Quiet Global Crossing Board Member: Former Secretary of Defense

washington dispatch ^ | 2/14/02

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

How comforting that Communist China will be in charge of Britain's defense network. That should make Hillary very happy.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Double Man By William S. Cohen and Gary Hart. (Barnes & Nobel.com Synopsis ) "After the Secretary of State's family and several Secret Service men are . . . {murdered} by an unidentified group, the Senate Committee on Intelligence picks rising political star Senator Thomas Chandler to head the task force set up to investigate terrorism. They zero in on drug trafficking, organized crime, and anti-Castro Cubans. Unknown to Chandler's team, renegade KGB Colonel Metrinko is behind all the evil doings. He is being aided by a highly placed mole with access to top secret U.S. information." (Libr J)

The Double Man By William S. Cohen and Gary Hart. New York: William Morrow, 1985. 348 pages. Out of print.-- Republican William Cohen (of secretary of defense fame) and Democrat Gary Hart (of Monkey Business infamy) collaborated across the aisle on this novel of political intrigue, but set a poor precedent for artistic bipartisanship. The novel's moderate New England senator is a sympathetic but unfathomably dull hero -- the real fun lies in guessing who wrote what. Cohen, author of two uncelebrated volumes of poetry, was surely the creative force behind the "neuron exchanger" -- a secret weapon designed "to alter the brain patterns of [our] enemies so as to make them totally benign and nonthreatening." And it's almost too easy to attribute the following to poor Hart: "Her lips parted as they sought his.... At that moment, if the flames had leaped out to consume them, they might not have noticed. Or cared." Mother Jones.com review

[mewzilla]

And it makes me wonder if everyone over at the MOD is asleep at the switch. Sheesh.

[YaYa123]

http://www.defenselink.mil/photos/Dec1999/991117-D-2987S-202.html

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Not there anymore?

[YaYa123]

hmmmmm...just saw it I'll try again. (I don't do links) can you google.com " Cohen, Global Crossing "...that's how I found it, and more.

[Lion's Cub]

You've made my day with this post! I'm so thankful someone in the media is finally getting to the real story here- that the PRC almost got everything! Kudos to the Washington Dispatch!

[eeriegeno]

If Gore would have won the election in 2000 would we be talking about an Enron and Global Crossing collapse? I bet not. And that speaks volumes to the honesty of the Clinton administration. It wasn't the dotcom bubble that took this economy down in 2000, it was the knowledge that major companies would not be able to continue to cook the books because a new cop was coming to town.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

(I don't do links)

I't looks like it's configured correctly but when I set it up as a photo link, here is the photo.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It wasn't the dotcom bubble that took this economy down in 2000, it was the knowledge that major companies would not be able to continue to cook the books because a new cop was coming to town.

Bump!

[Miss Marple]

Here is an interesting old AP article:

Top Pentagon Official resigns

WASHINGTON (October 25, 2000 12:49 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - The Pentagon's top intelligence expert on terrorist threats in the Persian Gulf region resigned in protest the day after the USS Cole was attacked in Yemen, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday.

Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said the official quit because of what he believed was an unjustified lack of attention by his Pentagon superiors to terrorist threat warnings he had provided before the Oct. 12 attack on the warship.

[metesky]

Yes, MM. And IIRC he was in China a couple of weeks before one of BillyJeff's trips, under what almost amounted to a press blackout.

The bum is the former mayor of Bangor, my town. They love him here. (slowly shaking head)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The two senior retired U.S. military officers chosen to head a Pentagon investigation of the security practices of the Cole - Adm. Harold Gehman Jr. and Army Gen. William Crouch - are making plans to travel to Aden. Quigley said they met Monday at the Pentagon with Defense Secretary William Cohen, who told them their main goal is to improve the military's ability to protect itself against terrorist attack.

All mouth after the fact. Cohen wasn't paying attention to national security, he was only paying attention to international relations as the tied into his golden parachute.

[Free the USA]

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thursday February 14, 8:23 pm Eastern Time Asia Global Crossing delays earnings release-[Full Text] LOS ANGELES, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Asia Global Crossing (NYSE:AX - news) on Friday announced that it had delayed the release of its fourth-quarter earnings by one week and canceled a related analyst conference call.

The company, which is owned by now-bankrupt Global Crossing Ltd and counts Japan's Softbank and Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) as major shareholders, said its earnings release originally scheduled for Feb. 19 had been postponed until Feb. 26.

The company, in its statement from Hong Kong which was released in the United States, did not give a reason for the delay of its statement.

Global Crossing is the target of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into its accounting practice and is also the target of class action suits by investors. The FBI has also said it is investigating the company, which filed for bankruptcy protection in January.

Thu Feb 14, 7:04 PM ET Global Crossing Attracts Congress Amid Enron Probe - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accounting practices at bankrupt telecommunications company Global Crossing are drawing attention from congressional investigators even as probes of Enron Corp.'s collapse continue, lawmakers' aides said on Thursday. "We have begun the early stages of gathering the facts on the Global Crossing bankruptcy," said Ken Johnson, spokesman for House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin, a Louisiana Republican.

[ELS]

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[cibco]

Bump!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

"The FBI has also said it is investigating the company, which filed for bankruptcy protection in January. "

One can only hope that the Bush administration has put some of ITS appointees on this case instead of trusting Clintonites for this investigation.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

"And it makes me wonder if everyone over at the MOD is asleep at the switch. Sheesh."

Yes it does - but, then, perhaps, the British socialist/Marxists see no problem with thier defense network being run by the Communist Chinese. You know - they are not our enemy and all that garbage. It's all just one big happy globalsocialist neighborhood.

We must never underestimate the fact that the globalsocialists are in crucial spots whispering this "China is our friend - not to worry" fantasy into the ears of willing hearers.

But what do we know? We are nothings.

[cynicom]

Good ole boy Cohen picked off one of those "no show" jobs. Course we all know that politicians are highly ethical and at no time was there then or now any "conflict" of interest. I love that cloak of honor that politicians bestow upon themselves, that self righteousness, that holier than thou mantle.