Posted on 03/28/2006 7:50:08 AM PST by americaprd
Several members of President Bill Clinton’s national security team are hosting a Washington fund-raiser tonight for retired Vice Adm. Joseph Sestak Jr., the Democrat running against U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon in November.
Officials at Sestak’s campaign headquarters in Media will not comment on the event, though an invitation sent out to potential donors and obtained by the Daily Times lists Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger as a host.
"As a general rule, campaigns don’t comment on fund-raisers or people who hold them," said Sestak’s campaign chairman, Myles Duffy.
Berger, who served as Clinton’s second-term national security adviser, pleaded guilty last year to removing classified material from the National Archives. He originally claimed it was an "honest mistake," but later admitted that he took the terrorism documents by hiding them in his jacket, then cut some of them up with scissors.
"I don’t know why this fund-raiser is so secretive -- other than the fact that it is a fund-raiser hosted by a convicted felon, a man convicted of destroying information dealing with pre-9/11 intelligence," said Russ Caso, Weldon’s chief of staff.
Berger’s crime was a misdemeanor that carried a $50,000 fine, 100 hours of community service and two years of probation. He also was stripped of his security clearance for three years.
"What do they have to hide about this?" Caso asked. "I know what they have to hide: it’s an embarrassment."
Sestak’s campaign issued a press release earlier this month, stating that the Democrat had raised more than $150,000 since announcing his candidacy Feb. 2.
About $50,000 of that was raised with the help of Sen. John Kerry, Sestak said at the time.
Sestak’s communication director, Bryan Bennett, said all campaign contributions would be filed quarterly with the Federal Election Commission, as required by law, but he declined to discuss individual fund-raisers.
Tonight’s event begins at 6 p.m. and will be held at the Connecticut Ave. law office of Harold Ickes and Janice Enright, according to the invitation. Ickes, a labor attorney and former top aide to President Clinton, was a strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign. Enright, a lobbyist who works with Ickes, is the treasurer of Sen. Clinton’s 2006 re-election committee.
The invitation asks for individual contributions ranging from $250 to $2,100. Sestak is not distancing himself from Berger or the other Clinton administration officials hosting the fund-raiser, including Anthony Lake, Richard Clarke, John Dalton and Rand Beers.
"This event is hosted by a group of people I used to work with, people that I was and am friends with, and I am proud to count them among my friends," Sestak said through Bennett.
Realizing that Weldon could be facing a tougher-than-normal race, his campaign is attempting to portray Sestak as a carpetbagger who is not in tune with the district. The 8th District Democratic primary in Bucks County is headed in a similar direction.
"Sandy Berger - Clinton guy. Harold Ickes - Clinton guy. Joe Sestak - Clinton guy. This is the national liberal Democrats with an agenda coming into the 7th District," said Michael Puppio Jr., a Delaware County councilman who is running Weldon’s local re-election campaign.
Sestak, 54, a former deputy chief of Naval operations who served as director for defense policy on Clinton’s National Security Council, has deep roots in Springfield, but has been living outside the district for more than three decades while serving in the Navy. He now lives in Nether Providence but also plans to keep his home in Alexandria, Va.
"He’s a local boy," Bennett said of Sestak, a Cardinal O’Hara High School graduate. "It’s not some international conspiracy to unseat Curt Weldon."
U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a Vietnam War veteran, will visit the district Saturday to host a Weldon fund-raiser, Caso said.
"Congressman Weldon believes in the full-disclosure process, complete transparency," Caso said of Weldon’s fund-raising activities.
Is Weldon in any trouble?
I thought you might be interested in this.
Yes. His district has gone for Democrat Presidential candidates the past several elections. Local voters are also big supporters of Governor Rendell, who is up for reelection this year.
He needs all the help he can get.
I think the FR should help Weldon as much as possible.
"Sestak, 54, a former deputy chief of Naval operations who served as director for defense policy on Clinton’s National Security Council, has deep roots in Springfield, but has been living outside the district for more than three decades while serving in the Navy. He now lives in Nether Providence but also plans to keep his home in Alexandria, Va."
Another Admiral Crowe turncoat..The military suffered through low pay, recruiting shortfalls, and readiness problems during Clinton's and this guys tenure on the CNO staff. How any career military man can throw in with the Dems is beyond me!
