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Subject: How Stuff Works: DoD WarBucks & Recruiting on Capital Hill
(WaPo Leak)
Date: Oct 30, 2009 8:25 AM
How WarBucks Work:
http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/10/29/charles-goyette-6/
Do the bubbles create the wars?
Durland Fish's Israeli NASA Eyeball-in-the-Sky Contract:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/msg/cb915b82a6bb3048?hl=en&&q=NASA+Durland+Fish+eyeball+in+the+sky
Lieberman Whores for BioweaponeerBucks:
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/10/hbc-90005996
Israeli ALDF.com Bioweaponeer Cabal:
http://www.actionlyme.org/ALDF_BOARD.htm
Zuckerman and Greenberg:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/94e9d21309f76177/508d7369ce25f5cc?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=evan+greenberg+mortimer+zuckerman+ALDF+sponsors#508d7369ce25f5cc
McSweegan's Junket to Israeli Bioweaponeerville:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse_thread/thread/a63289b2443bd71d/51a7d38421646af7?hl=en&q=mcsweegan+israel#51a7d38421646af7
Sweeg in Russia:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/msg/cca3e986469db781?dmode=source
(Akademgorodok)
Steere in Russia:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BOGUS_RUSSIAN_NYMC_ARTICLES.htm
Vice ALDF.com Chair Anthony J. Walton:
http://www.actionlyme.org/WALTON_VICE_CHAIR.htm
Walton's "Caspian Sea Securities":
http://www.actionlyme.org/ALDF_BOARD.htm
Sweeg in Europe:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CRYMEDISEASE_CHP3_B.htm
Who's Afraid of Israeli Weapons Thefts?:
http://amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/00006/
Tuft gets a whopping $1.7 million to do-over
the Mouse Infectivity Test:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BOGUS_RUSSIAN_NYMC_ARTICLES.htm
A famous subject also *already* studied
by Russia:
http://www.actionlyme.org/RICOCHRON.htm
1971:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1048219/pdf/brjvendis00083-0001.pdf
Ka-Ching. World's Most Expensive
Merry-Go-Round: Bubblers, and Bumblers
and WarBucks, Oh! My!
http://www.mpbn.net/Support/FeedYourRadioFeedAFamily/tabid/1127/Default.aspx
"More than 40% of Maine kids under the age of 12 show some evidence of
hunger"
Kathleen M. Dickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/29/AR2009102904699_pf.html
7 on defense panel scrutinized
Separate probes focus on ties to lobbying firm founded by Hill aide
By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 30, 2009
Nearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of
Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in
Congress, who have trained their lens on the relationships between
seven panel members and an influential lobbying firm founded by a
former Capitol Hill aide.
The investigations by two separate ethics offices include an
examination of the chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee on
defense, John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), as well as others who helped steer
federal funds to clients of the PMA Group. The lawmakers received
campaign contributions from the firm and its clients. A document
obtained by The Washington Post shows that the subcommittee members
under scrutiny also include Peter J. Visclosky (D-Ind.), James P.
Moran Jr. (D-Va.), Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) , C.W.
Bill Young (R-Fla.) and Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.).
The document also indicates that the House ethics committee's staff
recently interviewed the staff of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) about
his allegation that a PMA lobbyist threatened him in 2007 when he
resisted steering federal funds to a PMA client. The lobbyist told a
Nunes staffer that if the lawmaker didn't help, the defense contractor
would move out of Nunes's district and take dozens of jobs with him.
The document obtained by The Post offers the most detailed picture yet
of a widening inquiry into the relationships between lawmakers and
PMA, a lobbying firm founded by Paul Magliocchetti that has been under
criminal investigation by the Justice Department. A year ago, the FBI
raided PMA's offices and carted away boxes of records dealing with its
political donations and the firm's efforts to win congressionally
directed funds, known as "earmarks," for clients.
The document shows that both the ethics committee and the Office of
Congressional Ethics are looking into the matter. The OCE investigates
and makes recommendations to the House ethics committee, which has the
power to subpoena and sanction lawmakers. Internal ethics
investigations of members of Congress are normally confidential, but
The Post learned details of their work through the document, which
became available on a file-sharing network.
Under the description of the OCE inquiry, the document says
investigators are looking at House members who may have been
"accepting contributions or other items of value from PMA's PAC in
exchange for an official act." A Hill source cautioned that the ethics
committee has not gathered a significant amount of material and has
not zeroed in on specific lawmakers.
