(Iraq) Intelligence Commission's Finances Will Stay Private

[UpInArms]

http://www.nytimes.com/top/news/washington/campaign2004/candidates/georgewbush/index.html

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — The White House is declining to make public the financial histories of the commissioners President Bush appointed to investigate American intelligence failures.

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One commissioner, William O. Studeman, for instance, was a former official at the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency and is now a senior executive at Northrop Grumman, a military contractor that does work in weaponry and in planning and detection for unconventional weapons, among many other areas.

Also on the panel is Lloyd M. Cutler, a prominent Washington lawyer who has served in several Democratic administrations. The firm he founded, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, has done work for the Carlyle Group, a large Washington equity firm that has used former President George Bush and other well-connected Republicans to advance its interests in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. Mr. Cutler said in an interview, however, that he had not personally represented the Carlyle Group.

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Judge Silberman acknowledged that he counts among his friends both Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, two of President Bush's most influential advisers on Iraq. And he said, "I plead guilty to being something of a conservative," but added that this would not color his leadership of the commission.

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(edited because the above paragraph on Silberman had to be included)

[rfranklin]

1. Can you say "coverup," children?

Yes, I knew you could.

[priller]

2. "something of a conservative"?

How about an extremely partisan, ethically-challenged conservative, how about that Mr. Silberman?

[54anickel]

3. Yuk! Your link goes to the idiots campaign page. Here's another

link. I'm gonna hurl...

:puke:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/politics/15PANE.html

[UpInArms]

5. thanks for the better link

54anickel - didn't mean to press your :puke: button :D

[ixion]

4. these thugs are so quick to invade our privacy

and equally as quick to coverup theirs.

What's wrong with this picture?

:eyes:

[David Zephyr]

6. So The Saudis Are Underwriting the Commission That Would Have Exposed Them

Smart move by the Houses of Saud and Bush.

Now the commission can't bite the hand that feeds it.

What a fucking sham!

[Jax]

7. Best qualified people my ass

more like the 'best people we already own or can buy'.

snip...
"Administration officials say the arrangement has helped to attract the best-qualified people for the panel..."

:grr:

Jax

[grasswire]

8. better check the background of Henry S. Rowen

...the father of "weapons of mass destruction" in the days when he and Kissinger plotted to use nuclear weapons in central Europe and Russia.

[Taeger]

9. More Halliburton consultants????

Anything "secret" is a coverup. That's not how a proper Democracy is run!!!!