JULY 2004 or earlier : (NANA PACIFIC / GUARDIAN NET CASE : SHAW ACCUSES US & IRAQI OFFICIALS OF TAKING BRIBES) [Pentagon deputy undersecretary for international technology security John A. "Jack"] Shaw later wrote his own report on the cellular phone controversy, accusing U.S. and top Iraqi officials of taking bribes. The Pentagon's inspector general referred the report [written by Shaw accusing US and top Iraqi officials of taking bribes] to the FBI. ...One Pentagon official [later] said Shaw had repeatedly been asked to produce evidence to support his allegations, but had failed to do so. ----- "Pentagon Ousts Official Under FBI Investigation [Shaw: Russians took 380 tons, friends got deals]," by T. Christian Miller, Yahoo, Dec 11, 2004
JULY 2004 : (PENTAGON : NANA PACIFIC / GUARDIAN NET CASE : SHAW REFUSES OFFER TO BE TRANSFERRED FROM HIS POSITION TO ANOTHER POST WITHIN DoD) After the round of accusations and counteraccusations, and with the FBI investigation pending, Pentagon officials in July attempted to transfer [Pentagon deputy undersecretary for international technology security John A. "Jack"] Shaw from his position to another post within the Defense Department, according to a senior Pentagon official. Shaw refused. "He was asked to seek another position in the department," a senior official said. "At that point, if we could find a spot, we were happy to do that." ----- "Pentagon Ousts Official Under FBI Investigation [Shaw: Russians took 380 tons, friends got deals]," by T. Christian Miller, Yahoo, Dec 11, 2004
2004 befor Dec : (LA TIMES REPORT ON PENTAGON OFFICIAL JOHN A "JACK" SHAW) [Pentagon deputy undersecretary for international technology security John A. "Jack"] Shaw, whose activities were detailed in the Los Angeles Times earlier this year [2004], was one of a few high-ranking U.S. officials who drew the scrutiny of investigators looking into how billions in taxpayer dollars were being spent in Iraq to rebuild that country. Shaw allegedly tried to steer two contracts, one involving telecommunications and a second involving dredging at an Iraqi port, to companies linked to longtime friends or clients of longtime friends. After the allegations against him surfaced last spring, Shaw responded with a report of his own, charging that one of the U.S. officials accusing him had taken bribes in a conspiracy to place Iraq's cellular phone network under the control of a former Saddam Hussein ally. ----- "Pentagon Ousts Official Under FBI Investigation [Shaw: Russians took 380 tons, friends got deals]," by T. Christian Miller, Yahoo, Dec 11, 2004
Shaw popped up on radar during the "October Surprise" Al Qaa Qaa Missing explosives "scandal" the NY Times was touting back when Kerry was trying to run for prez in 2004:
OCTOBER 25- or was it the 18?, 2004 Monday : (NY TIMES BREAKS AL QAQAA "MISSING EXPLOSIVES" STORY) The NYTIMES urgently reported on Monday in an apprent October Surprise: The Iraqi interim government and the U.N. nuclear agency have warned the United States that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are now missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.
... Jumping on the TIMES exclusive, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry blasted the Bush administration for its failure to "guard those stockpiles." "This is one of the great blunders of Iraq, one of the great blunders of this administration," Kerry said.
