Tons of cash in Iraq kicked around like footballs in Iraq and Paul Bremer still walks a free man with a Presidential Freedom Medal.
February 8, 2007 -- As a follow-up to yesterday's story regarding the Schmitz family's connections to the Bush administration, a former high-level Pentagon financial official informed WMR that L. Jean Lewis, the former Kansas City Resolution Trust Corporation official who leveled unsubstantiated charges against Bill and Hillary Clinton over Whitewater, was not only Chief of Staff for Joseph Schmitz in the Department of Defense Inspector General's office but also maintained an office in the White House. Schmitz is now General Counsel for the Prince Group, the parent company of Blackwater USA.
Lewis was found to have orchestrated the Whitewater charges against the Clintons and before she could be charged with perjury before the Select Senate and House Committees on Whitewater, Lewis was provided special protection by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Lewis told FBI agent Steve Irons in August 1992 that she could "alter history" by making a criminal referral on the Clintons and Madison Guaranty prior to the 1992 election. FBI agents in the Little Rock FBI office contended that Lewis lied to the Senate Committee in denying she said she could alter history by helping to defeat Clinton. Lewis later marketed t-shirts emblazoned with "B.I.T.C.H." ("Boys, I'm taking charge, Hillary" and "Bubba, I've taken charge, Hillary') but she continued to maintain to Congress that her attempt to bring a criminal referral against the Clintons had anything to do with politics.
In 1995, Lewis fainted while testifying before the Senate Select Committee when Democrats read a latter from Charles Banks, the Republican U.S. Attorney in Little Rock, stating that Lewis' motivations against the Clintons were political. The letter stated, ""The insistence for urgency in this case [Lewis' criminal referral] appears to suggest an intentional or unintentional attempt to intervene into the political process of the upcoming presidential election."
Blackwater is under investigation by Chairman Henry Waxman's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for being improperly awarded a $20 million security subcontract by Halliburton. The Army later forced Halliburton to return the money but after Tina Ballard, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Policy and Procurement denied that Blackwater was doing security work for Halliburton. On February 7, Ballard reversed herself and admitted that Blackwater performed security subcontract work for Halliburton. The Halliburton/Blackwater malfeasance occurred when Schmitz and Lewis were acting in tandem in the Pentagon's Inspector General's office to cover up major contract fraud involving Halliburton, Blackwater, and dozens of other firms, including "private military companies," otherwise known as mercenaries.
Tons of cash in Iraq kicked around like footballs in Iraq and Paul Bremer still walks a free man with a Presidential Freedom Medal.
The Blackwater/Halliburton revelations came after L. Paul Bremer, the former U.S. viceroy admitted that $9 billion in cash drawn from the vaults of the U.S. Federal Reserve and sent to his Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) went missing, in part, because "ghost employees" had to be paid to "keep the peace." There were 363 tons of cash on 484 pallets that could fill 17 semi-trailers. Although Bremer and Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector for Iraqi Reconstruction, maintained that the "ghost employees" were Iraqis, Custer Battles, the GOP-linked firm that has been under investigation for fraud, secretly shipped $12 million in cash to Beirut on what was called its "Flying Carpet Airline." CPA official Frank Willis stated that there was so much cash at the CPA, Americans were "playing football" with it.
Wayne Madsen Report
Lewis was found to have orchestrated the Whitewater charges against the Clintons and before she could be charged with perjury before the Select Senate and House Committees on Whitewater, Lewis was provided special protection by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Lewis told FBI agent Steve Irons in August 1992 that she could "alter history" by making a criminal referral on the Clintons and Madison Guaranty prior to the 1992 election. FBI agents in the Little Rock FBI office contended that Lewis lied to the Senate Committee in denying she said she could alter history by helping to defeat Clinton. Lewis later marketed t-shirts emblazoned with "B.I.T.C.H." ("Boys, I'm taking charge, Hillary" and "Bubba, I've taken charge, Hillary') but she continued to maintain to Congress that her attempt to bring a criminal referral against the Clintons had anything to do with politics.
In 1995, Lewis fainted while testifying before the Senate Select Committee when Democrats read a latter from Charles Banks, the Republican U.S. Attorney in Little Rock, stating that Lewis' motivations against the Clintons were political. The letter stated, ""The insistence for urgency in this case [Lewis' criminal referral] appears to suggest an intentional or unintentional attempt to intervene into the political process of the upcoming presidential election."
Blackwater is under investigation by Chairman Henry Waxman's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for being improperly awarded a $20 million security subcontract by Halliburton. The Army later forced Halliburton to return the money but after Tina Ballard, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Policy and Procurement denied that Blackwater was doing security work for Halliburton. On February 7, Ballard reversed herself and admitted that Blackwater performed security subcontract work for Halliburton. The Halliburton/Blackwater malfeasance occurred when Schmitz and Lewis were acting in tandem in the Pentagon's Inspector General's office to cover up major contract fraud involving Halliburton, Blackwater, and dozens of other firms, including "private military companies," otherwise known as mercenaries.
Tons of cash in Iraq kicked around like footballs in Iraq and Paul Bremer still walks a free man with a Presidential Freedom Medal.
The Blackwater/Halliburton revelations came after L. Paul Bremer, the former U.S. viceroy admitted that $9 billion in cash drawn from the vaults of the U.S. Federal Reserve and sent to his Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) went missing, in part, because "ghost employees" had to be paid to "keep the peace." There were 363 tons of cash on 484 pallets that could fill 17 semi-trailers. Although Bremer and Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector for Iraqi Reconstruction, maintained that the "ghost employees" were Iraqis, Custer Battles, the GOP-linked firm that has been under investigation for fraud, secretly shipped $12 million in cash to Beirut on what was called its "Flying Carpet Airline." CPA official Frank Willis stated that there was so much cash at the CPA, Americans were "playing football" with it.
Wayne Madsen Report
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