Here is the same poster in the Comments section:
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http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/28765#comment-6266Earmark quality likely to improve!
Submitted by Anonymous on 13 June 2007 - 4:54pm.
Last October the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence reported that Cunningham's "illicit" earmarks funded "illicit" contracts. They also noted that Cunningham's earmarks granted Brent Wilkes control of the evaluation process of a majority of the government's grants programs. Just two months before...last August the Associated Press learned Wilkes was being linked to Russia. This meant Wilkes was evaluating the merit of ideas presented to the grants programs according to a Kremlin agenda and hence, not showing impartiality.
I did not know about the earmarking process, but I did know that beginning in 2002 my company was being denied RnD grants while in 2003-2007 many complimentary things appeared in the press from US DHS and Congressional mouths referring to my company's technological invention. In contrast, information collected on our activities by US intelligence agencies was abused and our CEO kept retreating to new democracies to evade sabotage. He was stalked and each new endeavor was taken down. Our latest RnD operation to be taken down was in France on March 1 which also is the day we were dethroned from our # 1 position as the drivers' license standard by the US DHS Office of General Counsel.
Beginning in 12/01 the Russian federal government began offering my company a 100 % financing package. We knew the Kremlin wanted to abuse our platform to harm Americans and everyone else residing within a democracy, so while the offer continued to be sweetened and later 2 buyout offers were made, we declined the offers and Wilkes continued to have our applications for grants turned-down at gate/phase 1 of the grants programs. Accomplices in Congress drew-up legislation that fixed federal law to inferior standards such as the biometric smart card.
Only when I began to link the sabotage of our U.S. and overseas operations to various corruption probes just over 1 1/2 years ago (Abramoff first) including the Cunningham probe did I learn of the earmarking process.
We now are up for a Schumer earmark. The same process that over and over again was abused for the Kremlin's benefit to take down many RnD operations, might become the process that finally enables Americans to have access to our platform. In business it isn't just about making money, but about making it in a socially responsible fashion so that you can sleep each night the rest of your life with a clean conscience. To date, the CEO's and my loyalty to the US and democracy enabled many people in government favoring (committing official acts for) Russia to stab us in the back, but the Schumer earmark might just be what redeems the U.S. federal government so it no longer is rated as our # 1 enemy!
This is just the story of what NIST calls "smart wallet" in its Biometrics and Security Systems and Applications program. I am aware there are other hi-tech companies that have the very same story we have! Using or should I say abusing the earmarking process enabled Russia to take control of our grants programs with Brent Wilkes as its agent. Every technological idea of merit was denied funding in the programs Wilkes controlled so that Russia could lure these companies within its borders and control them. If they declined the Russian offers then Wilkes and Dustin Foggo made sure they outright went out of business. Our grants programs were funded and did pay-out...to have crut developed! Our taxpayer dollars were wasted developing crut while deporting Americans' best ideas to Russia!
I more than anything want to point out that the corruption scandals have taught the companies that have good ideas that were denied funding in grants programs because Wilkes was working for Russia, that they should tap the earmarking system. For 2008, the quality of earmarks as a whole ought to be going up!