Dov Zackheim, Pentagon Comptroller, Misplaced A Trillion Dollar$

[indigobusiness]

Dov Zackheim, Pentagon Comptroller, Misplaced A Trillion $


A Sharon Trojan Horse in the Pentagon siphoning money to him?

Dov Zackheim, Pentagon Comptroller, Has Misplaced A Trillion $



Dov Zakheim resigned as Pentagon Comptroller and Chief Financial
Officer at the beginning of March when it was revealed that the he is
unable to account for the disappearance of a trillion dollars
($1,000,000,000,000). It is unlikely that this will receive much
coverage in the mainstream media.

A General Accounting Office report found Defence inventory systems so
lax that the US army lost track of 56 aeroplanes, 32 tanks and 36
Javelin missile command launch-units. - Al Jazeera

Now here's a new wrinkle for conspiracy theorists who believe that
the hijacked planes were actually remotely controlled from the ground
and that the hijackers were actually themselves turned into suicide
mission patsies. Put this name into your system: Dov Zakheim

BACKGROUND

1985 to 1987 he was deputy under secretary of defense for planning
and resources, and held various other senior Pentagon posts in the
Reagan administration. He was previously with the Congressional
Budget Office. Zakheim is currently corporate vice president of the
Systems Planning Corporation (SPC), a high-technology research,
analysis, and manufacturing firm, and chief executive officer and
president of SPC International, Inc. In 1998, Zakheim, an expert in
ballistic missiles, worked in 1998 with Rumsfeld Commission. More
significantly, he is a long-time Bush associate, having served as a
policy advisor to the governor during the 2000 campaign. In May,
2001, Zakheim was sworn in to the Bush Administration as Under
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) of the DOD.

Here's the wrinkle: Zakheim's company produces advanced Command
Transmitter Systems, designed to provide "remote control and flight
termination functions through a fully redundant, self-contained solid
state system." The unit is just 5 feet high and can be mounted easily
on a mobile platform. Although designed to control unmanned flights
such as Global hawk from remote positions on the ground, one British
aviation engineer said after 9/11 that the planes used in the attacks
were could have been equipped with, or suitable for, such remote
control units.


http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/17203.php

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

1. Nope ... he put it EXACTLY where he was told to... (YOIKES!!)

Don't google what he might be the architect of ...

[indigobusiness]

3. Dov Zakheim, called for a 'Pearl Harbor'

Dov Zakheim, called for a 'Pearl Harbor'

Date: 2005-01-23, 8:27AM CST


Dov Zakheim and the 9/11 Conspiracy
http://www.conspiracynewsnet.com/shadow.html


In a document called "Rebuilding America's Defenses" published by The American Enterprise's "Project for a New American Century"(1), SPC International executive, Dov Zakheim, called for a 'Pearl Harbor' type of incident being necessary to foster the frame of mind needed for the American public to support a war in the Middle East that would politically and culturally reshape the region. A respected and established voice in the intelligence community, his views were eagerly accepted, and Dov went from his position at Systems Planning Corporation to become the Comptroller of the Pentagon in May 2001. (2) Tridata, a subsidiary of Systems Planning Corporation, was in charge of the investigation after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.

Systems Planning Corporation, according to their official website, specializes in many areas of defense technology production and manufacture, including a system developed by their Radar Physics Group called the Flight Termination System, or FTS. (3) This is a system used to destroy target drones (craft that would be fired on by test aircraft or weaponry) in the event of malfunction or "misses". This highly sophisticated war-game technology allows the control of several 'drones' from a remote location, on varying frequencies, and has a range of several hundred miles. This technology can be used on many different types of aircraft, including large passenger jets.

According to the SPC website (4), a recent customer at that time was Eglin AFB, located in Florida. Eglin is very near another Air Force base in Florida-MacDill AFB, where Dov Zakheim contracted to send at least 32 Boeing 767 aircraft, as part of the Boeing /Pentagon tanker lease agreement. (5)

As the events of September 11, 2001 occurred, little was mentioned about these strange connections, and the possible motives and proximity of Dov Zakheim and his group. Since there was little physical evidence remaining after the events, investigators were left only with photographic and anecdotal evidence.

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=consp_911&Number=293364205#Post293364205

[seemslikeadream]

2. Dov Zakheim a PNAC and a Vulcan too!

edit to fix links

Grand old profiteering

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://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:iUASMhjvMuIJ:www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/03/30/profiteers/+Grand+old+profiteering+&hl=en


Zakheim has been a participant on a number of government, corporate, non-profit and charitable boards. His government service includes terms on the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; the Task Force on Defense Reform (1997); the first Board of Visitors of the Department of Defense Overseas Regional Schools (1998); and the Defense Science Board task force on "The Impact of DoD Acquisition Policies on the Health of the Defense Industry" (2000).

A 1970 graduate of Columbia University with a bachelor's in government, Zakheim also studied at the London School of Economics. He earned his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, where he was graduate fellow in programs of both the National Science Foundation and Columbia College, and then a research fellow. Zakheim has been an adjunct professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University, Columbia University and Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., where he was presidential scholar.

Zakheim has written, lectured and provided media commentary on national defense and foreign policy issues domestically and internationally. He is the author of "Flight of the Lavi: Inside a U.S.-Israeli Crisis" (Brassey's, 1996), "Congress and National Security in the Post-Cold War Era" (The Nixon Center, 1998), "Toward a Fortress Europe?" (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2000), and numerous articles and chapters in books.

Recently reflecting on the sacrifices associated with managing the financing of the nation's war effort, Zakheim said, “Our people need to be constantly on their guard, constantly at the ready, razor sharp, in difficult conditions; we don’t want to make (the mission) one iota more difficult over something that’s easily taken care of … if something bothers our people in uniform, I don’t consider it trivial at all.”

“I look forward to more time with my family, and to an exciting new phase of my life,” said Zakheim, regarding his departure from the Department of Defense, “but I shall indeed miss the pleasure of working closely with my colleagues at DoD, and throughout the government, in the Congress, and in many capitals overseas

http://www.defenselink.mil /

Dov S. Zakheim to Resign from the Department of Defense
March 24, 2004
In this position, Zakheim initiated an enterprise architecture to achieve a vision of simpler budget processes, activity-based costing, and a clean audit by 2007. He oversaw three Department of Defense budgets, each totaling more than $300 billion, and recently proposed a 2005 budget of $401.7 billion. He played a leading role in raising in excess of $13 billion for the reconstruction of Iraq, and walked through six wartime supplementals in support of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. He further created the Defense Business Board and worked closely with the Office of Management and Budget and the Government Accounting Office on financial management affairs.

