WB: Sex Pistols – Moon of Alabama

April 28, 2006

WB: Sex Pistols

Billmon:

Justin Rood at TPM is the one who connects the dots and decides they spell G-O-S-S.

It’s only an educated guess — but also a reasonable one, given that Brent Wilkes and Mitchell Wade, the two contractors involved, were manuevering to stick their dicks in the intelligence community’s contracting honeypot as well as the Pentagon’s. Goss’s previous jobs as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and vice chairman of the low-key but powerful House Rules Committee (which controls the flow of legislation to the floor) obviously would have made him an extremely attractive piece of bowel material to a couple of intestinal parasites like Wilkes and Wade.

Sex Pistols

Posted by b on April 28, 2006 at 08:20 UTC | Permalink

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For a tall glass of Regis, I hereby promise to use the epithet Porter (kennedy assassination) Goss from now on.
Anybody buying? Or is the bar dead as the sax and jazz piano on a april 2006 dark street in new orleans?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Apr 28 2006 9:05 utc | 1

The General is on to this one too. I was thinking more like Porter playing Victor, the Sydney Pollack character in Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut. A pimp of a higher order, as it were.

Posted by: anna missed | Apr 28 2006 9:25 utc | 2

Or maybe —- The Night PORTER —-

Posted by: anna missed | Apr 28 2006 9:31 utc | 3

Whats the difference in a war pig and a Whore Pig? I say there is none.
Annie asked about frogs , ducks, and chickens, billmon wrote about pigs, but left out the dogs and sheep. I think it’s safe to say we are really all talking about the same kind of Animals.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Apr 28 2006 10:10 utc | 4

Oh, and (remember Johnny Rotten’s “I Hate Pink Floyd” T-shirt?) his was the real Sex Pistol.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Apr 28 2006 10:29 utc | 5

More Goss anyone?
As you read through some things you may want to pay attention to sush interesting details as Operation 40.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Apr 28 2006 11:49 utc | 6

or what passes for reality here in the long, sad twilight of the American republic.
Morris Berman says we’re already in the Dark Ages!

Posted by: nobody important | Apr 28 2006 12:02 utc | 7

via Laura Rozen the San Diego Union Trib

Several of Wilkes’ former employees and business associates say he used the hospitality suites over the past 15 years to curry favor with lawmakers as well as officials with the CIA, where both Wilkes and Wade sought contracts.
Wilkes hosted parties for lawmakers and periodic poker games that included CIA officials as well as members of the House Appropriations and Intelligence committees. Cunningham, who sat on both committees, was a frequent guest, according to some of the participants in the poker games.
People who were present at the games said one of the regular players was Kyle Dustin “Dusty” Foggo, who has been Wilkes’ best friend since the two attended junior high school in Chula Vista in the late 1960s. In October, Foggo was named the CIA’s executive director – the agency’s third-highest position.
Another player was a CIA agent known as “Nine Fingers,” so named because he lost one of his digits while on assignment.
“I remember big spreads of food and alcohol, but mostly cigars,” said former Rep. Charlie Wilson of Texas, who attended a couple of the poker parties during the 1990s.
Wilson said nearly all the poker players at the two games he attended were CIA officials, including Foggo and Nine Fingers. He said there were no women or other lawmakers present, but added that he had to leave the games early “because the cigar smoke was too thick, and I don’t deal well with that.”
Foggo, who occasionally hosted the poker parties at his house in northern Virginia, is under investigation by the CIA’s inspector general to determine whether he helped Wilkes gain CIA contracts.

Laura adds

So was the Wilkes-Foggo relationship purely social? A person in the lobbying business told me the other day that on a visit to Wilkes’s offices while in San Diego, Wilkes pointed to a room in his ADCS Poway headquarters as “Dusty’s playpen” full of the technological gizmos he apparently loves. And according to another source, Wilkes was in discussions to get a very large contract from the Agency: as I have previously reported, to set up an off-the-books plane network. “There were several more opportunities on the board when the federal investigation came down on Wilkes,” a source indicates. “Opportunities worth much more than the $5M or $10 million/year deals Wilkes was used to. The FBI probably knows about these from the raids they conducted, but I wonder if they have shared that information with the CIA.” The alleged amount of the contract under negotiation? Close to $300 million, I’ve heard.

