Reply #66: Getting beyond the "weirdness": funds that were supposed to help wounded troops get "lost"

[bobthedrummer]

and may have wound up in the hands of private venture capitalists with direct and indirect ties to the Bush administration, the Project for a New American Century, former Defense Policy Board members, and even weirder connections both here and abroad.

IAP is only part of the tip of an iceberg that leads to corruption on a scale almost beyond belief.

It is certainly beyond my limited technical skills, that's why the contributors to this thread are so vital.

One example of this weirdness was noted several times up thread-the purchase of Ehud Olmert's house by Daniel Abrams (and we aren't going off-topic here, the complexity of the movement of money that was supposed to provide for the care and treatment of US military at Walter Reed and elsewhere is related to many seemingly isolated events).

Daniel Abrams worked for many years at PepsiCo (PepsiCo=Donald M. Kendall-he was a great friend of Nixon and Kissinger, he even got a coup in Chile that benefited his profits).

Mr. Abrams made some career moves and was the financial director for Xenova Group PLC. Xenova is a company that could have products and services useful to outpatients as this SEC document attests.
http://www.secinfo.com/d13XCc.15z.d.htm

Mr. Abrams left Xenova Group PLC and was appointed Chief Financial Officer of UK based Cambridge Display Technology/CDT in September 2005.

CDT is very involved in organic semiconductors and the US Army provides a lot of funding into this industry through the US Display Consortium/USDC as this Organics Electronics Conference website details.
http://www.oec-europe.com/persp_overview.htm

Cambridge Display Technology was acquired by others, including Hillman Capital and Kelso & Co.

Hillman Capital's Gerald P. Hillman once was a big part of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, especially in the lead up to the Iraq war, which was a war of choice.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=90&sid=200

The Chairman of the Defense Policy Board at that time was Richard Perle who formed a venture capital group with Henry Kissinger and Gerald P. Hillman called Trireme Partners.

Don't forget that Kissinger Associates is heavily involved with IAP, as noted numerous times up thread.

Antiwar.com's Justin Raimondo did an excellent job of tracking some of this "weirdness" and I found an article that connects much of this together (including that venture capital financial guy Mr. Daniel Abrams that wanted to discuss purchasing Israel's second largest bank with then Israel's financial official Olmert but wound up buying his house; as well as some details about Hillman Capital and Kelso).

From April 15, 2005 here is Raimondo's article
"Cashing in on the Bush Doctrine"
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5562

Btw, antiwar.com published an article today by Rep. Ron Paul
"The Scandal at Walter Reed"
http://antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=10642

Whoever can add to what this "weirdness" is about based on what we've been researching for a few days now please do so. The people and organizations that put their financial health above the dead and wounded-that was so aptly stated by the Decider when he said "money trumps peace" have names and histories and all kinds of connections that need transparency now.

And they must be held accountable for their crimes.

Thanks to all so far-let's keep this DU investigation thread going over the weekend.

on edit: Fair use cited for all links