“I am proud to have been part of President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld's senior Pentagon team for the past three years,” said Zakheim reflecting on his tour. “It has been an exhilarating, albeit extremely demanding experience. Even as we have addressed the many concerns arising out of the War on Terror and Operations Enduring Freedom, Noble Eagle and Iraqi Freedom, including winning both military and financial support from the international community for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have also tended to ongoing budget needs to support our forces and defense civilians at home and abroad. We have also made great strides in rectifying the department's antiquated financial management system; we continue to anticipate that DoD will receive clean audits in the not too distant future.”

Regarding Zakheim’s resignation, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, “Dov Zakheim has been a cornerstone to the Department of Defense over the past three years. He has been a leader in helping transform the Department to better address the needs of the 21st century. I thank him for his commitment and his counsel. He will be missed.”

Zakheim was sworn in to his current position May 4, 2001. Prior to that, his government service included a number of key positions, to include from 1985 until March 1987, as the deputy under secretary of defense for planning and resources in the office of the under secretary of defense (policy). He also held a variety of other Department of Defense posts from 1981-1985 and served with the National Security and International Affairs Division of the Congressional Budget Office.

During other periods of Zakheim’s career, he served as a senior foreign policy advisor to then-Gov. Bush, during the 2000 presidential campaign. Prior to that, he was the corporate vice president of System Planning Corporation (SPC), a technology, research and analysis firm. He also served as chief executive officer of SPC International Corp., a subsidiary specializing in political, military and economical consulting.

http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+article+story ...

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.

"The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery.

He was reassigned and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off.

"They have to cover it up," he said. "That's where the corruption comes in. They have to cover up the fact that they can't do the job."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

Analysis: Defense budget practices probed
Thursday, 02-Oct-2003 10:00AM PDT Story from United Press International
Copyright 2003 by United Press International (via ClariNet)

MIAMI, Oct. 2 (UPI) --

Zakheim said, however, he was limited in his response because of the ongoing audit of the issue, which originally was sparked by a telephone call to the Pentagon's Defense Hotline.


"Our objective will be to review the allegations to the Defense Hotline concerning funds 'parked' at the U.S. Special Operations Command by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)," said a letter from the inspector general's office to Gen. Charles Holland, who has since retired as Special Operations commander.

Among several documents The St. Petersburg Times obtained during its investigation was e-mail sent by Special Operations Command Comptroller Elaine Kingston to colleagues in February 2002.
She said an unidentified official in the Pentagon comptroller's office had asked her if the command could "park" $40 million of research-and-development money in its proposed budget for the 2003 fiscal year.


The programs where the money was placed included missile warning systems on aircraft, infrared equipment on helicopters and radar system. The amounts ranged from $2 million to $5 million.
Kingston said in the e-mail message she coached her colleagues on how to account for the money and avoid attracting congressional attention to it.

"We are doing a favor for the OSD (Office of the Secretary of Defense) which we hope will benefit the command if we should need additional (research and development funds)," the message said.
Young said at the hearing on President Bush's request for $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan Tuesday that he wants to know if it is a common practice.

Young is clearly not finished and called it "an obvious attempt to keep from Congress what was happening. I think that would make you suspicious. It makes me a little suspicious."

more
http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/dp/Uus-defense-young-analysis.RUt1_DO2.html


Thursday 11 March 2004

Rabbi Dov Zakheim's refused to tell journalists the exact reason for his departure on Wednesday. A former adjunct economics professor at New York's Yeshiva University, Rabbi Zakheim has spent more than 30 years working in various jobs at the Pentagon.

But he has also worked in private industry, specifically as a consultant to McDonnell Douglas and Boeing.


Rabbi Dov Zakheim,
Pentagon comptroller and chief financial officer, a conservative Republican who graduated from Jew's College in London in 1973, Zakheim first joined the Department of Defence in 1981 under former president Ronald Reagan.

He was responsible for such tasks as preparing defence planning guidance for nuclear war.

As Pentagon Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer, Rabbi Zakheim's priority has been financial management.
But that does not include additional spending needed to support US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - a sum expected to range from $30 billion to $50 billion.


A General Accounting Office report found Defence inventory systems so lax that the US army lost track of 56 aeroplanes, 32 tanks and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/635B6007-9DD0-436C-BFF6-E6521520B1C7.htm


Dr. Dov S. Zakheim
CEO, Systems Planning Corporation International

Dov S. Zakheim is Corporate Vice President of System Planning Corporation (SPC), a high technology, research, analysis, and manufacturing firm based in Arlington, Virginia. He is also Chief Executive Officer of SPC International Corporation, a subsidiary of SPC that specializes in political, military and economic consulting, and international sales and analysis. In addition, Dr. Zakheim serves as Consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He is an Adjunct Scholar of the Heritage Foundation, and a Senior Associate of the Center for International and Strategic Studies.

From 1985 until March 1987, Dr. Zakheim was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Planning and Resources. In that capacity, he played an active role in the Department's system acquisition and strategic planning processes. Dr. Zakheim also guided Department of Defense policy in a number of international economic fora including the US-USSR Commercial Commission; the Caribbean Basin Initiative; and the Canadian-US Free Trade Agreement. He also successfully negotiated numerous arms cooperation agreements with various US allies.


A graduate of Columbia University, New York, where he earned his B.A., Surnma Cum Laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Zakheim also studied at the London School of Economics. Dr. Zakheim earned his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, a Columbia College Kellett Fellow, and a post-doctoral Research Fellow. He has served as Adjunct Professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University and at Columbia University. He is currently Presidential Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

Dr. Zakheim served for two terms as a Presidential appointee to the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. In 1997 he was appointed by Secretary of Defense Cohen to the Task Force on Defense Reform. In May 1999 Secretary Cohen named him to the first Board of Visitors of the Department of Defense Overseas Regional Schools.

