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WaPo Exposé:Bush/RNC Croney Lurita Doan is "GSA Chief Seeks to Cut Budget For Audits"
On Dec. 2, 2006, roachboy started a new thread, <b>" conservative economic ideology and iraq"</b>
linked here: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...67&postcount=1
rb's OP contained an article that began with:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...120101645.html
GSA Chief Seeks to Cut Budget For Audits
Contract Oversight Would Be Reduced
By Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, December 2, 2006; A01
The new chief of the U.S. General Services Administration is trying to limit the ability of the agency's inspector general to audit contracts for fraud or waste and has said oversight efforts are intimidating the workforce, according to government documents and interviews.
GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan, a Bush political appointee and former government contractor, has proposed cutting $5 million in spending on audits and shifting some responsibility for contract reviews to small, private audit contractors.
Doan also has chided Inspector General Brian D. Miller for not going along with her attempts to streamline the agency's contracting efforts. In a private staff meeting Aug. 18, Doan said Miller's effort to examine contracts had "gone too far and is eroding the health of the organization," according to notes of the meeting written by an unidentified participant from the Office of Inspector General (OIG).
The GSA is responsible for managing about $56 billion worth of contracts each year for the departments of Defense and Homeland Security and other agencies.
Doan compared Miller and his staff to terrorists, according to a copy of the notes obtained by The Washington Post.
"There are two kinds of terrorism in the US: the external kind; and, internally, the IGs have terrorized the Regional Administrators," Doan said, according to the notes.
Through a spokesman, Doan said she respects the inspector general's role and is not doing anything to undercut his independence. She also denied that she had referred to Miller, a former terrorism prosecutor, or his staff as terrorists.
"She's trying to reduce wasteful spending," said GSA spokesman David Bethel. "Just like any other office within GSA, she has asked the OIG to live within his budget, and she's hopeful that the IG is going to embrace that concept. She is not singling him out for this attention. She's not challenging the IG's independence. This is about fiscal discipline and reducing wasteful spending and creating a business environment that can be embraced by everyone.
"By law, she can't reduce the IG's independence, and she's aware of that."
Doan, who was confirmed as administrator May 26, has publicly criticized Miller on other occasions. In her Nov. 10 annual report, Doan stated there was only one GSA manager unwilling to "confront programs and policies that had outlived their usefulness and were wasting taxpayer money." She later told Miller that she was referring to him, according to officials familiar with Doan's statement who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution.
Doan also complained in the annual report that Miller was being "unsupportive of recent changes" and said vendors and government contracting officials had reported that his auditors and investigators were exerting "undue pressure."
Bethel said yesterday that Doan's statement in her annual report "speaks for itself," and he declined to elaborate.
Miller declined to discuss his relationship with Doan.
"Let's keep our eyes on the larger picture, which is that GSA's $60 billion operations need to have objective and independent scrutiny," Miller said. "My office provides that public scrutiny. Not everyone is happy with this level of scrutiny. Nevertheless, my task is to keep our office focused on fulfilling our mission of working with GSA to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the services it provides, protect the integrity of GSA operations, and to keep fraud, waste and abuse away from its doorstep."
Before joining the GSA in August 2005, Miller served as a federal prosecutor and worked on the government's case against al-Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has written to Doan expressing his concerns.
"The primary mission of the IG in your agency and every other government agency is to be a sentry standing guard against fraud, waste, and abuse wherever it occurs regardless of circumstances," Grassley wrote on Oct. 20. "This cannot be accomplished if the IG's independence is impaired or hindered by the agency in any way, shape, or form."
Doan responded by acknowledging his concerns and saying she was mainly focusing on balancing her agency's budget.
"Please be assured that I do not -- and should not -- decide which audits or investigations the IG pursues," she wrote to Grassley. "That would be inappropriate.".....
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I had read this, the day before roachboy started his thread, and the combination of the two encounters with the Lurita Doan "story" spurred me to find out what I could about her....and some of you know what that means, another series of "too loooonnnnngggg" posts from "host"!
