Since Richard Perle is back in the news, I thought I'd revive this thread

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

This thread was research on the Defense Policy Board and their war profiteering members, created prior to the war. Darn near everything you'd want to know about the people who SOLD this war is in this thread.....also I wanted some of the great research by long time DU'ers brought back to light.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=1033&forum=DCForumID62&archive=yes

This article in LBN made me go look for the above gem:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=578099

[salin]

1. Somewhere in the past 48+ hours - in the Chalabi related stories

another DPB name came up.... Woolsey. Read so many items that off the top of my head I can not recall where he showed up in the recent stories.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. I haven't read them all yet

but that story made me want other DU'ers to know how thick the smell is.

[salin]

4. either no one is noticing

or the size of that thread is just overwhelming. Still - I think it is worth the skim. I think that a number of these names are going to start resurfacing as the whole Chalabi thing continues to unravel.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. me too! that's why I am gonna kick it back up

[salin]

3. This wasn't the item I recalled

but it is interesting

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/27/1434258
Tuesday, April 27th, 2004
Congress Probes INC's Lobbying Efforts

The Knight Ridder News Service is reporting that the Iraqi National Congress of Ahmed Chalabi may have violated restrictions against using taxpayer money to lobby when it campaigned for the US invasion of Iraq.
---snip
Ahmed Chalabi has long been a favorite of hawks at the Pentagon and CIA. And there have been internal fights within the Washington power establishment over supporting him. The INC was the major recipient of nearly $100 million dollars in US funds in 1998. And the group hired Shea and Gardner, the law firm of former CIA director James Woolsey, to represent their interests in Washington.

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He also appears to have (old) Titan corp connections (you know - one of those private contractor co.s in trouble at Abu Ghraib)

http://www.counterpunch.org/valentine05082004.html

May 8 / 9, 2004

Torture, the CIA and the Press
Who Let the Dogs Out?
By DOUGLAS VALENTINE

(skipping to reference...)
Again, Hersh is careful in what he doesn't say. For example, former CIA Director (and unofficial "black propaganda" minister) R. James Woolsey was, in 1985, one of seven directors of the Titan Corporation. In 2002, Titan employed Adel Nakhla, who was assigned by Titan as a civilian translator to the 205th MI Brigade. Notably, Nakhla is named as a "suspect" in the Taguba Report, which Seymour Hersh analyzed and then presented to the public in an article for The New Yorker, even before the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff had, by his own account, had a chance to read it.1

Curiously, this writer knows of one former CIA contract officer who, before joining the Titan Corporation, worked as a Phoenix Coordinator in Vietnam in 1967. This same individual served in 1974 as a congressional liaison officer for CIA officer Donald Gregg. As Vice-President George H. W. Bush's National Security Advisor, Gregg helped to create the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center under Duane Clarridge in 1986. Gregg had managed the Phoenix Program in III Corps in Vietnam in 1970.

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[JHB]

6. It's Tammany Hall all over

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1656482