Dr. Zakheim writes, lectures, and provides radio and television commentary on national defense and foreign policy issues both domestically and internationally, including appearances on major US network news telecasts, McNeil-Lehrer Newshour, Larry King Live, BBC Arab and World Service. and Israeli, Swedish, and Japanese television. He is an editorial board member of Israel Affairs and of The Round Table (the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs), and serves on review panels for the Wilson Center for International Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, and the U.S. Naval Institute. He is the author of Flight of the Lavi: Inside a US.-Israeli Crisis (Brassey's, 1996), Congress and National Security in the Post Cold War Era (The Nixon Center, 1998), and numerous articles and chapters in books. Dr. Zakheim is also a trustee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute; serves on the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground, and of Friends of the Jewish Chapel of the United States Naval Academy; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and other professional organizations. Dr. Zakheim is a member of the advisory boards of the Center for Security Policy, the Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East, and the American Jewish Committee

more
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/symposia/jointops00/zakheim.html


The CEO of SPC

Dr. Dov Zakheim has been nominated to serve as Under Secretary of Defense and Comptroller. He is presently the CEO of SPC International, and in the past he has served as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Planning and Resources as well as in a variety of Defense Department positions under former President Reagan. He was a member of the Task Force on Defense Reform under then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen and in February of 2000 he was appointed to the Defense Science Board Task Force on the Impact of DoD Acquisition Policies on the Health of the Defense Industry. He has received the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal; the Bronze Palm to the DoD Distinguished Public Service Medal and the CBO Director's Award for Outstanding Service. A New York native, Dr. Zakheim is a graduate of Columbia University and has also studied at the London School of Economics. He received his doctorate degree from St. Anthony's College at Oxford University.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20010212-2.html

It was an SPC subsidiary, TRIDATA CORPORATION, that oversaw the investigation after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.

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Four years ago, when Zakheim was on presidential candidate George Bush's foreign policy planning team, he told Haaretz the U.S. did not need to play policeman around the globe, and that American military involvement overseas should be reserved for extreme situations, such as the prevention of genocide.

............

From the time when reports about the Bush administration's intention to go to war started to circulate, critics have charged that Jewish neoconservatives in the Pentagon were responsible for dragging the U.S. into war with Iraq, with the intention of protecting Israeli, not American, interests. Proponents of this claim hail from all parts of the political spectrum, starting with arch-conservative Pat Buchanan, and continuing with two Democrats from Capitol Hill, Congressman Jim Moran (Virginia), and Senator Friz Hollings (South Carolina).

"Pat Buchanan, in my view, is an anti-Semite," said Zakheim. "I'm sorry, but you cannot keep saying what he says, and say he's not an anti-Semite. He is an anti-Semite. I know one when I see one."

..........

Alongside such claims about corruption in Saddam Hussein's regime, Zakheim brings up the issue of terror. Given Saddam Hussein's well-known support for Palestinian suicide bombers, "why is it so hard to believe that he had ties with Al-Qaida," Zakheim wonders. "If you make the connection - Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism - then it definitely becomes a world problem," he concludes.

.........


Israelis who worked with Zakheim are full of praise for his professionalism. Though he always upheld American interests, they say, he had a warm place in his heart for Israel and he did as much as he could to help. For instance, after the start of the intifada, when it became clear that Israel's police force lacked equipment to defuse bombs, Zakheim found funds, and arranged a transfer of $28 million for automatic gear used by sappers. Zakheim is proud of his close relations with many Israelis - recently his son was married in Jerusalem, but at the time, a stepson who went on a photo-shoot in Hebron was beaten by settlers.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/441712.html


Iraq Survey Group
Donald Rumsfeld's al Qaeda

By John Stanton and Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writers


And with the ISG's intelligence fusion operation located in Washington, DC, that means Rumsfeld's hands are dirty. There is also a clear line that can be drawn between the ISG and Undersecretary for Plans and Policy Douglas Feith's Office of Special Plans/Office of Northern Gulf Affairs (speculation has been that he is a dual USA-Israeli citizen like Dov Zakheim). Feith reportedly created the disinformation about Iraqi WMD and then Rumsfeld/Cambone allegedly used torture as a tactic to elicit false confessions and exaggerated claims under extreme duress. It is a tactic that SS Commander Heinrich Himmler and Soviet KGB Chief Levrenti Beria practiced so well in Germany and the USSR, respectively. No one claims that the USA and Israel rise to the level of Nazi and Soviet torturers, but, it is too early to say.

Recent evidence offered by General Janis Karpinski, NGO's and investigative reporters, indicates that Israeli interrogators may have been active in Iraqi detention centers. But the Israeli government has stated that any Israelis in Iraq were there on their own. We are inclined to believe them to a point. The problem is that it gives rise to the specter that anti-Arab Israeli xenophobes, including members of the racist and terrorist Kach and Kahane Chai, were participating as either freelance torturers in Iraq or as part of a parallel intelligence operation—separate from Mossad—being run out of Ariel Sharon's office. They, like their American counterparts, make for great recruits. The scary part is that neither government can control them—or, perhaps, does not want to get involved.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/070904Stanton-Madsen/070904stanton-madsen.html

DoD Statement on Jack Shaw and the Iraq Telecommunications Contract
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=743997

[indigobusiness]

4. I guess I'm a little behind the curve here...

as usual.

[burythehatchet]

5. Its all relative

[seemslikeadream]

6. I'm so glad you posted about him indigobusiness

I think he should be talked about more, thanks.
There are some threads about him in Sept. 11 forum.

:hi:

[papau]

7. Interesting - a guy who has dumped on Israel is a Israeli plant LOL :-)

http://www.globes.co.il/DocsEn/did=357233.htm

The anti-Israel postings are fun. (Albeit that he is a Reagan/Bush defend Israel type - but then a lot of non-GOP are also)

The missing "trillion" is the lousy inventory system at the Pentagon - whch I posted on at DU 3 years ago.

The fellow Zakheim is the same guy that chewed up Sharon for complaining about a negative report Zakheim released about Israel (Seems facts are not always important at Indymedia - the let anyone post rule sort of assures that to be the case - but I still like indymedia).

And the plot lines - fantastic!

But I am jealous of Zakheim picking up a great Booz Allen partnership - that is real money and interesting problems to solve. A great job.

[indigobusiness]

24. Yeah, I've gotten grief for posting,, but aren't all points corroborated

in subsequent, more 'legitimate' source, links posted in this thread?

If the story is unfolded truthfully, does it matter who does the unfolding?

[papau]

26. The only point "corroborated" is that he is a neo-Con from Reagan era

The Israeli control of anything US - and the losing of money/equipement into the control of Isreal - is pure Bullshit.

There is the Israel will not be allowed to be destroyed as a Jewish state view - that neocons and indeed most folks hold.

And that view does guide US policy - of late unfairly in my opinion so as to be unfair to the Palestians - but not so greatly unfair as to be a problem to getting a peace agreement.

