Current Qwest CEO is a ** committee appointee!

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Mike Malloy was talking about how the press on Qwest refusing the NSA's request was in the past tense, referring to Qwest's former CEO. Nothing about the current CEO's thoughts on the NSA's request. He also said the current CEO, Richard Notebaert, was appointed by ** to the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee!

Here, I found a picture:

General John Gordon, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, presents Qwest Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard C. Notebaert with his certificate recognizing his appointment by President George W. Bush to the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. (Photo by Donna Burton, Defense Information Systems Agency.)

http://www.ncs.gov/nstac/may2004/nstac_meetings.html

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1. This needs some looking into, I think. k & r

Thanks for posting

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2. Notebaert also gave $25,000 to the RNC

in July 2004, according to opensecrets.org

[upi402]

3. i smell more poo

[anitar1]

4. What flavor is your poo ? n/t

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5. Notebaert also gave $1,000 to the "New American Century Fund"

in July 1994, also according to opensecrets.org. Anybody know if this was connected to PNAC?

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6. I think old school repubs find this just as troubling as the rest of us

maybe he's an old school kinda guy.

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7. Let's hope! n/t

[TomInTib]

8. And Qwest belongs to Carlyle

Dex Media, Inc. announced that a Registration Statement on Form S-1 has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The shares are being offered by Dex Media, Inc. and a selling stockholder.

Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co. will act as joint book-running managers for the proposed offering. The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. Once available, a preliminary prospectus may be obtained from Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers Inc. or Merrill Lynch & Co. A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective.


Dex Media, Inc. became a fully independent company in September 2003 with the completion of its $7.05 billion sale by Qwest to The Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe (the first phase of the sale was completed in November 2002) – a transaction widely noted as the second largest corporate buyout in U.S. history. Dex Media is now the largest privately owned incumbent directory publisher in the world and is the exclusive, official publisher for Qwest Communications International.

http://www.yppa.org/pdf/membership_communications/20040531.html

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9. I think that's just the directory division, but still... n/t

[TomInTib]

11. Yeah, it is. But that's what it's all about. Read this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1168887&mesg_id=1168887

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12. Whoa, didn't think about that! n/t

[originalpckelly]

10. Nacchio was forced to step down because of "insider trading charges"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

I wonder if they slimed him like Joseph Wilson. I think I have a them here, they don't like the average Joe.