Military Industrial Complex keeps on rollin'

[The2ndWheel]

http://www.irconnect.com/noc/press/pages/news_releases.mhtml?d=84074

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2005 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) confirmed today that President George W. Bush has announced his intent to nominate Donald C. Winter, 57, to become Secretary of the Navy. Winter currently serves as corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman's Mission Systems sector, a position he has held since January 2000.

Given the time demands of the confirmation process and to avoid any perception of conflict of interest, Winter will step down immediately from his current position. Until the hearings are concluded, he will report to Ronald D. Sugar, Northrop Grumman's chairman, chief executive officer and president, as an executive advisor to the CEO's office.
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Avoid any perception of conflict of interest? Good job guys, way to avoid :applause:

[annabanana]

1. Ah good! More thieves in charge...

B*shCoInc just can't seem to get enough of them.

[acmejack]

2. Seamless integration

In engineering, very desirable, in government, considerably less so.

[Beaver Tail]

3. Outgoing Speeches

George Washington

While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in Union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from Union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves, which so frequently afflict neighbouring countries not tied together by the same governments, which their own rivalships alone would be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and embitter. Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.

Dwight Eisenhower

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.