ranking agency officials have any idea what his friends were up to?"

According to past and present CIA officials interviewed over the past month, CIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo--whose career duties have encompassed letting CIA contracts--has had a long, close personal relationship with two contractors identified (though not explicitly named) in court papers as bribing Cunningham: Brent Wilkes of the Wilkes Corp., whose subsidiaries include defense contractor ADCS; and former ADCS consultant Mitchell Wade, until recently president of defense contractor MZM, Inc. It is a relationship, the CIA officials say (with some putting a particular emphasis on Wilkes), that has increasingly been of concern.

One current and two retired senior CIA officials told Government Executive that (as noted last week by reporter Laura Rozen in The American Prospect's TAPPED blog) the relationship of Wilkes and Foggo--who the CIA's Web site declares is "under cover and cannot be named at this time," even though he is pictured and identified on a federal charity web page--has been a subject of increasing concern by some at Langley.

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http://govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=32916&dcn=todaysnews

Gee. No wonder the CIA has a black budget. They don't want us to know it's not privatization. It's piratization.

[Octafish]

3. US Congressman owned cabin with USAF Secretary

Your congressional-military-industrial-complex at work -- I mean, play:

Ethics questions dog California congressman; Owned cabin with Air Force Secretary
Miriam Raftery

By Miriam Raftery
RawStory.com

Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has come under fire from constituents for accepting nearly a quarter million dollars in campaign contributions from missile defense contractors over the past five years. Hunter has also drawn criticism for accepting $46,000 from un-indicted co-conspirators implicated in bribing Hunter’s friend and San Diego colleague, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who resigned from Congress after pleading guilty.

But Hunter’s ties to the defense industry go even deeper.

The Republican Congressman shares ownership in a Virginia cabin with Pete Geren – who served as Acting Secretary of the U.S. Air Force from August through early November, RAW STORY has learned. Hunter’s disclosure forms filed with the FEC indicate he built the cabin in 1996 along with Geren and a third partner, Al Tierney.

The Associated Press has previously confirmed that Hunter’s cabin is co-owned by Geren, a former Democratic Congressman from Texas. But no publication has yet revealed that the powerful House Armed Services Committee chair has been bunking with the chief procurement officer for a branch of the armed services.

Boeing scandal vaulted Geren into Air Force position

Geren replaced former Air Force Secretary James Roche, who resigned following a procurement scandal involving an Air Force officer steering lucrative contracts to Boeing – a major Hunter contributor.

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http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Congressman_tied_to_contractors_bribery_coconspirators_1214.html

Anybody else give a damn?

[Octafish]

4. The Hill: Wilkes companies leave little trace in cyberspace

Follow the money... to treason.

Wilkes companies leave little trace in cyberspace

By Roxana Tiron

Among K Street’s hundreds of lobbying shops, Group W Advisors stands out because it does not exist in the virtual universe. Attempts to load the lobbying group’s website result in a message: “This virtual directory does not allow contents to be listed.”

But that message was not always there. Just weeks ago, the website was up and running, boasting that the company has been instrumental in introducing digital-document technology to the Department of Defense. The website also said Congress doled out $500 million for a congressionally generated pilot program for document automation, according to an article published by the San Diego Union-Tribune earlier this year.

These days, however, the firm may not want to boast about its lucrative government contracts, for Group W Advisors is owned by Brent Wilkes, who has become entangled in the bribery allegations that last week forced the resignation of Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.).

Cunningham resigned after pleading guilty to accepting bribes from executives at two defense contractors, MZM Inc. and ADCS Inc., which received millions of dollars in government defense contracts for its document-automation technology.

ADCS is also owned by Wilkes. While ADCS Inc. won contracts, Group W Advisors was employing Alexander Strategy Group, a well-known conduit to Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), to lobby on defense appropriations. Group W Advisors has paid Alexander Strategy Group $620,000 since 2002.