The inventory programs have been an accounting nightmare for decades - and to "discover" that inventory debits and credits do not balance is to state the obvious.

[indigobusiness]

28. Well then, I stand corrected.

So you think the other points are inaccurate? Should the post be removed as scurrilous? If it is unfair, I don't wish to be associated with it, or seen as promoting it.

I posted this to create a discussion for addressing the charges. Thanks for your input.

[AZCat]

8. Why doesn't Zakheim have a Demopedia entry

He keeps popping up in threads - if any PNAC'er deserves an entry in the Demopedia then he gets my vote.

Of course, it would be nice if someone (wink, wink) wrote entries for all the PNAC signees...

[frictionlessO]

14. PNAC and Neocon Agenda group link for ya!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=307

Its very new but why not help us write all those entries?

:toast:

[MrScorpio]

9. My retirement from the USAF and the money missing at the same time...

Just a coincidence?

Got you thinking, huh?

[indigobusiness]

10. There's some serious larceny going down.

That's been clear to me for some time.

[Old and In the Way]

11. You don't lose a trillion dollars.

I'm sure it's been put to good use in the war without end.

Interesting tie-in with the automated flight systems.....

[seemslikeadream]

12. Like this one?

"Before the final flight on December 1, 1984, more then four years of effort passed trying to set-up final impact conditions considered survivable by the FAA. During those years while 14 flights with crews were flown the following major efforts were underway: NASA Dryden developed the remote piloting techniques necessary for the B-720 to fly as a drone aircraft; General Electric installed and tested four degraders (one on each engine); and the FAA refined AMK (blending, testing, and fueling a full size aircraft). The 14 flights had 9 takeoffs, 13 landings and around 69 approaches, to about 150 feet above the prepared crash site, under remote control. "

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/CID/HTML/index.html

[dennis4868]

13. That dude....

lives down the block from me...what an A hole!

[Name removed]

15. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Old and In the Way]

16. Israel wins, neo-cons win, Saudi Arabia wins, BFEE wins.

The big losers (so far)? Iraq and us.

[dbeach]

17. bushheveks and neo-conthradals are strange pals..

After studying the bush crime family syndicate and their long history of treachery and treason..
may I predict that bush&co will backstab the neo-cons and sacrifice Israel to the war gods...
its the way CEOs operate..work for em then they steal the money and fire you or go bankrupt..
Iraq is practice for what bush has in mind for the good ole USA and to think many Folks like bush...

[paineinthearse]

18. Demand investigation

Send this to

Jim Schweiter Staff Director
House Armed Forces Committee (Dems)
2340 Rayburn HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
phone: [phone]
fax: [phone]

If your Rep is a member, send there:

http://wwwd.house.gov/hasc_democrats/members.html

[dbeach]

19. THANX

I sent a smokin email to my Rep James Langevin whom my family has received help from and I consider a goood man by D.C. standards ..one of the best..

Life is a beach.
Lets keep it that way!

[seemslikeadream]

20. An investigation already underway, though the neo cons tried to stop it

by planting false stories in the press

Defense Official Probed on Contracts


Los Angeles Times
July 07, 2004
T. Christian Miller

Washington -- A senior Defense Department official conducted unauthorized investigations of Iraq reconstruction efforts and used their results to push for lucrative contracts for friends and their business clients, according to current and former Pentagon officials and documents.
John "Jack" Shaw, deputy undersecretary for international technology security, represented himself as an agent of the Pentagon's inspector general in conducting the investigations this year, sources said.

In one case, Shaw disguised himself as an employee of Halliburton Co. and gained access to a port in southern Iraq after he was denied entry by the U.S. military, the sources said.

In that investigation, Shaw found problems with operations at the port of Umm al Qasr, Pentagon sources said. In another, he criticized a competition sponsored by the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority to award cell phone licenses in Iraq.

In both cases, Shaw urged government officials to fix the alleged problems by directing multimillion-dollar contracts to companies linked to his friends, without competitive bidding, according to the Pentagon sources and documents. In the case of the port, the clients of a lobbyist friend won a no- bid contract for dredging.
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/unitedstates/democracy/2253.html

Winds of Change:Troubled Waters Ahead For the Neo Cons


by
Wayne Madsen

The neo-con attack on Shaw was predictable considering their previous attacks on Ambassador Joe Wilson, his wife Valerie Plame, former U.S. Central Command chief General Anthony Zinni, former counter-terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, CIA counter-terrorism agent Michael Scheuer (the "anonymous" author of Imperial Hubris who has recently been gagged by the Bush administration), fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds (who likely discovered a penetration by Israeli and other intelligence assets using the false flag of the Turkish American Council and who also has been gagged by the Bush administration), and all those who took on the global domination cabal. But Shaw showed incredible moxie. When he decided to investigate Pentagon Inspector General Reports that firms tied to Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz were benefiting from windfall profit contracts in Iraq, Shaw decided to go to Iraq himself to find out what was going on. When Shaw was denied entry into Iraq by U.S. military officers (yes, a top level official of the Defense Department was denied access to Iraq by U.S. military personnel!), he decided to sneak into the country disguised as a Halliburton contractor. Using the cover of Cheney's old company to get the goods on Cheney's friends' illegal activities was yet another masterful stroke of genius by Shaw. But it also earned him the wrath of the neo-cons. They soon leaked a story to the Los Angeles Times claiming that Shaw actually snuck into Iraq to ensure that Qualcomm (on whose board sat a friend of Shaw's) was awarded a lucrative cell network contract.

But nothing could be further from the truth. Shaw, who worked for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, represented the Old Guard Republican entity that in August 2003 set up shop in the Pentagon right under the noses of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith to investigate the neo-con cabal and their illegal contract deals. The entity, known as the International Armament and Technology Trade Directorate, was soon shut down as a result of neo-con pressure. Not to be deterred, Shaw continued his investigation of the neo-cons. Although the neo-cons told the Los Angeles Times that the FBI was investigating Shaw, the reverse was the case: the FBI was investigating the neo-cons, particularly Perle and Wolfowitz, for fraudulent activities involving Iraqi contracts. And in worse news for the neo-cons: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was giving the Inspector General's and Shaw's investigations a "wink and a nod" of approval.

