Bush-Rumsfeld Pal Selling Out to the Commies

[subgenius]

Perle, one of George W. Bush's foreign policy advisers during the 2000 presidential campaign, was hired last week by the bankrupt Global Crossing telecommunications company to help it restructure a deal to sell a majority holding in the company to Hutchison Telecommunications and government-run Singapore Technologies Telemedia. The United States government -- particularly the Defense Department and the FBI -- has national security concerns about the deal, according to The New York Times. It would put Global Crossing's fiber optics network -- which the military uses -- under Chinese ownership.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030327-071406-2705r

The joys of capitalism.:eek:
Can you say hypocrite?

[subgenius]

According to The New York Times, Perle signed a March 7 affidavit that was to be filed with the bankruptcy court.

That stated, "As the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, I have a unique perspective on and intimate knowledge of the national defense and security issues that will be raised by the (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) review process that is not and could not be available to the other CFIUS professionals."

Perle stated Thursday, "This language was wrong. The (Defense Policy Board) does not deal with these issues and my position could not possibly enhance my knowledge or perspective. Accordingly, I revised (the lawyer's) draft to delete the sentence. Because of a clerical error the reference was only deleted from one page but appeared on another. Thinking that all the necessary deletions were made I signed the affidavit. The document was not filed with the court."

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030327-071406-2705r

Funny how they're so unforgiving and strict with everyone else.

[subgenius]

As a campaign adviser, he suggested in 2000 to a Senate committee that Bush would oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he were elected.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030327-071406-2705r

In case you were still in denial about whether the war was pre-determined.

[a_unique_person]

doesn't look good, sub, replying twice to your own thread. but i think this fits in well with the thread i started about the russians and isrealis getting together to sell attack helicopters to the turks.

if there is one thing that rules supreme, it is the almighty dollar, and don't you forget it.

makes you wonder how much we are stuck in a 1984 time warp.

[corplinx]

Originally posted by subgenius
Can you say hypocrite?

Perhaps, I would rather see what Perle himself has to say and see more on this story. He himself was rabidly anti-communist during the 80s so I am skeptical of him making a move to give China a tactical advantage over the west.

[subgenius]

Like I said when my wife burst in on me and another woman, "Who you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

[subgenius]

Oh there's more:

Adviser to U.S. Aided Maker of Satellites
By STEPHEN LABATON


WASHINGTON, March 28 — While he led an influential Pentagon advisory board, Richard N. Perle advised a major American satellite maker, Loral Space and Communications, as it faced government accusations that it improperly transferred rocket technology to China, administration officials said today.

Officials at the State Department said that the senior official considering how to resolve the rocket matter, Assistant Secretary Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr., was contacted by Mr. Perle once or twice in the second half of 2001 on behalf of the company. At the time, Mr. Bloomfield, who heads the State Department's bureau of political-military affairs, and other officials were investigating accusations that Loral turned over expertise that significantly improved the reliability of China's nuclear missiles.
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The Loral matter is the second instance in which Mr. Perle was doing business on behalf of an American company encountering government difficulties over ties to China. Mr. Perle had been retained by Global Crossing, the communications giant, to overcome Defense Department opposition to its proposal to be sold to a venture led by Hutchison Whampoa, the conglomerate controlled by the Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/business/29PERL.html?ex=1049605200&en=d45c82aabd98171f&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[Pyrrho]

Perle gets $125,000 for his influence regardless of the outcome.