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http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Business/120605_wilkes.html

Hope springs eternal. As in "I hope there is no statute of limitations on treason."

[Swamp Rat]

10. Yes, but I'm totally exhausted...

... must sleep! :boring:

[Octafish]

27. The BFEE Never Sleeps.

And with lemur-like TIA eyes, it's easy to see why.

Gee whiz, Rat. You've again managed to scare the Dickens out of me and capture the entire Bush Family Evil Empire in one image.

Now THAT's Art.

Spying and the Public's Right to Know

The New York Times doesn't have a good explanation for why it waited until after the 2004 election to print a devastating report against the White House.

By Robert Parry, Consortium News. Posted December 19, 2005.

The New York Times has disclosed that George W. Bush secretly waived rules restricting electronic surveillance inside the United States, allowing spying on hundreds of Americans that normally would require a court warrant. But almost as stunning was the Times admission that it had held the story for a year.

Indeed, it appears the information about Bush's secret spy order was leaked before Election 2004, but was kept from the American people because the Bush administration warned Times executives that the story's publication might endanger national security.

In finally publishing the story on Dec. 16, more than 13 months after President Bush won a second term, the Times gave few details about specifically why it withheld the story in 2004 and then decided to print it now.

The article stated that "the White House asked The New York Times not to publish this article, arguing that it could jeopardize continuing investigations and alert would-be terrorists that they might be under scrutiny. After meeting with senior administration officials to hear their concerns, the newspaper delayed publication for a year to conduct additional reporting."

In the final weeks before Election 2004, Bush administration officials might have been nervous, too, that the revelation that Bush had asserted broad presidential authority in overriding legal constraints on domestic spying could have played into the hands of Democrat John Kerry. But there is no indication that political concerns were raised with New York Times executives.

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http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/29747/

"I'll sneek over after Karl and Jeff go to sleep."

[Clara T]

5. kick for a full account of the crimes

[Octafish]

7. GOP crooks slipped in authorizations into bills as 'earmarks.'

That way, there was no real public oversight.

Behind the Cunningham Scandal

The San Diego Union-Tribune ran an excellent profile Sunday on military contractor Brent Wilkes, identified as "Co-conspirator No. 1" in the indictment against former Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham (63, CA-R, 50th district). Three others have been identified as co-conspirators -- defense contractor Mitchell Wade, businessman Thomas Kontogiannis and financier John T. Michael -- but only Cunningham has been charged to date. According to the Union-Tribune, Wilkes, a suburban San Diego businessman, and associates have spent

... at least $600,000 on political contributions and $1.1 million on lobbying beyond the gifts mentioned in the Cunningham plea agreement, as they cultivated such politicians as House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis. And since 1996, he has received at least $95 million in government contracts for the small family of firms based in his $11 million headquarters in Poway (map), including ADCS Inc. and Group W.

But what did Wilkes and his firms do with that $95 million? Reports sugggest that could be the $64,000 question.

The short answer is this: in part, provide controversial electronic document conversion services/software that the Pentagon never requested. Who knew that Congressional earmarks were the behind-the-scenes reward of choice for projects other than transportation?

CONTINUED w LINKS...

http://uspolitics.about.com/b/a/207497.htm

So, Bob Woodward, where's the press when you need them?

Most importantly: Thanks for the kick! And a hearty welcome to DU, Clara T!

[Al-CIAda]

6. r'd.

Hopsicker.
:thumbsup:

[Octafish]

8. This story is so hot, the crooks are pulling it off 'friendly' web sites.

Check this out, from GOOGLE News:

CROOKS IN CONGRESS AND CIA ROGUE WEASELS

The Conservative Voice, NC - Dec 5, 2005

... The corruption on Capitol Hill is so rampant that exposure of it is odd - and ... Let's start with this: the company that bribed Cunningham, MZM, Inc., is a CIA ...

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=10500

So, I went to the web site and got an error message. If anyone can get in, please grab the story and PM me a copy. TIA and much obliged.

