Israel's "second UN Mission" in Manhattan (left) and Purdy (right): Makes more than his boss through clever (but illegal) contracting procedures.
July 1, 2006 -- Two pompous and rude Bush administration officials float to the surface of the Bush-Cheney cesspool of malfeasance. Informed sources have reported to WMR the presence of two rather pompous and disagreeable individuals in senior positions of the Bush administration. The officials, one who serves at the US Mission to the UN and the other at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), have adversely affected the morale of the US Mission to the UN/UN press corps and the National Cyber-Security Division at DHS/Carnegie-Mellon University, respectively.
Richard Grennell, the press spokesman for unconfirmed Ambassador John Bolton at the UN, has reportedly told one accredited UN journalist to "zip it," after Bolton was peppered with penetrating questions at a news conference. Grennell, who is considered a member of the U.S. "Diplomatic" Corps, has also been rude and abrupt with a number of other journalists assigned to cover the UN as well as UN staff members. Grennell also served as press spokesman for Bolton's predecessor, John Negroponte. Although Bolton has failed to support gay rights initiatives at the UN, BlogActive.com and Gay City News have reported that Grennell is gay. WMR has also learned from informed UN sources that Grennell's "partner" is a reporter for the neo-con funded and American Enterprise Institute-linked New York Sun, a paper that strictly follows the pro-Israeli line maintained by Bolton and his UN Mission staff. Under Bolton, the US Mission to the UN has been transformed into a virtual second Israeli UN diplomatic mission in Manhattan, according to UN sources.
Grennell was a significant critic of Secretary General Kofi Annan and Dr. Hans Blix and his UN weapons inspection team in Iraq. WMR has reported the reluctance of the Bush administration to allow UN weapons inspector into post-Saddam Iraq was the possibility that they would find evidence that the Reagan and Bush I administrations supplied WMDs to Iraq and that U.S. and British troops were acting as what one veteran US Army counter-intelligence agent in Iraq termed "a janitorial clean-up service."
Government officials and staff at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh are questioning the salary and employment arrangement given to DHS's National Cyber-Security Division acting chief, Donald "Andy" Purdy, Jr. Under a two-year contract, Purdy, who is an attorney and Washington, DC insider, earns a $577,000 salary, more than that earned by his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Purdy is on loan from Carnegie-Mellon to DHS. It is noteworthy that the National Cyber-Security Division pays out annually $19 million to Carnegie-Mellon, Purdy's permanent employer, in contracts. Since the Cyber-Security Division chief's official salary is much less than what Purdy makes at Carnegie-Mellon, DHS is paying Purdy's higher salary through the existing contract between DHS and the university. Carnegie-Mellon sources, who claim Purdy is pompous and disagreeable, have reported the salary/contract deal worked out between him and the government is a clear violation of Federal Acquisition Regulations. Last year, Purdy replaced Amit Yoran as chief of the National Cyber-Security Division.
In May, WMR previously reported on a possible scandal involving Yoran at the CIA venture capital firm, IN-Q-TEL. "Suspicions about IN-Q-TEL were raised in late April when its 35-year-old CEO, Amit Yoran, abruptly resigned to "spend more time with his family." Yoran, an Israeli-American, had been on the job for just four months after he succeeded IN-Q-TEL's first CEO, Gilman Louie, a well-known Silicon Valley investor and technical guru. Before taking over IN-Q-TEL, Yoran was the director of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security. Under Yoran, IN-Q-TEL's operating budget increased exponentially and the firm began negotiating with various high-tech firms to develop deep data mining programs and spy technology. Yoran's rumored successor was said to be Mark Frantz, who Yoran brought from The Carlyle Group to be IN-Q-TEL's managing general partner and board of trustees member. Frantz worked for George H. W. Bush and held a senior position with Alex Brown, later merged with Deutsche Bank, the firm where the CIA's former Executive Director, A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard served as Chairman. IN-Q-TEL's board of trustees chairman is Lee A. Ault III of Delray Beach, Florida, who also serves on the board of Office Depot."
