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Title: "At War" with DHS, GOP Homeland Security Chair Implies Dirty Dealings In Shirlington Deal
Source: TPM Muckraker
URL Source: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000812.php
Published: Jun 3, 2006
Author: Justin Rood
Post Date: 2006-06-04 10:50:33 by aristeides
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Views: 125
Comments: 12

"At War" with DHS, GOP Homeland Security Chair Implies Dirty Dealings In Shirlington Deal

By Justin Rood - June 3, 2006, 10:35 AM

That Shirlington Limousine story isn't over.

On Thursday, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee went on Hardball and gave it to the Homeland Security Department with both barrels -- first for cutting preparedness funding to New York, and then for making what he thinks may be a corrupt deal with the Shirlington Limo company.

"[T]here’s issues we’re looking into as to whether or not other companies were asked not to bid" on the $21 million contract, said Rep. Peter King (R-NY). The contract ultimately went to Shirlington, the troubled transportation company with strange ties to powerful Republicans.

I didn't catch the show, but in the transcript King -- declaring "I am at war with the Department of Homeland Security" -- sounds nearly apoplectic:

You had the orgies going on at the Watergate Hotel, with prostitutes, pimps, booze, card games, Duke Cunningham, lobbyists, CIA. The people were driven and the prostitutes were driven to the Watergate Hotel in limousines owned by a company which was run by a crook, which lost two of its previous contracts but was given a $21 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security to drive the top executives of the department around Washington. . . .

And there’s a lobbyist who was involved with the company who is also involved with Duke Cunningham and somehow mysteriously this company gets a $21 million contract to escort or to drive around the Department of Homeland Security’s top officials.

I'll grant DHS this much: It takes guts to cut funding to a Congressman's state when he's sitting on a pile of corruption allegations about you, and holds the power to subpoena your documents and testimony. (Thanks to CQ's Patrick Yoest for pointing this transcript out to me.)

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And there’s a lobbyist who was involved with the company who is also involved with Duke Cunningham and somehow mysteriously this company gets a $21 million contract to escort or to drive around the Department of Homeland Security’s top officials.

Check the ping lists everyone, join or start one.

robin  posted on  2006-06-04   11:40:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

you have mail!

AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt  posted on  2006-06-06   17:25:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Here's some background, check the embedded links too.

The Watergate hotel was being used to host parties held by lobbyists. The parties included prostitution and limo service. I don't know about human trafficking, but given the Boys Town debacle written about in the late 80s by Paul Rodriguez in the Washington Times (midnight tours of the WH), and the recent, rapid growth in human slavery, who knows.

Maureen Dowd wrote a good piece on the Watergate, as has Wonkette here.

"The Only Hookers Fox WON'T Cover"
The NationMon May 8, 11:49 AM ET

As Media Matters astutely noted, these are the "only hookers Fox WON'T cover."

Maureen Dowd: Poker, Hookers and Spooks

Maureen Dowd | May 6

NYT - So much news was popping out all over Washington yesterday, it was hard to decide which way to look.

I felt I had no choice but to go with Dusty Foggo, Top Spook.

There was also the story of a Kennedy cover-up, moonlight car accident and drug abuse. Been there, done that.And the story of a top U.S. official stuck in the cold war taunting the Russian bear. Been there, done that. And the story of a delusional secretary of defense being confronted in public for lying about an unpopular war producing a steady stream of body bags. Been there, done that.

But Dusty Foggo? That's a name for a spy that tops Valerie Plame, or even Valerie Flame. And when you add Dusty to Duke, you've really got something.

(All articles posted under fair use rules in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, and are strictly for the educational and informative purposes of our readers.)

Dusty was handpicked by Porter Goss in late 2004 to be the No. 3 C.I.A. official, astonishing many agency veterans, according to Newsweek.

Dusty turns out to be a friend of a defense contractor implicated in the federal corruption investigation of the imprisoned Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a former G.O.P. congressman. The contractor, Brent Wilkes, is now entangled in allegations of louche and lewd behavior involving limos, hookers, a poker player with a missing digit from the C.I.A. nicknamed "Nine Fingers," and Watergate hospitality suites where more was offered than just Scotch and pretzels.

Been to the Watergate, haven't done that.

Yesterday, Porter Goss lost the job he never should have had in the first place. After John Negroponte gave Mr. Goss the ax, W. went biking in Beltsville, Md.

When spooks get spiked, W. spins the spokes.

