Payments for Perle

[realFedUp]

(thanks, democrats.com)

__Payments for Perle

Ari Berman writes: "An odd thing happened when a European TV station approached Richard Perle for an interview... the station badly wanted Perle, as chairman of the influential Defense Policy Board, to articulate the Pentagon's Iraq policy. But Perle demanded a fee. Though startled by the request, the news station violated its strict no-pay policy and obliged the chairman. During and after his chairmanship, Perle used his insider status to demand fees for appearances on a number of foreign broadcasts, which included British, Canadian, Japanese and South Korean TV. Fees ranged from under $100 to $900... but federal regulations covering officials in his capacity make no distinctions based on amount. Nor is this the first assertion of dubious dealings by Perle. In the past few months, The New Yorker and the New York Times have both raised serious questions about whether Perle has used his government post for private gain."
http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030818&s=berman

[mrfrapp]

1. Interesting.

Hmmm, interesting. Perle was almost a permanant feature on the BBC a few months ago. As a licence payer (I live in the UK) I will be very interested to find out if he was paid or not.

(This may have been mentioned in the article, but I can't reach it at the moment.)

[realFedUp]

2. kick

seems to be an odd concept to get paid to talk
about the policies you and your administration are
trying to push...