$200 million in earmarks
Together, the seven legislators have personally steered more than $200
million in earmarks to clients of the PMA Group in the past two years,
and received more than $6.2 million in campaign contributions from PMA
and its clients in the past decade, according to an analysis by
Congressional Quarterly and Taxpayers for Common Sense.
The Post reviewed earmark and campaign records and found that the
seven had each supported funding for PMA clients and also received
donations. Young has recently received very little from PMA.
Under some political pressure, the House ethics committee disclosed in
June that it had an ongoing investigation into this matter. The move
came days after the FBI subpoenaed Visclosky's office for records
relating to PMA and as other House members called for the ethics
committee to act. The committee did not disclose the members it was
scrutinizing then, and the specific details of the OCE's work have not
been publicly known.
While lawmakers received generous contributions, PMA used its growing
influence with the panel over the past decade to become one of the top
10 lobby shops in Washington and took in $114 million in lobbying
fees, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog
group.
The chairman of the House ethics committee, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-
Calif.), initially declined to verify that the document The Post
obtained was generated by the ethics committee. Late Thursday, she
issued a statement explaining how it had been accidentally released by
a low-level staffer through a file-sharing network. She declined to
discuss the PMA probe and said many lawmakers may be under review by
the committee at any point in time.
"No inference to any misconduct can be made from the fact that a
matter is simply before the Committee," she said in her statement.
The OCE has interviewed some of the lawmakers, including Kaptur last
week and Moran a few weeks ago. It has invited others in for
interviews, such as Visclosky, and posed numerous questions to the
members' staff.
Moran, a senior member of the defense panel whose former top aide went
to work for the PMA Group, said he recently sat for a lengthy
interview with two aides from the OCE. He said he asked the new ethics
office to interview all of his current and former staff members,
including his former chief of staff who became a PMA lobbyist, Melissa
Koloszar.
"I said they should be interviewed separately, privately and
completely," he said. "We wanted them to investigate."
Two investigations
Several Hill staffers said they are confused by what appears to be a
dual track, with the OCE and the ethics committee simultaneously
pursuing similar questions.
Kaptur's spokesman said her office does not understand the duplication
but is happy to answer all questions. "The congresswoman has always
emphasized openness and transparency, and it almost goes without
saying she will continue to cooperate with the OCE and, if it goes to
the [ethics committee], with that committee as well," said Kaptur
spokesman Steve Fought. "She has nothing to hide."
Murtha's office declined to comment. The offices and representatives
of Dicks, Visclosky, Young and Tiahart did not respond to questions
about the scrutiny.
As the ethics committee began gathering evidence this summer about
PMA's operating methods on Capitol Hill, it contacted the office of
Nunes, who had earlier complained to the committee about a lobbyist's
aggressiveness in seeking an earmark. Nunes agreed to comment on the
incident when The Post asked him about detailed information it had
obtained about his complaint.
"I didn't appreciate being threatened," Nunes said. "To me, it was a
symptom of the disease we have in Congress, where a lot of members
have simply gotten addicted to contributions from companies that are
getting their earmarks."
Don Fleming, the PMA lobbyist who allegedly threatened Nunes, is now
at Flagship Government Relations, a firm started by several departed
PMA lobbyists. Fleming did not confirm the encounter, but he said in a
statement Thursday that "an important responsibility of any government
relations professional is to communicate to policymakers the impact
that their decisions have on our clients." He added that he has
"always adhered to the strictest code of professional ethics."
Moran said he continued to believe that Magliocchetti was a good
lobbyist who knew that he had to get Defense Department backing for
the earmarks he was seeking from Capitol Hill. Describing him as "the
only Democratic defense [lobbyist] for the most part," Moran said
Magliocchetti also was someone Democrats naturally turned to for
fundraising help from the military contractor community.
"When you needed to raise money for the Democratic campaign committee,
he was always the first one you went to," Moran said, adding, "I don't
know how he raised his money."
Moran hosted an event for the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee in his Alexandria home last year, the lawmaker said, with
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as the guest of honor.
Magliocchetti and some of his clients were in attendance, writing
checks for $28,500 each, Moran said.
Staff writers Paul Kane and Ellen Nakashima and research editor Alice
Crites contributed to this report.
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