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/011360.php
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The new chief of the U.S. General Services Administration is trying to limit the ability of the agency's inspector general to audit contracts for fraud or waste and has said oversight efforts are intimidating the workforce, according to government documents and interviews.
GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan, a Bush political appointee and former government contractor, has proposed cutting $5 million in spending on audits and shifting some responsibility for contract reviews to small, private audit contractors......
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....Although the Post story doesn't mention it, you might recall that <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/safavian.php">David Safavian</a>, the chief of staff at the GSA earlier in the Bush presidency, was <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2097589">convicted</a> for, among other things, lying to the GSA inspector general about his connections to Jack Abramoff. So of course we need less oversight.
-- David Kurtz
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I marveled at the idea that the Bush folks experienced the Safavian arrest and conviction, the resignation and shop lifting/returned merchandise scheme arrest of chief white house domestic policy advisor<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Allen">Claude Allen</a>, the exposure of the corruption of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and the fact that his former key assistant, Susan Ralston was appointed by Bush and Rove, as their key assistant, and sat at a desk, for 5 years, just down the hall from Bush, while she continued to work on behalf of Abramoff and his corporate, political, and tribal clients, and the farce of Bush patting "Brownie", the fired Arabian horses judge, appointed by Bush to head FEMA, on the back at the height of the Katrina disaster, only to fire him, just days later as the press exposed Brown's lack of qualifications and his partisan PR priorities....plus the fact that nearly all of the managers one level under Brown at FEMA were also unqualified politcal hacks....and on and on....<b>yet they still had the resolve and partisan blinded stupidity to appoint Lurita Doan, and who knows who else, only to quite predictably experience the exposure of never ending ill advised and unqualified crony appointments blowing up in their faces, and all of ours...</b>
I ended up not basing a new thread on my Lurita Doan research....what I found about her impressed on me that she was merely a greedy, ambitious hypocrite who used her gender and "minority" status to grow rich and successful solely by obtaining lucrative government contracts using opportunities afforded by affirmative action, a concept that she and the political party that she served and donated so much money to, is ironically very intent on eliminating, at least for the truly needy and politically and genetically "unconnected".
I thought that it was curious that Lurita, a Vassar grad who majored in arts and humanities studies, could vault her startup company from an initial, small computer UNIX programming related contract with the USDA, in 1990, to, while she was at the end of a pregnancy and about to deliver her child, an emergency assignment to board US Navy aircraft carriers in Norfolk, VA to perform UNIX programming on a vital weapons system. I was surprised that the Navy would allow someone with no security clearances and no resume to support a history of that type of work, would need or permit such an opportunity for Lurita, seemingly at a moment's notice.
I thought that it was curious that her company grew slowly during the Clinton administration, only to experience at least a ten fold increase in revenue and profits since 2000. I was struck by the contradicting descriptions that I found, of Lurita....on the one hand, a micro manager who demanded that her staff use only one model of ball point pen, and that they use only photo copies, inside her company, of expensive letterhead stationary designed to impress the outside world, resulting in insignificant operational savings, compared to her company's revenue, and on the other hand, reports that described her as a "big picture" executive who delegated the details to her staff.
I learned that, before she and her husband sold their suddenly hugely successful company to a profit investment group in 2005, her company was described as the "lead" Dept. of Homeland Security contractor, and that it had enjoyed contracts associated with DOD Drone Aircraft that experienced crash frequencies 100 times the rate of manned aircraft, and that her company was responsible for installing and linking, via the internet, all of the US Border patrol camera network in the southwest US. This project was never completed, and many of the installed and formerly operating cameras were rendered inoperable by vandalism, the elements, and by poor performance of installation and maintenance contractors......
I am an amatuer....just an interested citizen incensed by the bullshit that seemed to gain new inertia on election day, 2000, on the heels of the Richard Scaife financed, six years of the Ken Starr "Op". I got some answers about how Lurita came to be appointed to sabotage the GSA inspector general's office.....
....but I don't have the deep pockets, connections and staff of the WaPo, and now, maybe they've turned this latest insult to our sensibilities and government accountability, into much more than I could hope to do:
Donations to RNC and republican candidates by Lurita and her husband, Doug:
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/se...n&submit=Go%21
(I counted about $190,000 in donations by the pair, since 1999, and it put them at the end of the top 5000 donors to republicans in the nation.)