Gee. What is there not to like about a corrupted government?

Most importantly: Hi, Al-CIAda! Hopsicker rocks the BFEE.

[bear425]

12. Seems like the whole site is down. BTW, Octafish...

Thanks for all you do.

[Al-CIAda]

13. Good morning to you too, Octafish.

:hi: :thumbsup: :patriot:

[bobthedrummer]

9. It is thoroughly corrupt Octafish

It's been that way for quite awhile-it isn't "conspiracy theory"--you've known that for decades and so have a few others here that are still with us. It is that clear to many more today. Keep up the work on BFEE!
Time to check out Mr. Bush's "press conference".
Btw, Christmas greetings from our house to yours.

[Octafish]

18. Cunningham Stripped $700 Million from U.S. Defense

Gee. Diverting money from Pentagon programs to lining his turd buddies pockets doesn't sound all that pro-defense to me.

Cunningham Stripped $700 Million from U.S. Defense

World Exclusive*
Nov 30 2005--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker

The MadCowMorningNews has learned that California Republican Congressman Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham steered $500 million in defense contracts in less than a decade, according to the company’s own website, to a start-up San Diego software firm which—and here’s the beauty part—doubled as a lobbying firm.

The lobbying firm then gratefully kicked back—at a bare minimum—hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to a Jack Abramoff-directed Washington D.C. lobbying and consulting firm run by two former senior staffers of Texas Republican Tom DeLay.

It offered, in other words, one-stop shopping.

While the focus was on the $2 million in bribes paid to Cunningham after his guilty plea, the question of just what the Congressman had done for all that long green received scant media attention.


The GOPMOB's Magic Horn of Plenty

But as the extent of the damage to America’s national security wrought by the bribes which crossed Cunningham’s greasy palm begins to come into focus, the fraud being revealed is orders of magnitude greater than has been hinted at so far.

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http://www.madcowprod.com/11302005.html

So maybe we're getting an idea of what happened to all those unaccounted for trillions with a T that the Pentagon can't find.

Most importantly:

Thanks for the kind words, Bob! Your friendship means everything.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours, bobthedrummer! May the new year bring you all peace, joy, prosperity and all that is good.

[mopinko]

11. kick

don't say conspiracy theory, say conspiracy to commit treason.

[Octafish]

21. Conspiracy to Commit Treason

It sounds about Reich.

And now, everyone wants to give something back:

Randy 'Duke' Cunningham

Lawmakers shed cash tied to two contractors

By Dana Wilkie
UNION-TRIBUNE COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
December 8, 2005

WASHINGTON – With the election year fast approaching, some members of Congress are moving quickly to distance themselves from two of former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's alleged co-conspirators by shedding campaign contributions linked to the defense contractors.

More than 100 members of the House and Senate – Republicans and Democrats – took money from former MZM Inc. president Mitchell Wade, ADCS Inc. owner Brent Wilkes, their relatives, employees or political action committees, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign watchdog group.

The lawmakers include GOP heavyweights such as Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas, the former House majority leader; notables such as Sen. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina; Californians such as Reps. Duncan Hunter of El Cajon and Darrell Issa of Vista; and former San Diego-area congressmen such as Ron Packard and Brian Bilbray, who is running for Cunningham's vacant seat.

Among the Democrats: Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island; Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia; Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania; and former Rep. Vic Fazio of Sacramento.

Cunningham, who served eight terms as a Republican congressman from Rancho Santa Fe, pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy and tax evasion as he admitted taking $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for steering government work to defense contractors. While the plea agreement does not name the four co-conspirators, two are identifiable from the agreement as Wade and Wilkes. Justice Department officials have confirmed their identities, too, as well as those of the other two co-conspirators – New York businessman Thomas Kontogiannis and John T. Michael, who is the nephew of Kontogiannis' wife and president of a Long Island mortgage company.