The C.I.A. missed 9/11 and W.M.D., so you'd think President Bush would want a superstar in the job. Instead, he put in a Cheney lackey whose first move was to warn agency employees to get in line, that their job was to "support the administration and its policies." Mr. Goss's last move was to fire a top C.I.A. officer, Mary McCarthy, who was accused of, but denied, leaking the secret C.I.A. prisons story.

Mr. Goss got the job even though the 9/11 commissioners had declared that Congressional oversight of intelligence was "dysfunctional" at a time he ran the House intelligence panel.

He got the job even though he tried to help the vice president suffocate the 9/11 commission. At the C.I.A., he relied on so many cronies, he made Brownie look professional.

The benign but still disturbing explanation for his abrupt termination— given all the home videos that Qaeda terrorists are brazenly sending out — is that he and John "10 Fingers" Negroponte were fighting over access to W., like teenage girls over the prom king. (Wasn't Mr. Negroponte's position created to quell turf battles?)

Even conservatives found yesterday's chain of events suspicious. Bill Kristol said on Fox News, "I think there were either serious disputes or some internal problem at the agency or some scandal conceivably involving an associate of Goss's."

The president is supposed to announce Mr. Goss's successor on Monday.

It's clear that the White House is again making policy on the fly.

With all these loony threads, conspiracy theorists are having fun weaving dime-novel scenarios.

After all, Ms. McCarthy, the C.I.A. officer ousted by Porter Goss, worked in the agency's inspector general's office. That office — charged with investigating transgressions by C.I.A. employees, like questionable dealings with defense contractors in hotel rooms, with poker and perhaps even pajama games — is now examining Mr. Foggo's dealings with Mr. Wilkes.

Ms. McCarthy was known to be a supporter of John Kerry, not one of the Bush loyalists who could be counted on to see no evil.

She has been labeled a traitor by the right, just as Ray McGovern, a former C.I.A. analyst who challenges Rummy's veracity, is being Swift-boated as a nut case and partisan.

Mr. McGovern and other disgruntled retired spooks say the C.I.A. has been misused, abused and marginalized by the Bush hawks. Rummy even formed his own C.I.A. within the Pentagon to get the prewar intelligence that he and Dick "Trigger Finger" Cheney wanted to hear.

Are disgusted retired C.I.A. analysts colluding with disgusted retired generals to wreak revenge on Rummy, who ran roughshod over them all?

Is W.'s dad sending him a message? Mr. McGovern, oddly enough, was a C.I.A. briefer for Poppy. Or are those just wild Potomac conspiracy theories?

Weirdest of all, Patrick Kennedy's car accident was just a block or so from Mr. Goss's Capitol Hill town house. Coincidence?

Hard to tell, in the Foggo of war.

robin  posted on  2006-06-06   17:51:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Rummy even formed his own C.I.A. within the Pentagon to get the prewar intelligence that he and Dick "Trigger Finger" Cheney wanted to hear.

The CIA's intel must be as accurate as possible because they can be held accountable.

But, Rummy wanted the raw data to spin any way that benefits the neocrooks, because they have no intention of being held accountable.

I'll bet they've already agreed that presidential pardons are likely, and it is that security that explains their reckless actions.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2006-06-06   18:32:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

The television "The Agency" was axed, although a hit. I think it was partly due to how they showed how easily this could have been done.

robin  posted on  2006-06-06   18:38:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I didn't know that.

But, your conclusion makes sense.

I know that Hoover used to approve every script of the TV show, The FBI!

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2006-06-07   10:08:44 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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And they had one episode that was rather sympathetic to arabs.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285332/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Agency
The Episodes usually involved the Director or Deputy Director learning of possible terrorist threats. There would then be a conference with the DCI, DDCI, the Clandestine Operations Officer (Matt Callan or A.B. Stiles) and representatives of the art department. The focus would then be on the art department creating necessary documents or innocuous looking weapons which were needed for the Clandestine Operations officer(s) to fullfill their mission. In one instance, the art department painted a bowl of Semtex to look like an antique bowl so that a terrorist who collected antiques would buy it and was in this way eliminated.

* The Show was not renewed for a third season by CBS. Due to this there were large petitions to make CBS renew The Agency for another Season or Simply another episode to conclude the cliffhanger which is to date unresolved.

* The show was originally conceived as a look at how the CIA was surviving in the post-Cold War era. When the World Trade Center was destroyed, it changed the entire focus of the show and required the replacement of the character of Alex Pierce.

http://tv.yahoo.com/tvpdb?d=tvi&cf=0&id=1807778425

http://www.tv.com/agency/show/2126/summary.html

http://acewebnet.com/tv/agency/

robin  posted on  2006-06-07 10:28:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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