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...-SearchStories
RNC Takes a Jab at Democratic Base: Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie kicks off a four-city tour with boxing promoter Don King on Thursday in Detroit designed to "take President Bush’s message of opportunity and economic empowerment to African American business leaders," the RNC announced.
Gillespie and King, who some might cast as a political odd couple, also will travel to Philadelphia, New York and Miami to campaign for Bush.
Joining King and Gillespie in Detroit are Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, <b>New Technology Management Inc. CEO Lurita Doan</b> and Miss America 2003 Erika Harold.
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http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news...d.asp?id=17825
Remarks by Patricia Stout and Lurita Doan as Prepared for Delivery at the 2004 Republican National Convention on Wednesday, September 1, Evening Session 7 - 10 P.M. EDT
PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/
Lurita Doan I am a small business owner.
I started my business 14 years ago with nothing more than $25 worth of business cards printed at Kinkos and a good idea.
Today we have over 150 employees, and thanks to President Bush's tax policies, the company is growing. I come from generations of Black entrepreneurs who started businesses under Republican administrations, going back to my great grandmother.
She sold pralines in New Orleans after President Lincoln freed the slaves. My grandmother started a business school during Teddy Roosevelt's administration.
I founded New Technology Management during the presidency of another friend of small businesses, George H. W. Bush.
Today our technology secures the borders at land border ports across the U.S. It's always been clear: Republicans understand that creating opportunities for individuals and for small businesses is what makes America great.
President Bush understands that lowering the tax burden for small businesses translates into jobs and economic security for millions of Americans.
He's committed to making health care affordable for small business owners and their employees.
No matter the color of your skin, whether you're a man or woman, and no matter whether you're selling pralines on the docks of New Orleans or developing cutting-edge technology, small businesses benefit from Republican leadership. George Bush has provided that leadership and that is why I'll be hiring 75 more people in the coming year.
That's why I'm working hard to re-elect George Bush as President of the United States because he's working hard to keep the American dream alive for all of us.
Thank you. Paid for by the Committee on Arrangements for the 2004 Republican National Convention 2 Penn Plaza * New York, NY 10121 * (212) 356-2004 Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee2004 Republican National Convention
Web site: http://www.gopconvention.com/
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http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...cid=1112808840
<b>GSA Chief Scrutinized For Deal With Friend
No-Bid Contract A Mistake, She Says</b>
By Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, January 19, 2007; A01
The chief of the U.S. General Services Administration attempted to give a no-bid contract to a company founded and operated by a longtime friend, sidestepping federal laws and regulations, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan, a former government contractor appointed by President Bush, personally signed the deal to pay a division of her friend's public relations firm $20,000 for a 24-page report promoting the GSA's use of minority- and woman-owned businesses, the documents show.
The contract was terminated last summer after GSA lawyers and other agency officials pointed out possible procurement violations, including the failure to adequately justify the no-bid deal or have it reviewed in advance by trained procurement officers, officials said.
The GSA's Office of Inspector General has launched an investigation into the episode and briefed Justice Department lawyers, according to sources who said they were not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation. Officials at the inspector general's office and the Justice Department declined to comment.
In an interview Wednesday, Doan said she believed she was following proper procedures to hire the best firm available to quickly produce a report on diversity practices.
"I made a mistake," Doan said. "I thought I was moving this along. I was immediately informed that I wasn't necessarily moving it along in the way that was best for it. So at which point they canceled it, life went on, no money exchanged hands, no contract exchanged hands.
"I'm stunned, absolutely stunned by the amount of legs that this has taken, you know, how this has like kind of jumped up and run away with things."
The friend, public relations executive Edie Fraser, declined to comment.
"I can't," Fraser said. "I just admire her immensely."
Since assuming the helm of the GSA in May, Doan has repeatedly clashed with others within the agency over her intervention in matters that previous administrators delegated to subordinates, in part to avoid the appearance of political influence. The GSA is the largest broker of goods and services for the federal government, managing nearly $56 billion worth of contracts a year.