"Although we haven't had convictions yet for Wade or Wilkes, and though there is a presumption of innocence, Cunningham's own admission of guilt would tend to suggest there's something untoward about the money," said Douglas Weber, a researcher with the Center for Responsive Politics.

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20051208-9999-1n8dukefund.html

Typical presstitute coverage: Both the DEMS and GOP took money from these turds. Gee. It seems the MAJORITY of those benefiting are GOP and the most money went to those gangsters.

Thanks for the kick, mopinko! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours!

[Al-CIAda]

14. .

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. Defense Contractors or the CIA caught red-handed selling drugs

to American kids. What's the real story here?

[rman]

19. Kerry: "Something is really wrong out there" re. CIA narcotics trade

"We were complicit as a country, in narcotics traffic at the same time as we're spending countless dollars in this country as we try to get rid of this problem. It's mind-boggling.
I don't know if we got the worst intelligence system in the world, i don't know if we have the best and they knew it all, and just overlooked it.
But no matter how you look at it, something's wrong. Something is really wrong out there."
-- John Kerry, Iran Contra Hearings, 1987

from the documentary "Crack The C.I.A."
http://www.archive.org/download/ctc/ctc_256kb.mov (32MB, 9min)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res7dhyg/slaverevolt.html

[Octafish]

22. The real story: BushCo doesn't care as long as they get their cut.

DEA agents testified they saw US Government operatives load planes with dope in Central America bound for the USA.

The Reagan-Bush badministrations did zip about it.

Come to think about it, neither did their successors.

DEA Agents Agree: CIA Means "Cocaine Importation Agency"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4061234

[texpatriot2004]

16. Great visual aid you have here nm

[Octafish]

23. Thanks, texpatriot2004. You might like this one, too.

It's from www.AddictedToWar.com. They're people who give a damn.

[texpatriot2004]

24. This one makes a huge statement about the human race and

our level of spiritual enlightenment IMHO.

[Al-CIAda]

17. .

[Octafish]

25. ABRAMOFF'S SHADOW LOBBY: Writers' Bloc

How the neocons got their groove:

ABRAMOFF'S SHADOW LOBBY.

Writers' Bloc

by Franklin Foer

In August 1997, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay traveled to Russia in the company of his frequent companion, the now-infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff. For six days, he huddled with government ministers and oil executives and golfed at the Moscow Country Club. Any pleasant memories of this tour of post-communist prosperity, however, have surely vanished. The trip now threatens the Texan's political career and has placed Abramoff at the center of congressional inquiries. DeLay, though, was not the only prominent conservative to see Russia the Abramoff way. Two months before DeLay touched down there, Abramoff's firm shepherded a contingent of Washington journalists and thinkers around Moscow--an itinerary of meetings and meals designed to please the trip's funder, a Russian energy concern called NaftaSib. This journey included Tod Lindberg, then-editor of The Washington Times editorial page; Insight magazine's James Lucier; and Erica Tuttle, The National Interest's assistant managing editor at the time.

Such trips were essential prongs of Abramoff's lobbying campaigns. The conservative movement's think tanks, newspapers, and little magazines are filled with junketeers who have traveled the world on his dime. "It was like, you weren't cool if you didn't go," remembers Marshall Wittmann, former legislative director of the Christian Coalition. And that's precisely as Abramoff planned it. In a draft of a 2000 proposal to represent the Malaysian government, he and his colleagues boasted, "Our firm is one of the most expert in organizing effective trips to distant destinations, having already brought literally hundreds of such notables to destinations ranging from Pakistan to Russia to Saipan and within the U.S. mainland." They told the Malaysians that these trips produce a "certain outcome": "timely and powerful editorials and articles" conveying his clients' messages. "Our firm has facilitated hundreds of such articles and editorials."