The financial stakes for the Pentagon are high - the Iraqi CPA's Inspector General recently revealed that over $1 billion of Iraqi money was missing from the audit books on Iraqi contracts. For Shaw and the FBI, it was a matter of what they suspected for many years - that Perle, Wolfowitz, and their comrades were running entities that ensured favorable treatment for Israeli activities - whether they were business opportunities in a U.S.-occupied Arab country or protecting Israeli spies operating within the U.S. defense and intelligence establishments.

Shaw certainly must have recalled how, during the Reagan administration, an Israeli spy named Jonathan Pollard was able to steal massive amounts of sensitive U.S. intelligence over a long period of time and hand it over to his Israeli control officer, a dangerous and deadly agent provocateur named Rafael "Rafi" Eitan. That had disastrous effects on U.S. intelligence operations throughout the world because some of the documents were handed by the Israelis to the Soviets in return for letting more Soviet Jews emigrate to Israel.

more
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081104_winds_change.shtml




DoD Statement on Jack Shaw and the Iraq Telecommunications Contract


For several months there have been allegations in the press that activities of John A. Shaw, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Technology Security, were under investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DoD IG). The allegations were examined by DoD IG criminal investigators in Baghdad and a criminal investigation was never opened.



Furthermore, attempts to discredit Shaw and his report on Iraqi telecommunications contracting matters were brought to the attention of the DoD IG and were accordingly referred to the FBI.



Shaw carried out his duties in the investigation of Iraqi telecommunications matters pursuant to the authorities spelled out in the Memorandum of Understanding between the DoD IG and the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. Shaw provided a copy of his report to the DOD IG and, at the request of the Coalition Provisional Authority, to the Iraqi National Communications and Media Commission.



Shaw is not now, nor has he ever been, under investigation by the DoD IG. Any questions concerning FBI activities should be addressed to the FBI.
http://www.dod.mil/releases/2004/nr20040810-1103.html

[dbeach]

21. Facinating post...

Madsen has been put down at another blog But I always liked his style..

[seemslikeadream]

22. I wouldn't have known about Shaw if not for Madsen

Tracking weapons
The Pentagon has started an effort with the difficult task of tracking conventional arms transfers around the world and working to fix weak weapons-export controls.

The program is led by John Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, who also is a Pentagon inspector general for international armament and trade through a memorandum of understanding with the Pentagon inspector general.

"We handle international technology-transfer issues, as well as the investigative side of things," said Edward Timperlake, the Pentagon's director of technology assessment, who works with Mr. Shaw.

The focus of the effort is not on weapons of mass destruction. Rather, the group is looking at conventional arms and dual-use items with commercial as well as military applications. The program began after Operation Iraqi Freedom, which uncovered huge stockpiles of foreign weapons in Iraq. The weapons came from a variety of suppliers, including Russia, France and China.
more
http://www.gertzfile.com/gertzfile/ring022704.html


Kuwait Economic Mission Urges Closer U.S. Ties
A high-level delegation from Kuwait came to Washington last week showcasing business opportunities in the nation, particularly regarding reconstruction projects in Iraq. Keeping up the profile of wireless broadband as key in the communications component of such projects, I participated on behalf of WCA in a luncheon Friday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, hosted by the National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce and its new President David Hamod. Featured speakers included Kuwait Minister of Commerce and Industry Abdullah Al-Taweel and the Hon. John A. Shaw, who is Deputy Under Secretary for International Technology Security at the U.S. Department of Defense. A key figure in the reconstruction effort, he described the Coalition Provision Authority website http://www.rebuilding-iraq.net as the best first stop for any would-be contractor. I spoke with the featured speakers at the luncheon, a fairly intimate function introduced by Kuwait's Ambassador to the U.S. and with about 55 attendees - members of the National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce, Kuwait Chamber of Commerce & Industry, relevant U.S. government and Kuwait government agencies, plus Reuters and the Washington Times. These are the kinds of ties that WCA fosters for members through the year, and will be especially prominent during WCA 2004 this June in Washington, DC. For those with more immediate interests in Kuwait opportunities, visit the site of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce & Industry (www.kcci.org.kw ), illustrating a major theme from the Friday luncheon, "Kuwait: A launching pad for the region."
http://www.wcai.com/hs_news2004.htm


New agency for Iraq contracts
by correspondents in London, news.com.au
October 14th, 2003

THE United States will create a new agency, under the aegis of the Pentagon, to oversee the distribution of contracts to rebuild Iraq, a US defence official told a conference today.

The new agency, as yet unnamed, will be introduced at the beginning of next month under the direction of retired admiral David Nash, said Deputy Under-Secretary of Defence for International Technology Security John Shaw.
It will be charged with coordinating sub-contracting work in Iraq, notably by US groups Bechtel and Halliburton, the main contractors in Iraq's reconstruction, Shaw told the Doing Business in Iraq conference.

Shaw admitted there were "divergences" between the US Agency for International Development (USAID) - responsible for the rebuilding of Iraq under the supervision of the State Department - and the Department of Defence over the distribution of sub-contracts.

The US administration was represented by several officials at the conference, which also heard calls for Western firms to set aside their doubts and help to rebuild war-torn Iraq.
http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=1383



Nomination of John A. Shaw To Be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce
September 12, 1991
The President today announced his intention to nominate John A. Shaw, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement. He would succeed Quincy Mellon Krosby.

Since 1988 Dr. Shaw has served as Associate Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce. Prior to this Dr. Shaw served as senior advisor to the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, 1988; and as vice president for Washington Operations for the Hudson Institute, 1987 - 1988.

Dr. Shaw graduated from Williams College, (B.A., 1962) and Cambridge University (M.A., 1967: and Ph.D., 1976). He was born July 1, 1939, in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Shaw is married, has two children, and resides in Washington, DC

http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/papers/1991/91091208.html


Pentagon urges repeal of Iraq phone contracts
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


The Pentagon has asked the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad to cancel three contracts for Iraqi cell phone networks worth about $500 million annually, citing fraud and the companies' links to an Iraqi-born Briton with ties to Saddam Hussein.
A June 14 memorandum from John A. Shaw, deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, says an investigation uncovered "fraud on the Ministry of Communications by Orascom, Atheer and AsiaCell."

