Posted on 11/29/2002 1:41:13 AM PST by kattracks
UN officials defended hiring the kinky co-founder of an S&M group as an Iraqi weapons inspector - saying his personal life is his own business.
Harvey John (Jack) McGeorge is seen on leatheru.com Web site. Harvey John (Jack) McGeorge also lacks a specialized university degree - although he was once honored with a "doctor of S&M arts and letters" from "Leather University."
McGeorge, who comes from Woodbridge, Va., is in New York waiting to be sent to Iraq as a munitions analyst.
"He is someone who has expertise in warheads and munitions, and that's what's important," said Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission. "Nobody's suggested that he's done anything illegal, have they? The UN doesn't check into people's personal lives."
McGeorge's bizarre background was exposed in yesterday's Washington Post, which found the information by searching various Web sites.
McGeorge, 53, is a former Secret Service agent and the president of the Virginia security firm Public Safety Group. He has appeared many times on TV as an explosives expert, analyzing the Cole, Oklahoma City and Africa embassy bombings.
He's also the founder of Black Rose, a Washington-area "pansexual" S&M club, where he helped produce a guide for "Dungeon Monitors" for the group's Web site.
As the former chairman of the board of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, he worked to safeguard the rights of the "SM-leather-fetish, swing and polyamory communities," according to the Web site.
And as a member of the "faculty" of a three-day "Leather University" conference in Florida, McGeorge taught the basics of rope bondage and more. Other classes included "Bloodsports 101," "Flagellation 201" and "Pervitibles 101."
McGeorge could not be reached for comment, but he told The Post: "I am who I am. I am not ashamed of who I am - not one bit."
Still, he said he'd offer to resign, saying he didn't want to damage the UN.
WM BDSM seeks partner. Expert in warheads and munitions.
Heh heh.
I think the UN does a great job of damaging itself. It does not need him to do that.
Has anyone seen his analyses of those bombings? Does anyone know anything about his security firm -- what sort of job they do, how well they do it?
If the guy knows his stuff, who cares what he does in private? Except whoever it was who told the media about it. Perhaps that someone wants a person who knows *less* to take over that position? Perhaps that someone wants to embarrass, derail, or delay the entire inspection process? Or, considering the stress placed on his lack of a formal degree, perhaps that someone is angling for McGeorge's replacement to be a person with formal credentials (but perhaps less practical knowledge), which appointment would be advantageous to that someone.
Was the report that Hatfill (FBI's current person of interest in the anthrax attacks) was going to be on the team correct?
Clinton did sexual harrassment and rape in private. I cared.
For all I know this guy is a close friend of Gary Condit and that's why he is on the team now that Condit is losing his position on the House Intelligence Committee.
eeehuuuu! stop the S&M repeat trip, man. That's disgusting privileging yourself like that.
Of course. After all, the first article of faith of the "Third Way, One World" types is "character doesn't count."
Their Übermensch Bill Clinton taught us that.
That said, perhaps this guy might be really useful in interrogations.
Recent graduates include
Black Rose is a non-profit organization which provides a forum for the many different expressions of power in love and play. This can include dominance & submission, bondage & discipline, fetishism, cross-dressing, to name a few.
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