Hayden linked to Cunningham scandal!

[AnnInLa]

(is anyone not linked to the C. scandal?)

snip snip

Hayden, President Bush's pick to replace Porter Goss as head of the CIA, contracted with MZM Inc. for the services of Lt. Gen. James C. King, then a senior vice president of the company, the sources say. MZM was owned and operated by Mitchell Wade, who has admitted to bribing former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham with $1.4 million in money and gifts. Wade has also reportedly told investigators he helped arrange for prostitutes to entertain the disgraced lawmaker, and he continues to cooperate with a federal inquiry into the matter.

go read the whole piece at:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000581.php

[babylonsister]

1. May I be the first to say...

:wow: :wow: You can't make this stuff up!

[Frustratedlady]

2. It's Beginning To Look Like...

this Cunningham web caught a lot of Rebugs. They may have to call DeLay in to exterminate.

I am moving up to buttered and salted popcorn. This show is too good for that healthy stuff.

[ChiciB1]

3. Well, I Would Say That We Need To Contact Our Senators About

this article! With the way things are done these days, we can't waste any time getting this out in front of them.

We'll get screwed again, and we may get screwed anyway, but any effort on our part should be taken don't you thing???

[Justice Is Comin]

4. Bald

ain't beautiful in the least with this spy freak.

[DUHandle]

5. Holy Shit

Hayden looks a lot like Dick Cheney!

[LiberalEsto]

12. He's Mini-Me! nt

[Hubert Flottz]

14. Them reich wankers all kind of look alike?

[havocmom]

6. More importantly, he doesn't fully recoginze the 4th Ammendment

THAT should REALLY worry all Americans

[MADem]

7. Ah, special projects AND high-ranking advisory work!

So THAT'S what they call it...

King worked at NSA Headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland, in 2004 and 2005, both sources told me. "King was out there working on same floor as Hayden," one former employee with firsthand knowledge of the arrangement said. "He was doing special projects for Hayden as an MZM employee." Neither former employee knew details of King's work for Hayden; one said he thought he was doing "special projects" for the director, while the other speculated it was "high-ranking advisory work."

The NSA did not immediately respond to my request for comment. Hayden left the NSA in April 2005 to take the post of Deputy Director of National Intelligence. The DNI office referred my call on the matter to the NSA.

As an MZM employee, King was involved in a number of controversial projects. In 2002, he was a key adviser to the team creating CIFA, the Pentagon's domestic surveillance operation. In 2004, he was one of three MZM staffers who worked on the White House Robb-Silberman Commission, which recommended expanding CIFA's powers.

NSA is home to its own controversial project, of course -- the post-9/11 warrantless domestic wiretapping operation known as the "terrorist surveillance program." There is no indication that King has been involved in that project.

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. Of course, the REAL scandal is his connection to Negroponte,

the death-squad facilitator.

But I'll take what I can get. After all, Al Capone went down for tax evasion, not murder.

[Sinti]

11. The death-squad facilitator - does it ever shock you that this man

holds the highest office in American intelligence, in charge of all the others? The world of wonderful American GIs with chocolate bars, and wholesome smiles that my grandmother told me about really was a fairytale -- or maybe these guys just killed them all off.

[jsamuel]

9. eh, there are 2 degrees of separation here

be careful, there isn't much there from what I read

[Catrina]

10. Maybe we should let him get nominated? Having to remove another

nominee because of 'ethical challenges' won't do Bush any good ~ (Bernie Kerik, eg and Harriet Myers) it shows how weak he is and how little they care about the ethics of their nominees.

But mostly, this man does not know the Consitution. That is really a problem and explains his involvment in the illegal Domestic Spying program. His oath is to defend and protect the Constitution, which has already failed to do, because he is not familiar with it. That's enough to throw this nomination out, imo.

[AllieB]

13. I'm having a hard time keeping up with all the scandals!

These scumbags are all so intertwined, I can't remember which Republicans are corrupt. Maybe it's easier to remember which ones aren't corrupt.