The companies are suspected of rigging the bids for the cell phone contracts in favor of Nadhmi Auchi, who owns part of Orascom and a controlling interest in the bank BNP Paribas, which "is the French bank selected by Saddam Hussein to run the Oil for Food program."
"His role in assisting the Saddam regime, to his own immense profit, makes all three firms ineligible under Section 6.1.4 in that all the evidence strongly indicates Auchi had a direct or indirect ownership interest in all three firms at the time of signature, and his role continues today," the memorandum said.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040621-115845-4340r.htm


OSC PRESENTS THIRD ANNUAL PUBLIC SERVANT AWARD
The Office of Special Counsel announced Wednesday its selection of Cindy L. Snyder, a former administrative assistant for budget and accounting at the National Capital Planning Commission, as the third recipient of the Special Counsel's Public Servant Award. The Special Counsel honored Snyder in recognition of the important whistleblower disclosures that she made to OSC concerning violations of law, rule, or regulation and financial mismanagement at the NCPC.

Snyder's disclosures to OSC triggered investigations by the inspector general for the General Services Administration and Clifton, Gunderson, L.L.P., a private accounting firm. Those investigations revealed, among other things, significant financial mismanagement at NCPC, including violations of the Anti-Deficiency Act, a federal law designed to ensure that agencies do not enter obligations or expend funds in excess of their appropriations. The investigations also revealed misuse of a government calling card by NCPC's chief operating officer as well as violations of the federal printing statute. Copies of the investigative reports, as well as the Special Counsel s letter transmitting the reports to the President and Congress are available for inspection by the public.

As a result of Snyder's disclosures and the resulting investigations, the NCPC has implemented a wide variety of procedures to improve financial and budgetary accountability at the agency and to ensure that the procurement of printing services complies with the law. NCPC also took disciplinary action against the COO, whom the investigative reports had identified as the party responsible for the majority of the violations.

In announcing the award, Special Counsel Elaine Kaplan observed, "By coming forward to OSC to make her disclosures, Cindy Snyder made a real difference. Ms. Snyder's disclosures resulted in comprehensive investigations, which revealed significant violations of law as well as financial mismanagement. As a direct result of Ms. Snyder's whistleblowing there have been important reforms at NCPC, which we hope will help that agency maintain public trust and confidence in its operations in the future."

Kaplan also said she was "disappointed by comments in the press, attributed to NCPC's Chief Operating Officer, which unfairly disparaged Snyder's motives in coming forward." She noted, "the use of unfounded personal attacks upon a whistleblower is an unfortunate strategy that is sometimes employed to deflect attention away from the wrongdoing the whistleblower has revealed." By presenting Snyder with the Special Counsel's Public Servant Award, Kaplan stated, "we reject this diversionary tactic and publicly recognize Ms. Snyder's courage and adherence to the highest standards of public service."

The Office of Special Counsel is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency whose basic mission is to guard against prohibited personnel practices, with special emphasis on protecting government whistleblowers. Special Counsel Elaine Kaplan established the Special Counsel's Public Servant Award Program in March 2001. The award was established to recognize the contributions that federal employees make to the public interest when -- often at great personal risk -they make significant disclosures of violations of law, rule, or regulation; gross mismanagement; a gross waste of funds; a serious abuse of official authority; or a specific and substantial danger to the public health and safety.
http://www.fpmi.com/FedNews/june-24-week.html


Thursday, 02-Oct-2003 10:00AM PDT Story from United Press International
Copyright 2003 by United Press International (via ClariNet)

MIAMI, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The Pentagon's inspector general is investigating allegations that the Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., is squirreling away money in its budget for use on a rainy day. House Appropriations Chairman C.W. "Bill" Young, R-Fla., questioned Pentagon Comptroller Dov Zakheim at budget hearing Tuesday, and Zakheim denied any wrongdoing. Young was not satisfied, and is expected to pursue the issue. He wants to know if the Pentagon intentionally deceived Congress by hiding the money.

Zakheim said it is not policy to handle funds in any improper manner.

He denied any "sleight of hand" and said no one was instructed to hide anything from the congressional staff. Zakheim said, however, he was limited in his response because of the ongoing audit of the issue, which originally was sparked by a telephone call to the Pentagon's Defense Hotline. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said he has asked the Senate Armed Services Committee, of which he is a member, and the General Accounting Office to conduct their own investigation of the practice. The St. Petersburg Times said in an exclusive report Sunday the Special Operations Command inflated its budget by $20 million in order to have that money for discretionary use later. On Thursday the paper reported the Justice Department was looking into an additional $25 million.

Young said although $20 million is not a significant amount in the context of a $400 billion Pentagon budget, it could be significant if the practice is widespread throughout the military services. The fiscal year ended Tuesday, but he did not know how the money was spent or where it went. The audit by the Pentagon inspector general began in August. "Our objective will be to review the allegations to the Defense Hotline concerning funds 'parked' at the U.S. Special Operations Command by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)," said a letter from the inspector general's office to Gen. Charles Holland, who has since retired as Special Operations commander.

Officers at the command at Tampa would not comment on the story except to say they were cooperating with the inspector general's investigation.

Among several documents The St. Petersburg Times obtained during its investigation was e-mail sent by Special Operations Command Comptroller Elaine Kingston to colleagues in February 2002. She said an unidentified official in the Pentagon comptroller's office had asked her if the command could "park" $40 million of research-and-development money in its proposed budget for the 2003 fiscal year. She said the Pentagon had it parked with another agency but that agency developed a problem with it. She said there was no way she could take the $40 million, but agreed to deal with $20 million.

The programs where the money was placed included missile warning systems on aircraft, infrared equipment on helicopters and radar system. The amounts ranged from $2 million to $5 million. The command is in charge of 46,000 Special Operations operating around the world including Iraq and Afghanistan. Kingston said in the e-mail message she coached her colleagues on how to account for the money and avoid attracting congressional attention to it. "We are doing a favor for the OSD (Office of the Secretary of Defense) which we hope will benefit the command if we should need additional (research and development funds)," the message said. "It is common practice for OSD comptroller to keep small withholds of funds in each appropriation to cover pop up emergencies throughout the year of execution," she wrote. "So OSD goes out to all of the services and (Defense) agencies to ask for help in justifying those dollars against existing programs in the budget."

Young said at the hearing on President Bush's request for $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan Tuesday that he wants to know if it is a common practice. "If it's not, what brought this about on his occasion? And if it is a normal practice, since the Special Operations Command is one of your smaller budgets I wonder how many other agencies might have been asked to park money in this program?" Young asked.

Zakheim said the word "parked" was unfortunate, but said he thinks "the method is tried-and-true and very much above board. But I can't speak to the audit for obvious reasons."