If this is not the perfect testimony to how filthy and crooked the political class in Washington is, then nothing will be. Where is the patriotic support for Weldon from members of Congress who CARE ABOUT AMERICA?? Oops, I don't see any...
ping
no - hes very well respected in the district and even though his district has gone for democratic presidents the past few terms, weldon easily won his reelection. hes in no danger.
2000 - Weldon 65 % - 35 %
2002 - Weldon 66 % - 34 %
2004 - Weldon 59 % - 40 %
ping
I strongly disagree. All of those races were against no name Democrats without any funding. He is going to have a very difficult race against someone with money to spend.
They don't? Well isn't that just fudgin' stupid!
Folks
When you stop and think about it, isn't this sort of a gift from God?
All he needs to do is make a commercial telling about the Admiral's supporters, especially Sandy Burglar, and what he got in trouble for. And then ask him in public forum if he supported what the burglar did.
Bergular should be serving time right now, not raising money to defeat Weldon. We have Bush's Justice Department to thank for that.
Someone sure wants Weldon out of office
kind of makes a person go hmmmmmmmmmm
Here's the list of Clintonites who hosted the fundraiser:
SANDY BERGER
TONY LAKE
DICK CLARKE
JOHN DALTON
RAND BEERS
SUSAN RICE
BOB BELL
BILL DANVERS
ANNE RICHARD
ANNE WITKOWSKY
STEVE ANDREASEN
Sandy "Pantload" Berger?
Time for Weldon to crank up the hearings on Able Danger to have a report out by October.
"If you shake hands with Sandy Berger, you had better count your fingers afterward".
I keep thinking it's Fields but I can't picture him saying it. Somebody help me out here.
Ping! I don't know about everyone on that list, but these 4 are a pant-load of Clintonista NSC weasels for sure:
SANDY BERGER
TONY LAKE
DICK CLARKE
RAND BEERS
4 guys who have been screwing up so huge on our national security for years, and now they are starting their counter-attack against Weldon to try to end the exposure of their sins.
Where are Joe Wilson and Valerie Pflame? If they're not open sponsors of this I'd bet they're sure to be lurking in the background. Wilson was recruited to the Kerry campaign before he became an embarrassment, so he probably knows at least Rand Beers quite well - and once he had become a celebrity for the hate-Bush crowd he probably became big buddies with Sandy Burglar, Richard Clarke, & co. (if he wasn't already). Remember that Wilson also served for a stint on the Clintonista NSC.....
Let's not forget the charlatan Richard Clarke, who will soon be back in the news now that they are making a movie based upon his novel, er memoir..... "Against All Enemies"....... and don't forget that Rand Beers, best friend of Clarke, was the scumbag who left the NSC staff in time of war to run the national security team for the Kerry campaign.... the team which lined up lyin' Joe Wilson for a personal "politics of truth" (sic) website hosted by the Kerry campaign, until they had to take it down in a rush when Wilson's lies began to emerge.
We need to search out all linkages among these clowns - this is real self-appointed "shadow government" trying to "take back" control of national security matters (and cover up their own malfeasance). Why are the Clintonistas so anxious to try to knock off Rep. Weldon?? Couldn't be that the full exposure of ABLE DANGER would also expose their mendacious incompetence???
Did I see Harold Ickes' name in there?
He is E V I L.
And he is D A N G E R O U S.
And he "belongs" to HER.
out of my head?
It would be foolish to think these people would just slide under the pavement and never be heard of again. One can conjure up images of the Disney animated film, The Wind in the Willows, where the house full of weasels lived. Need I say more.
On October 24, 1995, President Clinton had a meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in New York City. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Winston Lord (former deputy national security advisor under Henry Kissinger), National Security Advisor Anthony Lake (former State Department official under Henry Kissinger), Secretary Christopher and Robert Suettinger, Director of Asian Affairs for the National Security Council (NSC), joined them at the meeting. No one brought up China's theft of America's weapons designs during the discussion because, at this point, all five claim they had not yet been told.
