The Los Angeles Times reports on a happy conjunction of patriotism and profiteering. Happy for the profiteers, that is. Not so happy for our soldiers in Iraq.
A Confluence of Public and Private Interest Over Iraq Los Angeles Times online 07/13/04
Former CIA director R. James Woolsey is a prominent example of the phenomenon, mixing his business interests with what he contends are the country's strategic interests. He left the CIA in 1995, but he remains a senior government advisor on intelligence and national security issues, including Iraq. Meantime, he works for two private companies that do business in Iraq and is a partner in a company that invests in businesses that provide security and anti-terrorism services.
Woolsey said in an interview that he was not directly involved with the companies' Iraq-related ventures. But as a vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm, he was a featured speaker in May 2003 at a conference co-sponsored by the company at which some 80 corporate executives and others paid up to $1,100 to hear about the economic outlook and business opportunities in Iraq.
Before the war, Woolsey was a founding member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, an organization set up in 2002 at the request of the White House to help build public backing for war in Iraq. He also wrote about a need for regime change and sat on the CIA advisory board and the Defense Policy Board, whose unpaid members have provided advice on Iraq and other matters to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
For the Bush Dynasty, this is a just a routine way of doing "bitness."
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