Posted on 03/28/2003 11:50:59 PM PST by maui_hawaii
WASHINGTON, March 28 — While he led an influential Pentagon advisory board, Richard N. Perle advised a major American satellite maker, Loral Space and Communications, as it faced government accusations that it improperly transferred rocket technology to China, administration officials said today.
Officials at the State Department said that the senior official considering how to resolve the rocket matter, Assistant Secretary Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr., was contacted by Mr. Perle once or twice in the second half of 2001 on behalf of the company. At the time, Mr. Bloomfield, who heads the State Department's bureau of political-military affairs, and other officials were investigating accusations that Loral turned over expertise that significantly improved the reliability of China's nuclear missiles.
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I hope the NY Times can get a quote from DNC Chairman Terry "Global Crossing" McAuliffe regarding Perles horrible behaviour.
Is this directed at me or the author?
Is this directed at me or the author?
It is directed at Howell Raines and the NYT cabal who orchestrated Perle's rough passing. Their work was in vain. Perle was but one of many hawks on the DAC.
Mr. Perle said this afternoon that he was retained by Loral seven months before his appointment by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to head the Defense Policy Board and was given a one-time retainer at the outset of his work.
"I was retained by Loral in January 2001 to assist the company in assessing its dispute with the government concerning transfers of technology to the Chinese, to recommend approaches to settling that dispute including new security arrangements to assure against any further technology leakage," he said. "At no time did I urge any government official to settle the case."
He said any conversations he may have had with Mr. Bloomfield or his staff "related to the licensing" of other Loral satellites for the Chinese and that he was "not compensated by the company in connection with that activity."
Mr. Perle declined to say how much he was paid by Loral. He said he did not file a lobbying disclosure statement because he did no lobbying on behalf of Loral.
This looks very bad.
Lets see... he took a cash payment 'retainer'...then 6 months later was appointed as head of this division, to which he 'made some calls' about the case...AND he did not report the payment to anyone.
Conservative or not, he is not immune to money and most definately the appearance of wrong doing.
. Global Crossing, the telecommunications giant, is now in bankruptcy. It has retained Perle to help persuade the Defense Department to drop its objections to a proposed sale to foreign buyers in Hong Kong and Singapore. The deal has been opposed by the Defense Department and the FBI as a threat to national security because it would put Global Crossing's fiber optics network, which is used by the U.S. government, under foreign control. Perle stands to make up to $725,000 from his work for Global Crossing.
. Perle insists that there is no conflict in his case because the Defense Policy Board is not involved in approving the Global Crossing deal. But that is not the right test. Global Crossing's fee is clearly payment, at least in part, for the influence Perle exerts through his Defense Department post, and federal ethics rules prohibit using public office for private gain. To remove the conflict, Perle will have to choose between the gain and the office.
As chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle has been an influential architect of the Bush administration's Iraq policy and war plans. At the same time, it turns out, he has signed on to represent a major telecommunications company that has a strong financial interest in lobbying the Defense Department. This is a conflict pure and simple, and Perle should immediately drop one of his two roles.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/8/9/190931
Hutchison Whampoa Snags Global Crossing
Hutchison Whampoa, the mammoth company that runs the Panama Canal and has close ties to the Chinese army, has a new rhinestone in its crown: Global Crossing.
Along with another Asian company, Singapore Technologies, it paid $250 million today for the bankrupt fiber-optic network company - a third of the original offer
I feel a little uncomfortable having a lobbyist for Communist China playing a role in the DOD Total Information Awareness Program, since the logo of the office is, "Knowledge is Power."
WASHINGTON (May 22) -- President Bill Clinton on Friday defended a controversial satellite deal with China, even as White House officials delivered documents to the House International Relations Committee about the arrangement
Congressional critics, both Democrats and Republicans, say the Chinese may have had access to sophisticated U.S. satellite and missile technology during an investigation into a failed launch attempt on a Chinese rocket in 1996. And Republicans have accused Clinton of jeopardizing national security by granting the waiver to please a high-dollar Democratic donor.
Afterward Loral admits it gave the Chinese a written report about the cause of the rocket failure, without official clearance. A Pentagon office concluded in a still-secret report that "United States national security has been harmed," according to government officials. And Loral confirms it is now under investigation by a federal grand jury as a result.
Loral's chairman Bernard Schwartz denies Loral did anything illegal.
There appears to be a pattern developing with Mr. Perle and Communist China
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