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ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
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CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
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MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
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CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times
------ "Drudge now reporting in "NBCNEWS: CACHE OF EXPLOSIVES VANISHED FROM SITE IN IRAQ BEFORE TROOPS ARRIVED... " that Iraq depot story was shopped to CBS' 60 minutes before reported by NYT, " Drudge Report, Posted on 10/25/2004
OCTOBER 25, 2004 : (PENTAGON OFFICIALS POINT OUT THAT IRAQ HAD ALREADY ADMITTED TO BREAKING THE SEALS AND MOVING TONS OF THE EXPLOSIVES BEFORE UN INSPECTORS REENTERED THE COUNTRY IN 2002) But Pentagon officials said yesterday [Oct 25, 2004] that Iraq had already admitted to breaking the IAEA seals and moving tons of the explosives from the Al Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad, before U.N. inspectors re-entered the country in 2002.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...[Oct 26, 2004]----- "Pentagon responds to missing-explosives report," By Rowan Scarborough, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, Published October 26, 2004
OCTOBER 2004 : (JOHN A SHAW TELLS THE WASHINGTON TIMES' GERTZ THAT HE HAD RECEIVED FOREIGN INTEL SHOWING THAT RUSSIAN SPECIAL FORCES UNITS WERE INVOLVED IN REMOVING WMD FROM IRAQ BEFORE THE US INVASION IN MARCH 2003) In October, Mr. Shaw told The Washington Times that he had received foreign intelligence data showing that Russian special forces units were involved in an effort to remove Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in the weeks before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003.-------- "Pentagon ousts official who tied Russia, Iraq arms, " Bill Gertz, The Washington Times, December 30, 2004
OCTOBER 27, 2004 Wednesday : (SHAW TELLS THE WASHINGTON TIMES ABOUT INTEL INDICATING RUSSIAN FORCES CONDUCTED DISPERSAL OPERATION BETWEEN JAN AND MARCH 2003) John A. Shaw, who told The Washington Times on Wednesday that recent intelligence reports indicate Russian special forces units took part in a sophisticated dispersal operation from January 2003 to March 2003 to move key weapons out of Iraq. ------ "Photos point to removal of weapons," By Bill Gertz, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 10/29/04, http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041028-115519-3700r.htm
OCTOBER 28, 2004 or before (INTERSECTION OF AL QAQAA "MISSING MUNITIONS" CASE & NANA PACIFIC / GUARDIAN NET CASE : SHAW, WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE PENTAGON PRESS OFICE, SAYS HE BELIEVES RUSSIAN COMMANDOS REMOVED THE EXPLOSIVES FROM IRAQ DAYS BEFORE THE COALITION INVASION IN MARCH; RUMSFELD SAYS HE "CANNOT VALIDATE THAT EVEN SLIGHTLY") [Pentagon deputy undersecretary for international technology security John A. "Jack"] Shaw most recently made news late in the presidential campaign, when he inserted himself into the controversy surrounding a report that up to 380 tons of high-grade explosives had disappeared from an Iraqi storage bunker after U.S. troops had failed to secure it.
As Democrats highlighted the story, calling it an example of the administration's failings in Iraq, Shaw was quoted Oct. 28 by the Financial Times and the Washington Times as saying he believed that Russian commandos had spirited the explosives out of Iraq in the days before the March 2003 invasion. Conservative media outlets seized on Shaw's remarks as proof that Bush had done nothing wrong. But Rumsfeld distanced himself from Shaw's report, saying he "cannot validate that even slightly."
Shaw's remarks on the missing explosives — made without the approval of DiRita's press office — apparently were the breaking point that led to the demand for his resignation. Shaw said in his letter that he was asked to resign for having exceeded his "authority and brief." [* My note: If it was true, he may have unwittingly given the Russians a heads up on how good our intel on their activities was and is. If not true, not such a big deal as a leak would be.] Shaw defended his decision, however, saying that he had to get the information about the Russian commandos out as quickly as possible in the heat of the campaign. "I realized I was probably the only person in the country who could disprove the story" of the missing munitions, he said. ----- "Pentagon Ousts Official Under FBI Investigation [Shaw: Russians took 380 tons, friends got deals]," by T. Christian Miller, Yahoo, Dec 11, 2004
DECEMBER 10, 2004 : (JOHN A SHAW IS "DISMISSED" .... HE CLAIMS IT WAS FOR EXCEEDING HIS AUTHORITY- PENTAGON SAYS REORGANIZATION ELIMINATED HIS JOB) A Pentagon official who publicly disclosed information showing Russian involvement in moving Iraqi weapons out of that country has been dismissed. John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security and formerly an aide to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, was forced to leave his position Dec. 10 as the result of a "reorganization" that eliminated his job, defense officials said.
Mr. Shaw said he had been asked to resign for "exceeding his authority" in disclosing the information, a charge he called "specious." -------- "Pentagon ousts official who tied Russia, Iraq arms, " Bill Gertz, The Washington Times, December 30, 2004
[* My note: Shaw tries to imply he was fired because he was out of turn when he 'leaked' the Russians removed the explosives from al QaQaa in Iraq- but there was some effort to sideline him much earlier as you can see by the Pentagon's effort to transfer him to another post in July 2004]
Note that he was at one time an employee over at the Dept of Commerce... I wonder if he was there back when Clinton was using commerce to approve tech transfers to China. I also wonder if this guy is a buddy of Pat Lang.
Great read
THANK YOU for that information! ... is that Lexis Nexis?