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Excuse me, Powerclown... (This seems important enough to break my promise to myself not to enage you...after you did not afford me the courtesy of a response on this thread: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...la#post1942213 to my post in a discussion that you initiated...)
I am wondering what opinion that you have advanced on these threads, concerning the "war on terror", has turned out to be the accurate "take" about how events would "play out"? Was it your "take" on WMD in Iraq, or "Good things happening in Iraq" ? Please stop taunting me, when you have no answers, and no outrage about these reports.
(The POTUS and the congressional leaders, in a "time of war", that you ardently and obviously, totally believe to be as they SAY it is... have been reported to be involved with the two bribers of Randy Cunningham... and they refuse to talk about. Signsonsandiego "broke" the Cunningham corruption story, it's own reporter did the investigative work to expose the corruption (treason ?????) that the congress and government investigatory agencies ignored !)
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...062701856.html
Pentagon Ends New Work On D.C. Firm's Contract
MZM to Name New CEO as Relationship With Congressman Is Under Investigation
..Government procurement records show that MZM, which Wade started in 1993, did not report any revenue from prime contract awards until 2003. Most of its revenue has come from the agreement the Pentagon just cut off. But over the past three years it was also awarded several contracts, worth more than $600,000, by the Executive Office of the President. They include a $140,000 deal for office furniture in 2002 and several for unspecified "intelligence services."
A White House spokeswoman declined to comment....
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/p...9-1n5duke.html
Cunningham among those who flew on tiny S.D. air carrier
By Dean Calbreath
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
August 5, 2005
San Diego's Group W Transportation is a private air carrier so small that until recently its entire fleet consisted of a one-16th ownership stake in a Lear jet.
Yet Group W, owned by Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes, has provided personal air transportation for some high-profile passengers – including House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who has flown on the jet to such locations as Idaho for a hunting trip and Hawaii for a golf tournament. .......
......Members of Congress cannot take free trips for campaign activities. Campaign laws require candidates to pay the equivalent of first-class commercial air fare when flying aboard corporate jets. However, since private jet travel is far more expensive than commercial air fare, politicians who comply with the law are getting an expensive gift from the company that owns the jet......
.......Feingold introduced a bill in the Senate last month that would require lawmakers to pay charter fares for such flights, rather than first-class fares.
"It's time to end the charade that says that the fair market value of a flight on a Lear jet is the same as the cost of a first-class plane ticket," Feingold said. "If that fiction is eliminated, the use of corporate jets as a lobbying tool will be history." .........
.......The investigations were launched after articles in the Union-Tribune raised questions about Cunningham's sale of his Del Mar-area home to Wade, who later sold it for a $700,000 loss.
Cunningham also lived aboard Wade's yacht, called the Duke-Stir, while in Washington.
MZM has received $163 million in federal contracts since 2002. Cunningham has said that as a member of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, he supported funding requests benefiting MZM.
Since launching ADCS in the late 1990s, Wilkes has built relationships with key legislators on Capitol Hill. He and his close family members and business associates have donated more than $600,000 to congressional campaigns, mostly targeted at members of the Senate and House appropriations and armed services committees, which oversee the Pentagon budget.
In addition, Wilkes has spent $440,000 on lobbying activities, according to the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that monitors government ethics issues. He also has repeatedly provided the use of his corporate jet to Cunningham and DeLay..........
......Fossel said each owner of the plane was entitled to 50 hours per year of flight time, although Group W upgraded its ownership this spring to one-eighth of a jet, guaranteeing 100 hours per year. Filings with the FEC show that in 2001 and 2003, Group W used much of its flight time to transport politicians.
During one weekend campaign swing in July 2003, DeLay used at least a quarter of Group W's 50-hour annual allotment on the jet.
DeLay flew the Group W jet from Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., to John Wayne Airport in Orange County to appear at a campaign dinner for Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach.
When the dinner was over, DeLay flew from Orange County to Seattle, where he appeared at a campaign event for then-Rep. Jennifer Dunn. Once that event ended, DeLay used the Group W jet to fly back to Washington, D.C.
The DeLay, Rohrabacher and Dunn campaigns, which jointly funded the trip, paid Group W a total of $3,057 – about what DeLay would have paid for a single hour on the jet, if he were paying for it on his own.
DeLay's spokeswoman, Shannon Flaherty, declined to answer questions regarding the Group W flight. "He has a lot of other things on his mind these days," she said. .......
...FEC records show that DeLay took his first Group W flight in June 2003 on a trip with Cunningham. The two legislators paid a combined total of $3,765 for the trip. DeLay also used the Lear jet to fly to a campaign event for Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, in July 2004 at a cost of $2,350. The political action committee of Rep. Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, also paid $1,590 for tickets on the plane.
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If you could only see yourselves.... repeating the talking points about the "threat of the terrorists", and the "War on Terror", blissful in your self imposed denial of the contradictions that scream of the pages of the newspapers that risk telling the rest of us, what IS HAPPENING....you might have some understanding about what I'm talking about....If you could see.... |