Posted on 11/16/2007 6:44:57 AM PST by khnyny
"I am not my brother's keeper," Howard "Cookie" Krongard, the State Department's inspector general, testified to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday.
As Cookie surely must know, that excuse hasn't worked since Genesis. But it was a fitting contribution to the modern-day Cain-and-Abel tale that unfolded before lawmakers' eyes in the Rayburn Building. In this case, the players weren't Cain and Abel, but Cookie and his brother Buzzy. Biblical scholars believe the first fratricide was committed with an ass's jawbone, but the weapon in this case was a uniquely Washington cudgel: the conflict of interest.
Cookie, under fire for allegedly quashing probes of the infamous Blackwater security contractor, began his testimony by angrily denying the "ugly rumors" that his brother, former CIA official Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard, is on Blackwater's advisory board. But during a recess, Cookie called Buzzy and learned that -- gulp -- the ugly rumors are true: His brother is on the board.
When the lawmakers returned, Cookie revised and extended his testimony. "I had not been aware of that," Cookie told the congressmen. "I hereby recuse myself from any matters having to do with Blackwater."
The lawmakers reacted with Old Testament fury.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
BTW, in case anyone wonders, the title is spelled the way it appears in the WP.
Is this Cookie fool an admin. appointee? Where do these morons come from. He has Gonzalez syndrome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Krongard
“Howard J. “Cookie”[1] Krongard (born December 12, 1940), is a political appointee in the government of President George W. Bush. Krongard is head of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State. His position is known as the State Inspector General or State IG.
Krongard is the brother of former CIA executive director Alvin “Buzzy” Krongard.”
UPDATE:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/world/bal-te.briefs17nov17,0,4466861.story
[A.B. Krongard quits Blackwater panel
WASHINGTON // A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard, brother of State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, quit as an adviser to Blackwater Worldwide yesterday, two days after the relationship with the security contractor was sharply criticized by a House committee. The panel plans to call Buzzy Krongard as a witness to determine whether Howard Krongard spoke truthfully during a hearing into allegations that he has thwarted investigations into Blackwater USA. Howard Krongard told the panel he didn’t know his brother was a Blackwater advisory board member. Buzzy Krongard, of Lutherville, says he told his brother of his position with Blackwater weeks earlier. Yesterday, panel Chairman Henry A. Waxman, a California Democrat, said he will invite the brothers to a hearing the week of Dec. 3 “to provide members the opportunity to assess whether the inspector general provided truthful testimony to the committee.”]
LOL. You can’t even make this stuff up.
No wonder Iraqi contractors have gotten so much of our tax payers money, without any oversight.
What a crook. & there’s plenty more behind & ahead of
“Cookie”
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