Brothers "Cookie" and "Buzzy" Krongard contradict each other on Blackwater

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Buzzy Krongard: I Told My Brother I Was Joining Blackwater's Advisory Board

By Spencer Ackerman - November 14, 2007, 5:30PM

Howard "Cookie" Krongard might have just perjured himself before the House Oversight Committee.

Earlier today, the State Department inspector general repeatedly told the panel that he was unaware his brother, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, had joined the advisory board of State Department security contractor Blackwater. Krongard said he had a single phone conversation with his brother about the issue, in October, in which Buzzy didn't tell Cookie he was joining the board.

Only Buzzy says that's not true.

In an exclusive interview with TPMmuckraker, Buzzy Krongard says that in that phone conversation, he specifically told Cookie Krongard he had agreed to join Blackwater's advisory board. "I had told my brother I was going on the advisory board," Buzzy Krongard says. "My brother says that is not the case. I stand by what I told my brother."

Buzzy Krongard says the phone conversation was more recent than Cookie Krongard indicated to the committee. Cookie said it took place about five or six weeks ago. Buzzy says it was about two or three weeks ago. Both men say there was just one phone conversation. How to reconcile the two accounts?

"I told him I was going on this board. He claims I didn't tell him," Buzzy Krongard says. "So what can I tell you?"

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[JDPriestly]

1. Buzzy thinks everything is OK cause he asked Blackwater

to pay his salary to a charity. First, that is another layer of investigation. It would be interesting to find out the name of the charity Buzzy is donating his salary to. Second, money is not the only remuneration for services that is available. As we have seen, a donation to a favorite charity can have great value in the world of the wealthy and influential. It can buy or repay favors. Most important, it buys further influence and the appearance of virtue and -- wealth. The appearance of wealth buys still more influence. Here, Buzzy moved from a career of intelligence and quasi-military government jobs into a position on Blackwater's advisory board. In the world of the wealthy, favors are exchanged in exactly this manner. The members and supporters of the Bush administration have a Mafia-like allegiance and loyalty to each other. Ultimately, the only real charity among those thieves is to each other and themselves.

[onethatcares]

2. how the hell do

people get the nickname "Buzzy" and "Cookie"? Why would they keep that stupid farce going after turning 21? Jeeeesusonajetski, I don't know anyone with a nickname.

[hisownpetard]

3. I was married to a "Buzz," much as I hate to admit it. His real name was

"Burgess." Don't know which is worse.

[johnfunk]

4. Crooky and Scuzzy Krongard: Poster Children for Club Fed

Throw away the key