Posted on 07/09/2003 4:04:00 PM PDT by Doug Thompson
March 31, 2003) — A former Clinton administration official will share a $1.4 million settlement from a New York nonprofit Internet access company accused of misusing federal grant money from the National Science Foundation.
David Lytel, who served as an adviser to the Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Clinton administration, filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit against NYSERNet in 2000.
Lytel was NYSERNet’s president between April and August of 1998 but was fired when he questioned the handling of a federal grant, said his attorney, Washington, D.C.-based lawyer Bonny Harbinger.
Seems very strange to me.
This has Clintonian scandal written all over it. $1.4 million as a whistleblower? He served FOUR MONTHS in a management position at that company. Direct from the White House to a firm that was misappropriating Federal Grants. Which he then exposed. SURRRRRE!
Lytel got his start in Ithaca, NY. Gadfly TLBSHOW lived in Oneonta, NY. Mere coincidence? LOL!
Any Freepers who say there is no difference between the Clinton and Bush Administrations needs to be ZOTTED from this forum immediately, no matter how long they've been here bitching, whining and not contributing one penny to fund raising campaigns.
I think the Clinton crowd spent every waking second thinking of ways to skim money from the government, donors, foreign lobbyists, and any crook they could find.
I wish I could remember about Lytel's wife. I think she had some connection to something important as well, but my memory is failing me.
Was it a ploy to panic readers of his site so that they would kick in money? Or was it sold but Thompson mistakenly put the new owner's name on the net and so they made him come up with a statement that it wasn't sold after all?
Something fishy about that deal, in my opinion.
That is high praise, and I am honored, especially in light of its source, but I must confess that there are many times I wish I didn't get it.
Facing the reality of our times is something for which I only occasionally have the courage, and I constantly finding myself hoping that my assessment of things is some how terribly wrong. A strange motivation that, but in the stormy times in which we live, any shelter offers more comfort than none at all.
Perhaps this desire or need for shelter from the fury of naked reality underlies the fundamental problems which confront humanity now, but that is a trait we are unlikely to change.
Having waxed poetic on the topic, however, nonetheless leaves the most important question unanswered:
Just what the hell do we do now?
/sarcasm
Have I missed a post which identifies him? Considering the spate of questionable items in this fiasco, I really would like to know.
Thank you for your kind words. I interpret Thielmann's agenda as anything but personal. I believe it is political, and, perhaps more significantly, ideological. While his slams have a jocular nature reminiscent of classic James Carville material, it is the theme underlying his words that almost deafens me when I read his essays.
The people for whom he works have succeeded in doing what the Devil and Keyser Soze of The Usual Suspects fame managed to do: convince the world they do not exist. Even suggesting that they do will have you labeled as a tinfoiler and a paranoid schizo. And yet, as Galileo would put it, "Still, it moves!"
Thielmann is nothing more than a footsoldier in a long, global war. And he is not on the side of America. I feel like an idiot sounding like such an alarmist, but these times are far more dangerous than even those of the height of the Cold War, under whose apocalyptic threat I have lived most of my life.
Too many pieces are coming together, and the picture revealed by the puzzle taking shape isn't a pretty one. If you follow the tendrils up from operatives such as Thielmann, the beast you confront is one whom you would never wish to see in the light of day, or in your darkest dreams.
But I digress. Thielmann and his fellow travelers identify themselves with the words they use. You may know evil by the fruit it bears. Beware. Do not be fooled by their lies, for lies are their weapon of choice, and they are a powerful weapon, indeed.
And the only weapon that is effective against them is the light of truth. Wield the truth without hesitancy, lest we lose it forever.
Melodramatic words, perhaps, but I assure you, appropriate to the mortal, and immortal, threat we face. Again, I feel silly saying it like a character in a novel, but there it is.
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