Reply #10: Yes, Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA), former head of the Approp. Comm, who

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handed out millions in goodies to other GOP Congressmen through his leadership PAC. That money was provided primarily by a giant, corrupt Israeli-based hedge fund, Cerberus-Gabriel, which operated several defense U.S. contractors as cash-cows, with MZM and ADCS as junior partners in a huge bribery and kickback scheme. See, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x377023

The Greeks were also in on the act. This item from the Copley article:

"For the first time, investigators shed light on what Kontogiannis expected to get from Cunningham – help on a potential sale of fighter jets to his native Greece."

This isn't just about corruption, it's about wholesale foreign influence peddling with the GOP and falsification of intelligence. Privatization has allowed Cheney and his gang to replace the career CIA with private intelligence contractors, such as MZM and ADCS, and false intel has supported BushCo's push to sustain an endless series of Long Wars in the Middle East.

When CIA Counter-Proliferation Division (which had Valerie Plame as a manager) refused to confirm Bush-Cheney's unfounded assertions that Iraq was attempting to acquire Niger Yellowcake and importing aluminum tubes to build uranium enrichment centrifuges, the White House turned to Wade's MZM and Wilke's ADCS to produce false intel estimates. The CIA officer who headed the mission to Jordan to check out the aluminum tubes was Valerie Plame. The CIA asset who traveled to Niger to check out the yellowcake story in 1999 (following a visit by AQ Khan) and then again in 2002 was Ambassador Wilson.

The outing of Plame, which followed Richard Armitage's 06/01/01 outing of Khan's network, that had been penetrated by CIA-CPD, was all about destroying the career CIA so as to pave the way for military action against the so-called "Axis of Evil" countries. See, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/8/14653/71820