SNIP
November [1995]
CIA Director Deutch allegedly briefed NSC Director Anthony Lake about China's theft of America's nuclear weapon designs sometime in November 1995. The president, allegedly, still had not yet been informed. Lake later claimed he did not recall the briefing, but he and White House officials said there was a record of it.
Also in November, Attorney General Janet Reno, Defense Secretary Perry and FBI Director Louis Freeh allegedly learned of China's theft of all of America's nuclear weapons designs for the first time. Allegedly, no one informed the president.
SNIP
July [1996]
On July 3, President Clinton signed another waiver allowing an American satellite to be launched in China. He would sign another six days later.
On July 6, 1996, NSC Director Anthony Lake went to China.
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Also on December 5 [1996], NSC Director Anthony Lake was named as acting CIA director to replace outgoing Director Deutch. During a routine check of outgoing CIA personnel, agents discovered Deutch brought 14,000 top secret government documents home and left them on an unsecured computer hooked up to the Internet. An investigation was immediately begun. Deputy CIA Director George Tenet failed to inform the FBI or Justice Department of his investigation for over a year. President Clinton pardoned Deutch on his last day in office.
Also on December 5, CNN reported Commerce official Melinda Yee threw away documents concerning the department's trade missions after a judge ordered they be turned over to Larry Klayman's Judicial Watch group.
On December 8, 1996, Gen. Chi attended a dinner at the National Defense University in Maryland. The dinner was hosted by Defense Secretary Perry and attended by Alexander Haig, Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Defense Secretary White, Joseph Nye, Sen. John Glenn (Democrat-Ohio), among others.
On December 9, Gen. Chi and Secretary Perry met with President Clinton at the White House. Allegedly, China's theft of America's nuclear weapons designs was never discussed. The president, allegedly, had still not yet been informed.
Chi and Perry then returned to the Pentagon and had a meeting with Ambassador James Sasser. Before leaving the US in mid-December, Gen. Chi was given a tour of Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico by Defense Secretary Perry. Lab security officials were given little advanced notice of the visit and Chi was not given a normal background check.
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On March 13 [1997], Attorney General Janet Reno claimed she tried to inform Anthony Lake at the NSC about the FBI's information concerning China's attempt to influence America's elections back in June 1996, but did not because she "could not find him". She also said she did not tell President Clinton herself because she felt it was the job of the NSC. Sandy Berger replaced Lake as head of NSC the following day.
FBI Director Freeh told Congress his investigation into campaign finance irregularities was not focusing on individual criminal acts, but on a possible conspiracy involving a foreign government.
So we may well wonder if Berger's (and others') interest in opposing Weldon relates to Chinagate as well.
Wow, thanks, lots of good info from you as always! Yes, there is a strong Rice-Wilson-Berger nexus due to the Africa issues with the NSC. I'd still like to know how much Joe Wilson's scam consultancy business rakes in and how much of its funds derives from 'contacts' he made in the Clinton-in-Africa boondoggle.
All the Chinagate issues are huge, of course, but I'm just so discouraged that no one in the MSM will ever practice some real investigative journalism to turn over these rocks and reveal all the worms underneath.....
There were very strong indications that ABLE DANGER had unearthed all sorts of possible Chinagate connections. The grotesque tactic used to discredit the entire program (as least from what has been reported by the spineless MSM) is that the fact that Condi Rice and a couple of other names from Stanford came up in the data mining (naturally, since there were Chinagate connections there, and William Perry is a big Stanford dude to this day). The fact that any 'domestic' names came up was used to discredit and disband all of AD, supposedly under some ludicrous interpretation of the law loosely analogous to the people who are saying the NSA surveillance of overseas terrorists must be attacked if it involved any contacts to/from 'domestic' persons in the USA.
Fedora, thanks--I'm trying to get this out..
ping
I realized after posting that I should've noted Beers and Clarke's NSC association in that context as well (as you mention in Post 29). Wilson was also friends with Beers while Beers was still in the Bush administration during the run-up to the Iraq War.
Meant to ping you on #40 as well.
Yes, they were--Clarke and Beers were holdovers on the NSC when Bush won.(Wilson had also been on the NSC during CLinton's term) Clarke and Beers They left them on only to have them make well-publicized defections to Kerry.
