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20080630
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McCain -  Tom
Loeffler -  Susan
E Nelson - Gordon
England -  EADS
-  European
-  Military
-  Aircraft
-  Manufacturing
-  Politics
-  Government
-  Auditors
-  US
- 2008
Election
"McCain’s
Boeing Battle Boomerangs." ... "Government auditors
ruled that the Air Force made "significant errors" when it rebid the [aerial
refueling tanker] contract and awarded the $35 billion project to Boeing's
chief rival, partners European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. [Company]
(or EADS) and Northrop Grumman. It's likely the Air Force will have to
redo the bid yet again, which analysts say will delay the replacement of
the fleet's 1950s-era refueling tankers. The auditors' ruling has also
cast light on an overlooked aspect of [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate John] McCain's crusade: five of his campaign's top advisers and
fund-raisers—including Tom Loeffler, who resigned last month as his finance
co-chairman, and Susan Nelson, his finance director—were registered lobbyists
for EADS." ... "Critics, including some at the Pentagon, cite in particular
two tough letters McCain wrote to Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England
in 2006 and another to Robert Gates, just prior to his confirmation as
Defense secretary. In the first letter, dated [September] Sept. 8, 2006,
McCain wrote of hearing from "third parties" that the Air Force was about
to redo the tanker competition by factoring in European government subsidies
to EADS—a condition that could have seriously hurt the EADS bid. McCain
urged that the Pentagon drop the subsidy factor and posed a series of technical
questions about the Air Force's process. "He was trying to jam us and bully
us to make sure there was competition by giving EADS an advantage," said
one senior Pentagon official, who asked for anonymity when discussing a
politically sensitive matter. The assumption within the Pentagon, the official
added, was that McCain's letters were drafted by EADS lobbyists. "There
was no one else that would have had that level of detail," the official
said." -By Michael Isikoff
-Newsweek
20080328
Gordon
England - Secret
- Military
-  Law
-  Terrorism
- Politics
- 2008
Election - 2006
Election - Osama
bin Laden
- War
Crimes - US
- Guantánamo
- Cuba
-  Intelligence
- Torture
- Prison
-  Michael
V Hayden
"Navy
Lawyer: Gitmo trials pegged to political campaign."
... "The Navy lawyer for Osama bin Laden's driver argues in a Guantánamo
[Guantánamo Bay, Cuba] military commissions motion that senior Pentagon
officials are orchestrating war crimes prosecutions for the 2008 [Election]
campaign." ... "The brief filed Thursday by Navy [Lieutenant Commander]
Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer directly challenged the integrity of [Republican]
President Bush's war court." ... "Notably, it describes a [September] Sept.
29, 2006, meeting at the Pentagon in which Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon
England, a veteran [Republican President Bush] White House appointee, asked
lawyers to consider Sept. 11, 2001, prosecutions in light of the campaign
[2006 Election ]." ... "''We need to think about charging some of the high-value
detainees because there could be strategic political value to charging
some of these detainees before the election,'' England is quoted as saying."
... "The brief quotes England as a stipulation of fact and cites other
examples of alleged political interference, which Mizer argues makes it
impossible for Salim Hamdan, 37, to have a fair trial." ... "It asks the
judge, Navy [Captain] Capt. Keith Allred, to dismiss the case against Hamdan
as an alleged 9/11 co-conspirator on the grounds that Bush administration
leadership exercises ``unlawful command influence.''" ... "As described
the Hamdan brief, the England meeting came three weeks after President
Bush disclosed in a live address that he had ordered the CIA [Central Intelligence
Agency] to transfer ''high-value detainees'' from years of secret custody
to Guantánamo for trial." ... "Bush also disclosed that the CIA
used ''an alternative set of procedures'' to interrogate the men into confessing
-- since revealed by the CIA director, Air Force [General] Gen. Michael
V. Hayden, to include waterboarding." -By Carol Rosenberg
-MiamiHerald
20060104
Gordon
R England -  Trent
Lott -  Hans
von Spakovsky - Military
- Government
-  Corporation
- Lawyer
- Election
-  Media
- Terrorism
-  Network
- Manufacturing
-  Maine
-  Miss
-  Mich
-  Ga
"Bush
bypasses Senate to install new deputy defense secretary."
... "[Republican] President Bush on Wednesday bypassed the Senate to install
former Navy Secretary Gordon R. England as deputy secretary of defense,
and used a similar maneuver to name a new Pentagon spokesman, campaign
finance regulators and Amtrak directors." ... "Bush also used this maneuver
Wednesday to name Dorrance Smith, a former ABC News producer, as assistant
secretary of defense for public affairs. That job has gone unfilled since
Victoria Clarke quit the post in June 2003. Lawrence Di Rita, an aide close
to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, was the interim spokesman." ...
"Bush had nominated England to be Rumsfeld's top deputy last April. [Republican
Senators] Sens. Olympia Snowe, R[Republican]-Maine, and Trent Lott, R-Miss.
[Republican-Mississippi], had placed holds on the appointment, preventing
the Senate from considering it. At issue were shipbuilding concerns and
conflict-of-interest questions surrounding pensions England holds from
defense companies." ... "[Michigan Democratic Senator] Sen. Carl Levin,
D-Mich. [Democratic-Michigan], had held up Smith's nomination in a dispute
over a newspaper opinion article in which he accused [United States] U.S.
television networks of helping terrorists through their partnerships with
Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera." ... "Before joining the Bush administration
in 2001, England was an executive at General Dynamics Corp." ... "At the
Federal Election Commission, Bush appointed Hans von Spakovsky, a Justice
Department lawyer who formerly was Republican Party chairman in Fulton
County, Ga. [Georgia.]" -AP
via -BostonGlobe
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