It's one thing to imagine that politicians, with their need for campaign cash, could be swayed by a lobbyist. Journalists and intellectuals, on the other hand, even those who admit their ideological predispositions, aren't supposed to be so susceptible to influence-peddlers. Abramoff, however, proved otherwise. He understood how the universe of thinkers and activists associated with the Republican Party operated, how to manipulate them with ideological buzzwords, and how to influence them with access and money. Jack Abramoff didn't just corrupt Tom DeLay. He helped corrupt the whole conservative movement.

Abramoff was perfectly poised to accomplish this feat. In large part, that's because, 25 years ago, he befriended the man who became one of the movement's field marshals, Grover Norquist. In 1980, the two teamed to organize Massachusetts campuses for the Reagan-Bush campaign, helping bring home Ted Kennedy's state for the Gipper. The following year, Norquist ran Abramoff's triumphant nationwide campaign for chairmanship of the College Republicans. They owed their bond to a shared affinity for bomb-throwing, hardcore conservatism. At College Republicans, they instructed organizers to memorize a speech from the movie Patton. Only, they insisted that their minions replace references to Nazis with references to Democrats. As in, "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them! Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"

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http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050516&s=foer051605

Thanks for the kick to the pants of traitors, Al-CIAda. May these turds find that what they thought was sand in their underwear is not sand and it's moving.

[converted_democrat]

20. Unreal....Unfuckingreal...K&R ....n/t

[Octafish]

26. The contracting scandal goes clear through CIA to the Pentagon.

But all good things have to start somewhere...

The contracting scandal won’t end with Duke

By Josh Marshall

The Duke Cunningham scandal turned out to be as overdone, cartoonish and free of all ambiguity as the man himself. And Duke’s exit sounded more like the confession of a disgraced televangelist than the usually defiant send-offs of Washington pols caught in the webs of their own making.

Now Cunningham’s various ill-gotten gains — the fancy rugs, the candelabra, the ornate furniture and antiques — have been confiscated by the IRS and placed on display in a warehouse in San Diego where the now-former congressman’s constituents can ogle all the pricey gifts he bagged while purportedly representing him.

Soon, the IRS will sell the stuff off at auction.

But watch closely because this isn’t ending with Duke Cunningham.

According to my sources and a scattering of published reports, the Cunningham scandal appears to be evolving into a full-fledged defense and intelligence contracting scandal with Duke Cunningham just the most colorful character and the first to be taken down. As part of his plea agreement, Cunningham has agreed to assist prosecutors in their ongoing investigation. And, I’m told, one of the four unnamed “co-conspirators” mentioned in the charges against him has been cooperating with investigators pretty much from the beginning.

Most of the original attention in the Cunningham scandal focused on Mitchell Wade, owner of MZM Inc. He’s the one who bought Cunningham’s house at that comically inflated price and set in motion the chain of events that led to Cunningham’s downfall. But the person to focus on is the man identified in court documents as co-conspirator No. 1, Brent Wilkes. (Wade actually came up through Wilkes’s operation.)

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http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/JoshMarshall/120805.html

Perhaps all this will lead to a better time...



Oh! Happy day!

[converted_democrat]

29. In your opinion, is this enough to actually get them this time, or do you

think they will get away with yet another scandal? It's unbelievable to me, what they seem to be getting away with. Will they ever have to answer for all of these misdeeds?

[Octafish]

31. The good guys will win. We can speed it up.

Our catalyst? The Truth.

It's hard to get the word out when they control the TV, though.

Robert Parry's put it into words convenient for conveyance:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/media.html

So, we need Plan B: Word of Mouth and the Internets.

Here's something to chew them on:

Military waste under fire

$1 trillion missing -- Bush plan targets Pentagon accounting

- Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, May 18, 2003

The Department of Defense, already infamous for spending $640 for a toilet seat, once again finds itself under intense scrutiny, only this time because it couldn't account for more than a trillion dollars in financial transactions, not to mention dozens of tanks, missiles and planes.

The Pentagon's unenviable reputation for waste will top the congressional agenda this week, when the House and Senate are expected to begin floor debate on a Bush administration proposal to make sweeping changes in how the Pentagon spends money, manages contracts and treats civilian employees.