And their sleezy bag man Sandy Ham-Burglar...is being used to help with their fund raising. H'mmm. That should go over real well...
Seems to me that any debates with the good Admiral should BEGIN and END with his relationship to the security-hazard Mr. Hamburglar. And while at it, ask how he feels about Hillary opposing the release of the ABLE DANGER information that warned us of 9-11.
[Background note on Gorelick and John Deutch, mentioned previously in the thread: "John Deutch was an undesecretary in President Carter's Energy Department and a member of the Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee from 1979-1980. During his time there, Jamie Gorelick acted as his legal counsel.": Conspiracy To Commit Treason]
Recall, too, that during the time of Ms. Gorelick's 1995 memo, the issue causing the most tension between the Reno-Gorelick Justice Department and Director Freeh's FBI was not counterterrorism but widely reported allegations of contributions to the Clinton-Gore campaign from foreign sources, involving the likes of John Huang and Charlie Trie. -- The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 15, 2004
Boortz notices the 9-11/Chinagate/Gorelick "Rosetta Stone"
You know that Jamie Gorelick is a member of the 9/11 Commission. You also probably know that she was an Assistant Attorney General in the Clinton Administration And .. you might know that she is the Clinton official who wrote that memo that pretty much eliminated any possibility that the CIA and the FBI would cooperate and share intelligence on terrorism. But .. do you know why Gorelick wrote this memo? Simple. To protect Clinton from an investigation into Chinese involvement in his campaign finance scandal.
Did Gorelick's infamous memo provide the missing link between Chinagate and 9/11?
"Quick - google Dietrich Snell. Explains a lot about AttaGate.", Post 192
This is absolutely ridiculous. The 9/11 Commission was a friggin joke... and a cover up operation. All this and the Berger thing? It's all connected.
If my guess- made in the post above- is correct or just close, then it might explain a lot about Berger. Berger was involved in Chinagate, and China of course was in on the Qadeer Khan proliferation ring.
*** Was not Sandy Berger a paid lobbyist for China? 81 posted on 07/19/2004 5:31:10 PM PDT by rhombus*** Sandy Berger Worked for the Chinese Government 314 posted on 07/19/2004 6:16:07 PM PDT by hope
Berger's had problems handling classified info before:
“This is the second time now that we have a documented case of Berger mishandling classified information,” said Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), recalling a 1999 incident that led him to take to the floor of the House to criticize “the outrageous and curious behavior of our so-called national security adviser.”As a member of the Cox Committee charged with investigating the transfer of high-tech secrets to China during the Clinton administration, in January 1999 Rep. Weldon sent an advance copy of the committee’s report to Mr. Berger for his review. After seven months of closed-door, bipartisan hearings with no leaks to the press, the committee of five Republicans and four Democrats had unanimously recommended some three dozen steps that should be taken to protect America’s national security.
Within days, however, “Sandy Berger issued a statement to selected members of the media putting the White House spin on what was still a classified document,” congressman Weldon recalled. “He did that without asking any member of the committee. Before the CIA director could even read our report, Berger was already spinning. That sets the pattern for what may have occurred” in the Archives case, Rep. Weldon believes.
Though he planned to remain silent on the current controversy until more facts came to light, a reminder of Mr. Berger’s record was enough to change Rep. Weldon’s mind. “I remember this vividly now,” he told WORLD in his first interview on the subject. “I went through it in a detailed way on the floor of the House. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that Berger pre-released classified information to benefit the White House.” ----- "Berger’s secret," by Bob Jones, World Magazine, 7/26/04
Berger's a Kerry campaign staffer who was hoping to land a positionin his White House should Kerry have been elected- and Kerry, too, has ties with China:
May 2004 - Is Chinagate old news? Water under the bridge? Something for the 9/11 Commission's Democrat partisans to pooh-pooh and ignore as they recklessly paint their anti-Bush pastiche?Not if you continue to mourn the thousands dead on that grim September morning. And not if you consider what other reflexively anti-Defense politician currently angling for the Presidency has financial ties to some of the same scandalous campaign donors as Bill Clinton: John Kerry is today's victorious campaign-donation choice of Chinagate's Huang-linked George Chao-Chi Chu, described as having "unusual access to high-ranking Communist officials in China" [6].