Last month, a dispute between Doan and her own inspector general's office became public when The Post reported that she had proposed curtailing the office's contract audits and had compared its enforcement efforts to "terrorism." Doan said she was interested in cutting wasteful spending by the agency and denied making the comparison.
Doan, 49, is a rising political star in the Republican Party who hit turbulence soon after she took over the GSA. She grew up in the downtrodden Ninth Ward section of New Orleans and was one of the first African American children to attend the city's private schools. <b>She later went to Vassar College and obtained an advanced degree in Renaissance literature from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.</b>
Doan often speaks to groups about overcoming the struggles in her past and reminisces about how her great-grandmother fed the family by selling pralines on the docks in New Orleans. The family home was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina.
She was appointed to run the GSA after a 15-year career as owner of New Technology Management Inc. <b>The Reston-based firm, which provides surveillance equipment for border security and other projects, was named in 2004 as one of the nation's fastest-growing small technology businesses.
During her business career, Doan developed close ties to the GOP. Between 1999 and 2006, she and her husband, Douglas, a former military intelligence officer and business liaison official at the Department of Homeland Security, donated nearly $226,000 to Republican campaigns and causes, documents show.</b>
In 2004, Bush introduced Doan at a Commerce Department event for women who own small businesses. Later that year, Doan was invited to speak at the Republican National Convention in New York. In 2005, Doan sold her firm for an undisclosed sum to a group of investors and retired. <b>At the time, New Technology Management had revenue of nearly $20 million and government contracts worth more than $200 million.</b>
Last spring, the Bush administration asked Doan to take over the GSA, which had been shaken by scandal after lobbyist Jack Abramoff tried to obtain properties under GSA control. Abramoff took then-GSA chief of staff David H. Safavian and others on an all-expenses-paid golf trip to Scotland, and Safavian provided Abramoff with inside information about the properties. Both men have been convicted.
On April 6, Bush nominated Doan to be the first female administrator in GSA history. She pledged to make the agency operate more like a private business and to "restore GSA's leadership as the premier contracting and service provider."
<b>On July 25, two months after taking office, Doan signed the no-bid contract with Public Affairs Group Inc. and two of its divisions, the Business Women's Network and Diversity Best Practices. The companies were founded and are operated by Fraser, the president and chief executive of Public Affairs Group and the president of Diversity Best Practices. The contract was signed on the letterhead of the two divisions, and Doan said Diversity Best Practices was to have done the work.
An online newsletter posted by Diversity Best Practices and the Business Women's Network in 2003 called Doan a "partner" and described her as "one of the nation's best and brightest women entrepreneurs."
Deneen Vaughn, a former vice president of Public Affairs Group, told The Post in an interview last week that Doan's company often sponsored programs arranged by the Business Women's Network and spoke at the group's events.
"She's been a longtime friend and business partner of Edie Fraser," said Vaughn, who left the organization in May. "She supported the growth and development of the company, and she mentors other members of our organization."
The companies run by Fraser routinely sponsor diversity-oriented events that attract such luminaries as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Fortune 500 executives.
Early in her career, Fraser worked as an Africa desk officer for the Peace Corps. She later started Edie Fraser Associates, a public relations firm that won a measure of notoriety in 1980 when it secured a $9,800 no-bid contract to study the Commerce Department's public relations office.
Then-Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) gave the deal one of his famous "Golden Fleece" awards for the misuse of tax dollars, saying Commerce already had 112 public relations employees.
In the mid-1980s, Fraser turned her attention to helping female and minority entrepreneurs, producing a series of reports about their changing status in the U.S. economy.
<b>Fraser and Doan have appeared on the same panels and lavished praise and awards on each other at conferences. They also served together on the national advisory board of Enterprising Women, a magazine for female business owners. "Lurita Doan is precisely what this nation needs," the magazine quoted Fraser as saying, admiring Doan's business acumen, in 2003.
Last summer, two weeks before Doan signed the contract with the companies run by Fraser, she attended a star-studded gala sponsored by those companies called "Celebrating Diversity -- the Changing Demographics of America."
