Pentagon Ousts Official Under FBI Investigation [Shaw: Russians took 380 tons, friends got deals]

Yahoo ^ | Dec 11, 2004 | T. Christian Miller

[Mike Fieschko]

WASHINGTON

[leadpenny]

Wow! This could get even uglier. He ain't gonna go quietly.

[Just mythoughts]

What a freaking mess.


SO I expect wee willie Kristol and the speech 'god' McCain to once again on the 'sunday shows', demand Rummy leave.

[piasa]

After the allegations against him surfaced last spring, Shaw responded with a report of his own...

Pretty funny - he wants to portray himself as a whistleblower but didn't blow the whistle until he got caught with his hands in the cookie jar.

[Cicero]

Ahmad Chalabi is mixed up in these charges, I see.

I still can't make out whether Chalabi is one of the good guys, with maybe a little corruption on the side, or one of the bad guys. I'm inclined to believe the military command rather than the State Department and the CIA, who went after him, but who knows?

Bush has to work with the bureacracies that are in place, and no doubt there's plenty of corruption, malfeasance, and incompetence just waiting to happen.

[piasa]

This tale eplains a lot about some past timed leak stories.

Also, check this out:

Shaw, 65, is a longtime government employee who served in the White House under Presidents Ford, Nixon and Reagan and was an associate deputy secretary in the Department of Commerce.

So, let me guess... we're supposed to believe that Shaw didn't serve under Carter, Bush Sr. and Clinton? Never served under Carter or Clinton in particular?

Reeks of the BS stories we were told that Wesley Clark was really a Republican, that former amb. Joe Wilson was nonpartisan and leaned pubbie, that Richard Clarke was a pubbie, etc. NOne of them were as advertised.

[Valin]

bump

[piasa]

As much as the French & the Democrats & some others who took bribes from Saddam Hussein hate Chalabi, I tend to think Chalabi's an OK figure. They've flung an awful lot of mud his way and have had a lot of money to do it yet haven't been able to get anything but inuendo to stick.

[piasa]

As for Shaw- he sounds like a perfect advisor to Kerry in 2008:

At the same time, he began championing a company called Guardian Net, whose board included longtime friend Don DeMarino, to win a contract to provide a police and fire radio system to Iraq, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents.

Shaw urged top CPA officials to award the contract to Nana Pacific, a small business run by Alaska Natives. Nana, which had no experience in the Middle East or in telecommunications networks, then planned to subcontract the work to Guardian Net, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents.

Under special federal contracting guidelines designed to help small and minority businesses, firms like Nana Pacific have the ability to win contracts of any size without going through the competitive bidding process usually required to protect taxpayer dollars.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[piasa]

"I realized I was probably the only person in the country who could disprove the story" of the missing munitions, he said.

Oh, bullhockey.

[Prost1]

I think the message "served in the White House" is to indicate he was closer to the executive branch at those times vs being in the Department of Commerce or the Department of Defense...

Nevertheless, I agree. The wording attempts to paint him as a long time Republican operative.

[piasa]

From another web site:

Mr. Don DeMarino, National Chairman of US-Arab Chamber of Commerce, and Founding Director and Member of the Executive Committee of US-Iraq Business Alliance

[Mike Fieschko]

Thanks for the info. This story's like the Gordian knot.

[jb6]

bump, sweat irony. :0)

[jb6]

Of course he won't, he's got some 30,000 tons of explosives that the Russian spetznaz ghost division gave him.

[jb6]

What makes sense is Shaw "leaking" a story about the missing explosives to make Bush look like he's lost controls and under cut Putin, as the only world leader who came out for Bush.

[Fedora]

Thanks much. I wonder if there are any links here to this individual, whom I regard as highly suspicious:

Origins of the India Caucus, the Foreign Lobbying Body for Offshore Outsourcing American Jobs to India

Robin Raphael, former assistant secretary of state for South Asia, is also one of the reasons, perhaps the catalysing factor, for the India Caucus being set up.

Note from Rescue American Jobs: Robin Raphael is the same person who announced her support for the Taliban in the United Nations in 1996.

The Left Coaster: UN-locking The Iraq Lock

A senior Russian diplomat suggested that the oil-for-food "scandal" is an invention of conservative activists in the United States who promoted the theory that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. "Are they doing these hearings alongside with the WMD inquiries?" Russia's acting U.N. ambassador, Gennady Gatilov, asked a reporter. "I personally have very big doubts about any possible corruption on the part of the United Nations."

U.S. and U.N. officials say they have been aware of abuses in the program since late 2000. But they said they could find little hard proof until the collapse of Saddam. That's when Iraqi civil servants told U.S. officials the leadership charged a cash commission of at least 10 percent on every contract since 2001. "It was the ministry officials themselves who came to us and said, 'Here's what's been going on. Here is the system, here are the percentages,'" Robin Raphael, the State Department's Iraq reconstruction coordinator, told the Senate.

[Cindy]

That's interesting piasa.
Thanks for the ping.