And that is old news, in a way: for in 1996 John Kerry received cash from Johnny Chung and Liu Chaoying, daughter of a powerful Chinese military official, for providing high-level access to Federal securities regulators. Kerry's cash came from transfers sent to Chung on orders from the chief of Chinese military intelligence [7]. --- "Did Gorelick's infamous memo provide the missing link between Chinagate and 9/11?," http://www.newaus.com.au/040305gorelick.html
Berger was involved in the Los Alamos spy case.
Remember, Able Danger's findings weren't the only things hidden from the administration- the NSC's March 2000 post millenium plan, the Millenium After-Action Review, detailing the extensive network of al Qaeda and foreign terrorists within the US and making recommendations on dealing with them, was not among the thirty other items Janet Reno briefed John Ashcroft on when the new administration took over during the abbreviated transition period.
Who ordered Richard Clark to write the NSC Post-Millenium plan that the Clinton administration never bothered to implement?
Sandy Berger.
2003 : (CLINTON ASKS BERGER TO REVIEW AND SELECT ADMNISTRATION DOCUMENTS THAT WOULD BE TURNED OVER TO THE 9/11 COMMISSION) Clinton asked Berger last year to review and select the administration documents that would be turned over to the [9/11] commission. --- "AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos [Sandy Berger, is the focus of a criminal investigation," John Solomon, AP via Yahoo, July 20, 2004Remember, these documents were NSC documents.SEPTEMBER? 2003 : (SANDY BERGER REVIEWS COPY OF POST-MILLENNIUM REPORT IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES- IT WOULD DISAPPEAR, EVIDENTLY INTO HIS PANTS OR SOCKS) --- "AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos [Sandy Berger, is the focus of a criminal investigation," John Solomon, AP via Yahoo, July 20, 2004
JANUARY 2004 : (BERGER'S HOME SAFE & OFFICE SEARCHED BY FBI AGENTS WITH WARRANTS; THEY FIND CLASSIFIED NOTE CARDS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE TALKS IN HIS BUSINESS OFFICE, BUT FAIL TO FIND THE OTHER MISSING DOCUMENTS) The FBI searched Berger's home and office with warrants earlier this year after employees of the National Archives told agents they believed they witnessed Berger put documents into his clothing while reviewing sensitive Clinton administration papers, officials said.... In the FBI search of his office, Berger also was found in possession of a small number of classified note cards containing his handwritten notes from the Middle East peace talks during the 1990s, but those are not a focus of the current criminal probe, officials and lawyers said. ... in January the FBI executed search warrants of a safe at Berger's home as well as his business office where he found some of the documents. Agents also failed to locate the missing documents. ... --- "AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos [Sandy Berger, is the focus of a criminal investigation," John Solomon, AP via Yahoo, July 20, 2004
FEBRUARY 27, 2004 : (UCLA, CA : JOHN KERRY SPEECH CONCERNING AIRPORT AND PORT SECURITY - SPEECH WOULD BE REMOVED FROM HIS WEBSITE WHEN SANDY BERGER NATIONAL ARCHIVES DOCUMENT THEFT NEWS BREAKS - COULD IT CONTAIN TELL-TALE PHRASES LIFTED FROM STOLEN DOCS?)JULY 13, 2004 : (PRESS REPORT REFERS TO SANDY BERGER AS A CHIEF FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR TO JOHN KERRY)...In a wide-ranging and exclusive interview with Bisnow on Business, former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, now a chief foreign policy adviser to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry,... ----- Bisnow interview reported in The Hill
JULY 21, 2004 10:50AM : (KERRY'S SUDDENLY DISAPPEARING WEB DOCUMENTS [07/21 10:50 PM] ) Various Kerry Spot readers are calling attention to the fact that the Kerry web site appears to have removed the press release that used to be here:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0227a.html
But can still be seen in the Google cache here, and has been posted on the FreeRepublic.com discussion board here:
The date of the event is February 27, 2004. The event was a speech at UCLA about homeland security, mentioning port security and airline security.
Now, Kerry wouldn't need any secret documents from March 2000 to make a speech saying port and airline security should be improved in February 2004. So it's hard to buy the most sinister theories running around, that Kerry was using the classified documents to put together his homeland security policy proposals.