Posted by: b | Apr 28 2006 13:29 utc | 8

This story will be fun for a LONG time. Harpers

It gets even more interesting: the man who has been identified as the CEO of Shirlington has a 62-page rap sheet (I recently obtained a copy) that runs from at least 1979 through 1989 and lists charges of petit larceny, robbery, receiving stolen goods, assault, and more. Curiously—or perhaps not so curiously given the company’s connections—Shirlington Limousine is also a Department of Homeland Security contractor; according to the Washington Post, last fall it won a $21.2 million contract for shuttle services and transportation support. (I tried to contact Shirlington but was unable to get past their answering service.)
As to the festivities themselves, I hear that party nights began early with poker games and degenerated into what the source described as a “frat party” scene—real bacchanals. Apparently photographs were taken, and investigators are anxiously procuring copies.

Photographs = blackmail
Is there a connection to some foreign service? That would interesting.

Posted by: b | Apr 28 2006 13:40 utc | 9

Another Bush Family Scandal

For most people, Page County, in the Shenandoah Valley, is a lovely and tranquil place. For others, Page County is a criminal profit center, humming with illegal activity. As a result of this illegal activity, George Bush’s favorite brother is owed $34 million by the residents of Page County. And so far he’s getting his money, every damn penny of it.
Marvin Bush is partner and co-founder of the venture capital firm, Winston Partners, out of McLean, Virginia. Marvin’s company purchased Tellurian, the Page County’s waste management and landfill operator.
In Page County, companies like Tellurian were symbolized by the 18-wheelers that arrived around the clock laden with high-value garbage from out-of-state.
The permit for the Battle Creek landfill allows for 250 tons of garbage per day. The expected carry capacity for an 18-wheeler is about 20 tons, so 250 tons a day would bring a dozen big trucks every day into the Battle Creek facility.
Seriously folks, you can’t make money like that! So an under-the-counter deal was made between some Page County supervisors and Tellurian to illegally accept delivery of 1,500 tons/day at the Battle Creek landfill. The DEQ in Richmond, the Governor’s office (at the time this was Governor Mark Warner, now a 2008 Democratic presidential aspirant, and his Republican Attorney General Jerry Kilgore) and others were aware of the deal. 1,500 tons! That’s six-dozen big trucks a day, and the over-dumping began.
An illegal “amendment” to the Page County contract with Tellurian – increasing the garbage deliveries to 1,500 tons a day – was physically signed by the local County supervisors on 14 December 2001. Within hours of this illegal amendment, Tellurian was purchased by Winston Partners. Several months later, Tellurian was renamed National Waste Services of Virginia. Over-dumping continued, with help from the Virginia DEQ and the governor’s office for nearly two years.
After two years, the Battle Creek landfill was closed – not for felonious and fraudulent over-dumping by 600% – but instead for minor reasons that would be easily overturned in court, including failure to cover the garbage daily with only one inch of dirt instead of two, too-steep gradients, and the odd missing storm drain.
Upon the closure of the landfill, Marvin Bush’s NWS sued Page County supervisors. The lawsuit alleged that the closure violated the contract and had pushed NWS into bankruptcy. Even though Page County had the right to end the contract without penalty at any time, Page County supervisors agreed not only to have the County’s taxpayers clean up the environmental mess made at the Battle Creek Landfill, but for them to pay NWS’s landfill related debts.
Marvin Bush owed another company, Capitol Source, $34 million as a result of the alleged bankruptcy of NWS. Even though the court imposed no criminal or civil penalties, the settlement agreement deemed that Marvin Bush would receive $34 million, and that he would receive Battle Creek landfill profits until the debt is totally paid.
The general saga has been reported here and here. It is also well known to federal investigators.
In sum, Page County is handing over the first $34 million of profits from the recently re-opened Battle Creek landfill to Marvin Bush. Presumably, the bribes paid by NWS and Winston Partners to the various government officials – both Democrat and Republican – are covered by the $34 million.

There’s more. Marvin and the WTC and the Kuwaitis, a la Wayne Madsen. But this hand in glove, garden variety criminality, on an industrial farm scale, in Ohio and Virginia and all over our country is what has done us in.
No kinks, no call-girls, no sex-pistols. Nothing to see here but crony capitalism. The landfill bidness. For landed families like the Lucheses, the Gambinos and the Bushes.

