GOPer)Pentagon Deputy's Probes in Iraq Weren't Authorized(business corrupt

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-probe7jul07.story


Pentagon Deputy's Probes in Iraq Weren't Authorized
By T. Christian Miller Times Staff Writer

July 7, 2004

WASHINGTON — A senior Defense Department official conducted unauthorized investigations of Iraq reconstruction efforts and used their results to push for lucrative contracts for friends and their business clients, according to current and former Pentagon officials and documents.

John A. "Jack" Shaw, deputy undersecretary for international technology security, represented himself as an agent of the Pentagon's inspector general in conducting the investigations, sources said.<snip>

In both cases, Shaw urged government officials to fix the alleged problems by directing multimillion-dollar contracts to companies linked to his friends, without competitive bidding, according to the Pentagon sources and documents. In the case of the port, the clients of a lobbyist friend won a no-bid contract for dredging.

Shaw's actions are the latest to raise concerns that senior Republican officials working in Washington and Iraq have used the rebuilding effort in Iraq to reward associates and political allies. One of Shaw's close friends, the former top U.S. transportation official in Iraq, is under investigation for his role in promoting an Iraqi national airline with a company linked to the Saddam Hussein regime.<snip>

[Dhalgren]

1. What did they expect from a bunch of greed-sack

Republicans? If you put a fox in charge of the hen house...well, you get the idea.

[Dhalgren]

2. Dup - oops!

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=669282