Israel's "second UN Mission" in Manhattan (left) and Purdy (right): Makes more than his boss through clever (but illegal) contracting procedures.
WayneMadsenReport
Richard Grennell, the press spokesman for unconfirmed Ambassador John Bolton at the UN, has reportedly told one accredited UN journalist to "zip it," after Bolton was peppered with penetrating questions at a news conference. Grennell, who is considered a member of the U.S. "Diplomatic" Corps, has also been rude and abrupt with a number of other journalists assigned to cover the UN as well as UN staff members. Grennell also served as press spokesman for Bolton's predecessor, John Negroponte. Although Bolton has failed to support gay rights initiatives at the UN, BlogActive.com and Gay City News have reported that Grennell is gay. WMR has also learned from informed UN sources that Grennell's "partner" is a reporter for the neo-con funded and American Enterprise Institute-linked New York Sun, a paper that strictly follows the pro-Israeli line maintained by Bolton and his UN Mission staff. Under Bolton, the US Mission to the UN has been transformed into a virtual second Israeli UN diplomatic mission in Manhattan, according to UN sources.
Grennell was a significant critic of Secretary General Kofi Annan and Dr. Hans Blix and his UN weapons inspection team in Iraq. WMR has reported the reluctance of the Bush administration to allow UN weapons inspector into post-Saddam Iraq was the possibility that they would find evidence that the Reagan and Bush I administrations supplied WMDs to Iraq and that U.S. and British troops were acting as what one veteran US Army counter-intelligence agent in Iraq termed "a janitorial clean-up service."
Government officials and staff at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh are questioning the salary and employment arrangement given to DHS's National Cyber-Security Division acting chief, Donald "Andy" Purdy, Jr. Under a two-year contract, Purdy, who is an attorney and Washington, DC insider, earns a $577,000 salary, more than that earned by his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Purdy is on loan from Carnegie-Mellon to DHS. It is noteworthy that the National Cyber-Security Division pays out annually $19 million to Carnegie-Mellon, Purdy's permanent employer, in contracts. Since the Cyber-Security Division chief's official salary is much less than what Purdy makes at Carnegie-Mellon, DHS is paying Purdy's higher salary through the existing contract between DHS and the university. Carnegie-Mellon sources, who claim Purdy is pompous and disagreeable, have reported the salary/contract deal worked out between him and the government is a clear violation of Federal Acquisition Regulations. Last year, Purdy replaced Amit Yoran as chief of the National Cyber-Security Division.
In May, WMR previously reported on a possible scandal involving Yoran at the CIA venture capital firm, IN-Q-TEL. "Suspicions about IN-Q-TEL were raised in late April when its 35-year-old CEO, Amit Yoran, abruptly resigned to "spend more time with his family." Yoran, an Israeli-American, had been on the job for just four months after he succeeded IN-Q-TEL's first CEO, Gilman Louie, a well-known Silicon Valley investor and technical guru. Before taking over IN-Q-TEL, Yoran was the director of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security. Under Yoran, IN-Q-TEL's operating budget increased exponentially and the firm began negotiating with various high-tech firms to develop deep data mining programs and spy technology. Yoran's rumored successor was said to be Mark Frantz, who Yoran brought from The Carlyle Group to be IN-Q-TEL's managing general partner and board of trustees member. Frantz worked for George H. W. Bush and held a senior position with Alex Brown, later merged with Deutsche Bank, the firm where the CIA's former Executive Director, A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard served as Chairman. IN-Q-TEL's board of trustees chairman is Lee A. Ault III of Delray Beach, Florida, who also serves on the board of Office Depot."
Israel's "second UN Mission" in Manhattan (left) and Purdy (right): Makes more than his boss through clever (but illegal) contracting procedures.
WayneMadsenReport
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