Young is clearly not finished and called it "an obvious attempt to keep from Congress what was happening. I think that would make you suspicious. It makes me a little suspicious." The General Accounting Office, Congress's investigative arm, said it was not familiar with the practice of "parking," as described in the e-mail message. The Anti-Deficiency Act mandates that money appropriated by Congress can only be used for the purpose specified by Congress when it passes the budget. Other federal laws and regulations also govern the content of budget proposals presented to Congress.

http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/dp/Uus-defense-young-analysis.RUt1_DO2.html


Monday, October 13

in iraq

Al Jazeera reports in US launches Iraq contract agency that a new agency is being created to facilitate sub-contracting work in Iraq. The new agency was apparently announced at the most recent conference held in London.

Oddly enough, the new agency will be under the Pentagon, not the State Department. The US administration appears to have difficulty with recognizing the necessity of clearly defined boundaries. All subcontractors will now be viewed as working directly as US military contractors. Given the current status of security, that does not appear to be a wise and well thought out strategy.
The US said it plans to create a new agency, under the auspices of the Pentagon, to deal with awarding contracts related to the rebuilding effort in Iraq.

The new agency, which has yet to be named, will start work at the beginning of November under the direction of retired admiral David Nash, according to the US Deputy Under Secretary of Defence for International Technology Security, John Shaw. The unit will be charged with coordinating the distribution of sub-contracting work in Iraq, notably by US groups Bechtel and Halliburton, the main contractors in Iraq's reconstruction.

Shaw agreed there were “divergences” over the process between the US Agency for International Development (USAID) - which awarded the main contracts under the supervision of the State Department - and the Pentagon.

more
http://blogistonpost.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_blogistonpost_archive.html


Iraq Telecom

Information Gatekeepers Inc. to Hold Half-Day Executive Briefing on Opportunities in the“Telecommunications Reconstruction in Iraq” in Washington DC Sept. 29As part of its “Executive Telecom Briefing Series,” Information Gatekeepers Inc. (IGI) is planninga half-day briefing on “Telecommunications Reconstruction in Iraq” on September 29, 2003 between8 am and noon. The program will include four to six speakers from Government and Industry whohave been intimately involved in the planning and funding of projects for the telecommunicationsreconstruction in Iraq. The keynote speaker will be the Honorable John Shaw, Deputy Undersecretaryfor International Technology Security, office of the Secretary of Defense.Some of the topics to be covered at the briefing include:-Status of the telecommunications reconstruction in Iraq-Plans for funding of major projects-Major players in the reconstruction program-Present state of the Iraq networks-Contracts awarded and planned-How to obtain information on new projects-Meet with key officials from government and industry
more
http://www.biz-lib.com/info/28908.pdf


WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has asked Coalition Provisional Authority head L. Paul Bremer to revoke the three regional mobile-phone licenses in Iraq, according to documents and e-mails obtained today by RCR Wireless News.
The Department of Defense said action is necessary in light of an investigation that found possible illegal activity and fraud in connection with the three wireless operators and their alleged ties to a former business associate of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

“Wholly aside from allegations of criminal wrongdoing, this memorandum is to inform you that my investigation also uncovered a fraud on the Ministry of Communications by Orascom, Atheer and AsiaCell,” said John Shaw, DoD’s undersecretary for international technology security, in a June 14 correspondence to Bremer.
Shaw said the matter has been referred to the FBI for further action.

It is unclear whether Bremer, attempting to engineer next week’s handover of political sovereignty to a reconstituted Iraqi government—will act on Shaw’s recommendation.

“To fail to act to revoke the licenses before June 30 will in effect ratify the CPA role in the corruption of the process over the past year. Prompt action to rescind the licenses, however, will send a clear message to those who would use the transition to ensure the success of similar nefarious schemes in other sectors,” said Shaw in a June 15 e-mail to Bremer.
A Bremer aide told Shaw the matter has been referred to the CPA general counsel.

more
http://www.rcrnews.com /

Congress made a different judgment. It deemed all crimes within the INA's definition of "aggravated felony" to be particularly serious when committed by an alien, because such crimes are integral to international terrorism, drug trafficking, and organized immigration crime, which do threaten physical (and other) harms. See, e.g., 1994 House Hearing, supra, at 124, 125, 181 (connecting visa and passport fraud to terrorism and drug-trafficking); 1989 House Hearing, supra, at 18 (statement of Jack Shaw, Assistant Commissioner, INS) (listing immigration fraud, along with crimes of violence and drug smuggling, as "activity represents the greatest threat to public safety"), 26 (racketeering is "major law enforcement problem[] involving aliens").

Congress was especially intent upon addressing the harms associated with alien smuggling and related offenses. See H.R. Rep. No. 22, supra, at 7-8 (discussing alien smuggling rings and their involvement in other crimes); H.R. Rep. No. 469, supra, Pt. 1, at 116 ("Alien smuggling is often linked to other crimes, such as drug smuggling and trafficking, prostitution, racketeering, and severe labor law violations."); Testimony of Doris Meissner, supra, 1995 WL 110438 (organized immigration rings engage in criminal activities and enterprises including counterfeiting, illegal acquisition of firearms and explosives, narcotics smuggling and trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering activity such as extortion, bribery, obstruction of investigation by violence, and financial fraud); 1989 House Hearing, supra, at 36 (statement of Jack Shaw) (discussing crimes of alien smuggling rings), 44 (same). As Representative McCollum of Florida explained, aliens in organized crime rings "extort large sums from * * * illegal immigrants in return for passage to the United States and for the fraudulent documents they need to obtain entry. In many cases, these illegal immigrants * * * are forced into involuntary servitude, prostitution, and other crimes in order to repay these fees. In some cases * * *, the attempt to smuggle these illegals goes tragically wrong and people die." 141 Cong. Rec. 4394 (1995). Representative Kennedy likened alien-smuggling to the "slave trade." Id. at 4395-4396; see H.R. Rep. No. 469, supra, Pt. 1, at 117 ("many smuggled aliens are victims, more than beneficiaries," of alien smuggling). Congress thus reasonably determined that smuggling-related crimes are "serious crimes that threaten public safety and national security." H.R. Rep. No. 469, supra, Pt. 1, at 107.

more
http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/01-1...

[dbeach]

23. What if..

the chikenhawks who are now the neo-cons were told by Mossad to AVOID VN war at all costs..like they knew there would be hazards like Agent Orange,ptsd,,drug abuse and a planned rejection of the war by the media..I may be out there but MANY VN Veterans are not thrillled when Iraq War is media darling yet VN was hated..
I am VN Vet and many guys dont like bush many voted for kerry...BUT have many unanswered questions about VN and this Iraq war

It was said that we would NEVER repeat the mistakes of VN...bush and neo-criminals threw that one away..