"It is so important, as women, to extend that helping hand to one another, that we help mentor each other and give us that extra break that we need to move our way to the top," Doan said, according to a copy of her remarks on an event Web page.
The contract Doan signed with the companies directed them to produce a report promoting GSA's "major achievements" in contracting with minority- and women-owned businesses. The contract called for producing a report that would be "approximately 24 pages." It would contain profiles of diversity success stories at the GSA and include "recommendations for how to use the report."
Doan said she did not use the GSA's public affairs division, which has about a dozen employees who develop information about the agency's programs, because she wanted to employ an expert in the diversity field.
"Diversity Best Practices is the industry leader in this area," she said. "They have won countless awards on diversity representation and issues."</b>
The contract should have been competitively bid, according to procurement experts and officials familiar with the arrangement. Under federal regulations, contracts worth more than $2,500 at the time were to have been open to competition, unless there were extenuating circumstances. Those include disasters and instances in which the bidding process could cause "unacceptable delays in fulfilling the agency's requirements," according to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, which governs all federal contracting.
The general counsel of the GSA at the time, Alan R. Swendiman, advised Doan to terminate the contract. It was then terminated by a GSA contracting officer. Swendiman left the agency a short time later and is now a special assistant to the president and director of the White House Office of Administration. He declined to comment.
Contracting experts said Doan should have steered clear of the contract.
"Only contracting officers can sign federal contracts and obligate federal funds," said D. Kent Goodger, a federal contracting official for 38 years who now teaches federal procurement courses for the Agriculture Department and other agencies. "Anyone who assumes that they have that authority, like the administrator of GSA, is wrong."
Steven L. Schooner, a procurement specialist at George Washington University's law school, called Doan's involvement in the contract "highly irregular."
"One of the things you're trying to avoid is political favoritism," he said. "You don't want the process polluted or corrupted by political influence."
Doan has taken other steps that have raised questions inside the agency, according to internal memos and e-mails obtained by The Post and interviews with GSA officials.
Last September, Doan intervened in an effort to determine whether five major contractors should be suspended from doing business with the federal government after they had been accused of making fraudulent claims. The firms -- KPMG, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz Allen Hamilton and BearingPoint Inc. -- had paid the Justice Department more than $66 million to settle allegations that they kept travel rebates from airlines and hotels that should have gone to the GSA, according to agency officials.
The GSA's debarment office initiated "suspension actions" against the companies and issued "show-cause" letters, asking the firms to explain why they should not be suspended or debarred, according to a Sept. 7 e-mail obtained by The Post. Companies found to be engaged in fraud can be suspended or banned from doing business with the federal government.
"I would expect that the companies will respond to me by saying that they have acknowledged their sins, paid restitution and have put in place measures to prevent a recurrence of this activity," GSA debarment official George N. Barclay wrote in the e-mail. "Suspension determinations could be avoided upon such a showing."
Three days later, Doan wrote to several senior GSA officials: "I do not recall this issue EVER coming up in a single management meeting or any meeting for that matter." She asked that the show-cause process be "stopped until cooler heads can prevail."
But the show-cause letters had already been sent, and the companies later avoided suspension or debarment by agreeing to return travel rebates in the future.
Goodger, the former government contracting official, said Doan's involvement was unusual and "creates an appearance of impropriety."
Doan acknowledged that her intervention was unusual but said she did not do anything improper.
"As the head of this agency, I have an obligation to weigh in and say, 'What is this matter, do you know what this matter is?' " she said.
"I don't want to be a rubber-stamp kind of figurehead administrator of this agency. I do not want to participate in the old go-along-to-get-along kind of Washington two-step-type activity. This is not what I'm here for. So, yes, I am going to be involved."
Doan also generated consternation within her agency and on Capitol Hill with her proposals to curb the agency's contract audits and to cut the inspector general's budget by $5 million. The audits, which aim to ensure that the government is getting the best prices for goods and services, have saved taxpayers more than $1 billion over the past two years, the inspector general's office reported.
Doan's efforts prompted senators and congressmen from both parties to write to her, requesting that she halt her plans.