The Bush proposal, called the Defense Transformation for the 21st Century Act, arrives at a time when the nonpartisan General Accounting Office has raised the volume of its perennial complaints about the financial woes at Defense, which recently failed its seventh audit in as many years.

"Overhauling DOD's financial management operations represent a challenge that goes far beyond financial accounting to the very fiber of (its) . . . business operations and culture," GAO chief David Walker told lawmakers in March.

WHAT HAPPENED TO $1 TRILLION?

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/18/MN251738.DTL

The American public -- the vast majority -- have so much on their minds, they don't know all the stuff the Bush Gang has been doing. What we need to do, converted_democrat, is keep passing the word along: These are not mere crooks, they are traitors. Sooner or later, we'll get the government we truly deserve -- an honest one.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

28. Based on Plame's outing, I'm curious why the CIA would work with....

...the GOP for any reason at this point in time.

[Octafish]

30. Porter Goss of Operation 40 Fame called in to make things 'Right'...

Odd how so many CIA folk -- the good, patriotic and often conservative Republican -- now stand opposed to what the BFEE is up to. Consider the malicious leaking of Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings & Associates and the fact that Smirk and Sneer have pinned the failure of pre-war Groupthink on the Agency. Well, in typical BFEE fashion, they sent in Porter Goss, an alleged veteran of Murder Inc.

Porter Goss as Head of CIA

Well Bush has picked Porter Goss as Director of the CIA. The name may ring a bell. Back at the beginning of July, I published an article on Mr. Goss - here's the skinny:

I truly don't believe in coincidence. Or maybe it's just that my subconscious is working overtime. I read an interesting article by Danny Postel in TAP - Look Who's Feuding (7/01/04), in which he discusses the possible break between the conservative Republicans and the neo-conservative Republicans (Bush's inner circle). He seems to have good backing for his claim that the heart of the Republican party is getting v e r y nervous about the neo-cons and that they may clean house after the election. So when Chris (a UTJ reader) sent along a couple of articles about Porter Goss (the new Director of the CIA) bells started ringing.

Who the heck is Porter Goss, and what's the big deal? Well, Goss is most notably a Republican Representative from Florida (where else) who is the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee (excuse me, co-chair). On the Democrat side we have Bob Graham (also of Florida) and who has also been up to his neck in so illegal escapades with Goss (and the Bushs). Almost every piece you read in the corporate press about Goss includes the tidbit that he is a former CIA secial agent (an important piece of information but rarely followed up). Further, he got into a "dispute" with Cheney over the Congressional 9/11 Investigation. (Is the DIA position a plum or a gift?)

So what started the wheels of my brain churning? Well, Postel reports a falling out among the reps, while Bush Co. appoints Goss to head the CIA. The two articles Chris forwarded both pointed to Goss long term associations with Bushs (Cheney Cat's Paw, Porter Goss, as CIA Director? (McGOvern) and Bush-Cheney Cabal Names Porter Goss CIA Chief (Dowbenko)). What is clear from reading these two articles is that the appointment of Goss is yet another f-u from the administration. Further, it had to be approved by exactly the same folks that Postel argues are thinking about clearing out the neo-con power elite. Bit of a contradiction wouldn't you say?

Dowbenko states:

In 1983, Goss was involved in Iran-Contra profiteering with Jeb and Neil Bush and he was exposed, Martin notes, in "his involvement in Neil Bush s Destin Country Club development fraud a fraud out of which he made about $3 million illegally. He then became involved with Carlos Cardoen and Swissco Management, and the fraud that Swissco Management committed, not only in Florida, but throughout the United States, in those so-called illicit 'tax-swap deals,' which Senator Bob Graham of Florida also profited in.


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Thanks for a great question, Media_Lies_Daily.

Here's another from the author who steered me to the above: "Was Gary Webb on Porter Goss's 'To-Do' List?"

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