Madsen is a vet {too young for VN but he is a Vet}

[OKNancy]

31. He has been wrong about so many things

it's hard to take him seriously. I recall his predictions about massive vote fraud in California, and of course his recent mess with the last election where he was totally debunked. Also, I've seen minor errors that a real investigator would never make.

[paineinthearse]

27. Thank you for the details.

You've been following this well. However, I don't see in the articles exactly who is doing the investigagtion?

[seemslikeadream]

29. It seems there are two investigations on going

MIAMI, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The Pentagon's inspector general is investigating allegations that the Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., is squirreling away money in its budget for use on a rainy day.
http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/dp/Uus-defense-young-analysis.RUt1_DO2.html

the one by John Shaw


and then there's this

DOD IG is investigating Zakheim, who reported directly to Paul Wolfowitz. Apparently there is the matter of the money that was appropriated for Afghan reconstruction that got sidetracked for the invasion of Iraq before there was any Congressional authorization for doing so. The Anti-Deficiency Act.


But I have not heard anything about how they are proceeding.

more from Madsen

The financial stakes for the Pentagon are high - the Iraqi CPA's Inspector General recently revealed that over $1 billion of Iraqi money was missing from the audit books on Iraqi contracts. For Shaw and the FBI, it was a matter of what they suspected for many years - that Perle, Wolfowitz, and their comrades were running entities that ensured favorable treatment for Israeli activities - whether they were business opportunities in a U.S.-occupied Arab country or protecting Israeli spies operating within the U.S. defense and intelligence establishments.

Shaw certainly must have recalled how, during the Reagan administration, an Israeli spy named Jonathan Pollard was able to steal massive amounts of sensitive U.S. intelligence over a long period of time and hand it over to his Israeli control officer, a dangerous and deadly agent provocateur named Rafael "Rafi" Eitan. That had disastrous effects on U.S. intelligence operations throughout the world because some of the documents were handed by the Israelis to the Soviets in return for letting more Soviet Jews emigrate to Israel.

Shaw must have also recalled that when a young National Security Council staffer named Douglas Feith was suspected of being an Israeli agent of influence, he was stripped of his job and security clearance by then- National Security Adviser Bill Clark but soon managed to find another job (and another top level clearance) under then Deputy Defense Secretary Richard Perle.

And it was certainly known that during Pollard's subsequent appeal of his life sentence for spying for Israel, one of his attorneys was none other than right-wing stalwart and neo-con friend, Ted Olsen, the former Solicitor General of the United States under Ashcroft and the person in charge of all U.S. attorneys. It was from Olsen's cadre of U.S. Attorneys that special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald was selected to investigate the Valerie Plame / Brewster, Jennings White House leak to the media and perhaps other high crimes by neo-con officials of the Bush administration.

Fitzgerald continues to expand his case against the leakers of Plame's identity. But he may be getting more than he originally bargained for. As his investigation expanded into the bowels of the Pentagon, he was bound to discover that the treachery of the neo-cons was not merely confined to the leaking of the name of a covert CIA officer - disastrous in itself - but coupled with other activities that call into question the loyalties and financial dealings of those who swore an oath to the U.S. Constitution.

With Ashcroft's deputy, James Comey, the person who appointed Fitzgerald, finding himself increasingly frozen out of Ashcroft's inner sanctum deliberations, it is clear that the neo-cons are worried about what Fitzgerald is discovering and how far his investigation will go. Also unusual was the fact that as Fitzgerald's case began to gain steam - with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney both retaining criminal defense attorneys - FBI Director Robert Mueller suddenly transferred the lead FBI agent on the Plame case, John C. Eckenrode, a well-seasoned 29-year veteran of the bureau, to head up the FBI's Philadelphia office. An FBI spokesman in Philadelphia said that such sudden transfers, in the middle of major investigations, sometimes, just "happen."


Make no mistake about it: the violation of the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 by the disclosure of Plame's identity and that of her non-official cover corporate umbrella organization (Brewster, Jennings & Associates) along with its official counterpart, the CIA's Nonproliferation Center - had a disastrous impact on the ability of the United States to track the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction around the world. At least one anonymous star (representing a covert U.S. agent killed while working abroad) placed on the CIA's Wall of Honor during the past year was reportedly a direct result of the disastrous disclosures from Cheney's office. The political vendettas of the neo-cons in exposing Plame's dangerous work and retaliating against Wilson's revelations about Bush's use of bogus intelligence regarding a fanciful Iraqi uranium shopping spree in Niger ensured that America's military-intelligence complex was going to seek a final accounting with the neo-cons. And a final accounting they are getting, in spades.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081104_winds_change.shtml

[indigobusiness]

30. You really do have a handle on this.

I don't, but it is abundantly clear that abuses have become systemic and far reaching. This is a crippling force, at work in many ways.

[paineinthearse]

34. I'm in touch with a house armed services member's military staffer.

PM me if you have any information, I will relay.

[paineinthearse]

35. No news to report....stay tuned. nt

[dbeach]

25. Check out these 2 refs..

Dov the war monger had access to lots of stuff...
I read at LF This crime cannot remained unsolved or this Republic is done..JFK remains unsolved...Its easy for me to connect the dots
but I have been attacked on many issues at blogs for being too outspoken.. there is lots of debunkers at every blog...
BUT the crime remains unsolved..Folks are demanding main media reports to expose bush lies but that is majical thinking .That source is unreliable seems to be a montra when in doubt...
I could see this guy being the fall guy if the keystone cops get their act together..

I with ya Mr. Indigo..wake em up!

http://www.rense.com/general62/murdre.htm
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_government&Number=293369234

[realFedUp]

32. Send this one around to MSM

[indigobusiness]

33. This is surely not under their radar.

Do you think?

[dbeach]

36. we are not all waiting for help from the MSM..

or as I call it the CAEMwho sold out to bushfraud in 11/00 amd longer ago than that..
I don't need CBS or CNN to ok my sources
If my source is wrong..well I sorry..The criminals will not make this truth seeking easy and wil continue to divide us at every turn while using CAEM to spread disinfo and use their provacateurs to do same on every blog..
But you know all that..!
I am a VN Veteran who was against bushfraud from start and against all these corporat wars for profit..
Turn, turn, turn ..time for war,time for peace..I swear its NOT too late..

[struggle4progress]

37. kick