"You have not made a coherent case that explains how your proposal would benefit the taxpayer compared to the system now in place," said one letter signed by three members of Congress, including Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees the GSA.
Doan has said publicly that the proposed cuts were part of an effort to reduce wasteful spending across the agency. Privately, she complained that Inspector General Brian D. Miller and his staff were intimidating GSA employees and vendors. She accused Miller's staff members of leaking budget information and asked for an investigation.
Doan also demanded that Miller notify her of all ongoing criminal probes of GSA employees and provide her with a monthly report of his office's activities. Miller said disclosing the cases could jeopardize investigations, and he disregarded Doan's requests for a leak investigation and monthly reports, according to a Jan. 10 memo obtained by The Post.
Doan said she has been misunderstood and is trying to do the best job she can.
"I bring the sensibility of someone whose favorite song is the national anthem. I love this country," Doan said. "I was one of the chosen ones who has had a chance to really live all aspects of the American dream. I feel so blessed to have this opportunity to give back."
Research editor Alice Crites contributed to this report.
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Drive-By Contracting
While the nation obsesses over Brangelina and baby, a little-known government bureaucrat has cached himself into a major career "upgrade", despite serious questions regarding his current job duties. Last year, the Washington Post was all over the Department of Homeland Security's $10 billion U.S. VISIT technology program for a variety of failures. James Williams ran the program, that is, until this week when he was appointed to be in charge of the Federal Acquisition Service (a fancy name for the government's buying catalogue).
For all those contractors eager to get their "hunting license" in thirty days, take some notes here. RIDICULOUS GIMMICKS WORK! Here's the Post's version of Williams awarding the U.S. Visit contract:
In February 2004, Accenture's team put on a demonstration for Williams in the suburban Virginia parking lot of another Accenture subcontractor. Accenture set up a make-believe checkpoint to simulate a border-crossing post. Williams was told to drive through to test Accenture's technical savvy. He accelerated to 40 miles per hour and passed through electronic sensors.
As Williams drove past the sensors, playing the role of foreign visitor, the system scanned a chip embedded in a mock passport. Moments later, an electronic sign proclaimed that "James Williams" was the man behind the wheel of the car. The show was a rousing success, Williams said.
But Accenture said that the demonstration had little to do with what will eventually be built.
Peter Soh, another Accenture spokesman, said in an e-mail that the "simulation Accenture staged was for demonstration purposes only. It was not a recommended solution or a technology offering, and in no way did it represent what the final US-VISIT solution will look like."
Accenture's team won the contract in May 2004. Company officials said the division working on US-VISIT is Accenture LLP, based in Northern Virginia.
Lest you think all must be well at U.S. VISIT since then, think again. Last month, the House Appropriations Committee threw the Washington, DC version of a hissy-fit when it docked $312 million out of $362 million of US VISIT’s budget. Recent reports from GAO and the DHS Inspector General raise more interesting issues regarding U.S. VISIT.
<b>But, one man's poison is another man's meat. Lurita Doan, the new General Services Administrator, is the person responsible for appointing Williams to his new gig overseeing who can sell to the government. <a href="http://www.powelltate.com/clientsinthenews/ntmi_nytimes.pdf">It seems likely</a> that Williams played some role in helping his new boss Lurita Doan to land contracts when she owned and ran New Technology Management</b>, a Reston, VA-based contractor for the Department of Homeland Security (among others).
-- Beth Daley
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Are our leaders and their political party benefactors noble partners committed to protecting the rest of us against enemies who "hate our freedom", or are they lying, greedy hypocrite traitors who terrorize us in order to steal our freedoms and our tax dollars?
<b>I am certain that there will be more disclosed about Lurita Doan, and it won't be flattering to an presidential administration that chooses (instead of honestly justifying) to order our young soldiers into situations where they get shot and blown up, and where they take away our bill of rights protections, all on the pretense that we are at "war". The trouble with that is..... if we truly are at war, the president and his men, and their political cronies, are acting as if they are the enemies of freedom who are terrorizing us....or, if you think I have it wrong....that I am confused....please correct me !</b> |
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