No surprise there. Remember MEGA Oil company and the "Baku Boom"? Mega was Richard Secord's lil' Oil "enterprise" in Azerbaijan while he and his ex-CIA buds stirred stuff up, selling arms and providing war training to the locals.
So, is Perle and Co. just the newer generation of the now geriatric-age Iran-Contra bunch?
Perle was responsile for extorting the US govt to dole out $450,000 PER MONTH to his pal Chalabi (Iraqi expatriate) in the years leading up to the invasion. Can you say kickback?
While claiming to be a "Republican" and holding a Pentagon position, two-faced Perle advised the American satellite maker, Loral Space and Communications (Loral's Bernie Schwartz was Clinton's pal), as it faced government accusations that it improperly transferred rocket technology to China (under Clinton).
(gag) "Republican" Perle contacted the senior official at the State Department considering the Loral matter. Mr. Perle has said he contacted the official, an assistant secretary, Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr., to inquire about the status of license requests by Loral to deliver the satellites that had been made for China. (Odd that a Bush Republican was helping a Clinton Democrat---sounds like the Lieberman gambit, eh?)
In another case, Perle was retained by the tele-com company Global Crossing (another Clinton apparat---and the company that made Dem head Terry McAuliffe a multi-millionaire) to help the company overcome resistance by the Defense Department to its proposed sale to a joint venture of Hutchison Whampoa, controlled by the Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, and Singapore Technologies Telemedia, a phone company controlled by the government of Singapore.
In that case, Perle and his lawyers had prepared to file an affidavit in the Global Crossing bankruptcy proceeding that said he was uniquely qualified to advise the company on the matter because of his job as head of the Defense Policy Board. But after a reporter raised questions about whether he was using his job at the Pentagon policy board for the benefit of a client, Perle and his lawyers revised the affidavit.
The inspector general's report said that "on its face, the affidavit would appear to violate Dept of Defense ethics regulations that prohibit the use of official position for personal gain."
Course Perle HAD NO IDEA.
Duh.
ROTFL.......Perle's still in the game. Now he's flacking pukeneo stooge Eric Cantor for McC's VP. Can't keep count of all the repetitive Cantor threads. The pukeneo stooges are going crazy.
STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE T'was not so long ago when the pukeneos brought themeselves forth as "authentic conservatives" and infiltrated the Repub Party.
They annointed arch-Liberal, former Democrat Giuliani as their butt boy. When he flopped, they leashed up McC. The pukes threw away the facade and began kicking conservatives to the curb, and obsessively cleansing the Repub part of religion.
LET'S MAKE BOOK We need to start a pool to determine how long it will take Cantor to start kicking conservatives to the curb if McC is stupid enough to pick him for VP.