Unless, perhaps, the 2000 memo mentioned something about airport perimeter security and airliner's vulnerability to shoulder-fired missiles, and somehow that inspired Kerry release's plan to "increase perimeter inspections of U.S. airports and work with international aviation authorities to make sure the same standards are in place at all international airports. He will work with our allies to crackdown on the sale of shoulder-fired missiles that could be used in an attack on civilian aircraft, and are sold on the black market." But would Kerry really need a secret memo to think of that threat?
Either way, it is odd that this event appears to have been deleted from Kerry's web site.
UPDATE: Another reader wonders if the language in Kerry's speech in New Hampshire on December 17 or at UCLA is from the security memo. Well, if that could be proven, it would be pretty damning. --- "KERRY'S SUDDENLY DISAPPEARING WEB DOCUMENTS [07/21 10:50 PM]" NRO.com, http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerryspot.asp via GrampaDave & Smonk on FRJULY 20, 2004 : (REPORT : BERGER & MISSING DOCS ON VULNERABILITIES AT US ARIPORTS & SEAPORTS) Government and congressional officials familiar with the investigation, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the probe involves classified materials, said the investigation remains active and no decision has been made on whether Berger should face criminal charges. The officials said the missing documents were highly classified, and included critical assessments about the Clinton administration's handling of the millennium terror threats as well as identification of America's terror vulnerabilities at airports to sea ports. --- "AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos [Sandy Berger, is the focus of a criminal investigation," John Solomon, AP via Yahoo, July 20, 2004
1998 : (CLINTON AFRICA TRIP INCLUDES SANDY BERGER & JOSEPH WILSON, NSC DIRECTOR FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS) Samuel Berger, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs ... Joe Wilson Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for African Affairs --- "Official Delegation Accompanying the President to Africa March 20, 1998," NARA.gov (They both accompanied Clinton on his 1998 Africa trip)Don't be suprised to find out the Qadeer Khan nuclear proliferation network had dealings with Niger.
Well, we all know about Joseph Wilson an Niger... and there's the report the CIA never followed up on from the navy, where a source in the country of Benin, from which Niger's uranium is shipped, told the Navy that Iraq had a uranium shipment stored in a warehouse there. That contact said the CIA never called or met with him on what he knew. I presume the report was ignored because it didn't fit in with the conventional wisdom that Iraq didn't need to buy uranium since it had so much stored up under IAEA seal. Nevermind that that uranium was being monitored by inspectors while smuggled uranium would not be.
"BREAKING!!! - Weldon says records were ordered destroyed!! (Able Danger)", Post 796
It implies that Clinton was very concerned about something, probably something to do with "Chinagate" and campaign funds from illegal foreign sources. Remember, the reason that Clinton had Gorelick and Scruggs erect "the wall" in the first place was to stymie investigations into his own illegal dealings. The byproduct of Clinton's self-preservation tactics was that the left hand knew about lead hijacker Atta but the right hand did not - - because the left hand was prohibited (by "the wall") from telling the right hand.
TOP US OFFICIAL LIED ABOUT AL QAIDA-FARC LINK
US Assistant Secretary of State Rand Beers has admitted that he did not speak the truth when he last November declared under oath that Colombian guerrillas had received training in terrorist camps in Afghanistan ...
Top State Department official Rand Beers, who heads the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, has rescinded a statement made under oath before a federal court that claimed that guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) had trained at Al Qaida camps in Afghanistan.
Beers committed perjury in an attempt to support a motion to dismiss a civil suit against US mercenary company DynCorp, the largest State Department contractor. DynCorp's mercenaries performs a host of military and support functions for the US and Colombian forces who are fighting left-wing insurgents in Colombia's civil war. ------ "TOP US OFFICIAL LIED ABOUT AL QAIDA-FARC LINK," By Maria Engqvist, ANNCOL Stockholm, 12.09.2002 http://www.anncol.com/september_eng/1209_TOP_US_OFFICIAL_LIED_ABOUT_AL_QAIDA.htm
I thought that was a neat post --and then I noticed I had made it years ago. LOL
Thanks, piasa! Looks like Rice and Beers are in this even deeper than I realized.
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