Posted by: John Francis Lee | Apr 28 2006 13:47 utc | 10

Well, I agree with John Perkins, that to rise that high in government you have to be implicated in something pretty nasty so that they can control you. It’s called being a “made” man.

Posted by: Malooga | Apr 28 2006 14:48 utc | 11

Given Billmon’s reference to call girls, I think I need to post a quick reminder here: there is no mention in any of the news articles of the prostitutes’ gender.
Given the Reagan administration’s call-boy scandal and the whole Gannon/Guckert thing, I’m inclined to reserve judgement on the gender of the prostitutes in this case. There’s a good chance that at least some were male.

Posted by: silence | Apr 28 2006 15:00 utc | 12

Spot on, silence

Cunningham, who is married with grown children, has admitted to romantic, loving relationships with men, both during his Vietnam military service and as a civilian. That was the remarkable story that this publication reported two years ago, when Elizabeth Birch, the former Human Rights Campaign leader, inadvertently outed Cunningham at a gay rights forum.
Birch never mentioned Cunningham’s name, but she talked about a rabidly anti-gay congressman who asked to meet privately with her in the midst of a controversy over his use in a speech on the floor of the House the term “homos” to describe gays who have served in the military.
Alone with Birch and an HRC staffer, the unnamed congressman shared that he had loved men during his life. In telling the story, Birch offered up a few too many details about the closeted congressman.
A few Google searches later, the Blade reported that it had to be Cunningham, whose career was pockmarked with bizarre gay pronouncements, including a reference to the rectal treatment he received for prostate cancer, something he told an audience “was just not natural, unless maybe you’re Barney Frank.”

Posted by: b | Apr 28 2006 15:13 utc | 13

silence:
I rushed over after reading billmon to post exactly the same reminder/clarification…what with all the family-value dudes involved in this saga.
Glad to see I’m not the only one moa reader worried about our morals 🙂

Posted by: simplyLurking | Apr 28 2006 17:43 utc | 14

More than morals are involved…
One amongst many reports, I just picked the first off google:
“When the news [of the attacks on the World Trade Center] came, the two Florida lawmakers who lead the House and Senate intelligence committees were having breakfast with the head of the Pakistani intelligence service. Rep. Porter Goss, R-Sanibel, Sen. Bob Graham and other members of the House Intelligence Committee were talking about terrorism issues with the Pakistani official when a member of Goss’ staff handed a note to Goss, who handed it to Graham. “We were talking about terrorism, specifically terrorism generated from Afghanistan,” Graham said. (…) Mahmoud Ahmad, director general of Pakistan’s intelligence service, was “very empathetic, sympathetic to the people of the United States,” Graham said. (…)”
Global Research
General Ahmad is practically the only person (ach! there’s the Saudi Princess…) ever publically described as being involved in 9/11 financing. He sent 100 000 dollars to Atta according to a plethora of press reports. One article, which give details, excerpt:
“On the morning of Sept. 11, Goss and Graham were having breakfast with a Pakistani general named Mahmud Ahmed — the soon-to-be-sacked head of Pakistan’s intelligence service. Ahmed ran a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.” (Washington Post, 18 May 2002).”
Melbourne Indymedia
Another, better, with more:
Chossudovsky

Posted by: Noisette | Apr 28 2006 19:01 utc | 15

so maybe, rather than poker parties, some were there for a bit of pok’im?
peter dale scott’s deep politics mentioned how prostitution rings & sexual blackmail are very integral to politics. and, as malooga mentioned, john perkins provided anecdotal evidence to collaborate this. there’s likely reels & rolls of film out there, but fat chance if much (any?) crosses our eyes.

Posted by: b real | Apr 28 2006 20:30 utc | 16

here’s the relevant passage from deep politics and the death of jfk

One of the most underreported political topics is the extent to which prostitution in Washington has been the key to ongoing corruption and scandal in that city. Like other researchers, I have listened to a retired Washigton detective, one who played a small but important role in Watergate; he is convinced that the systematic sexual seduction of Congress and the Administration is an ongoing, highly organized, and protected operation. This claim has long formed part of the anti-establishment rhetoric of puritanical right-wing extremists, but there is also empirical evidence to support it.
Subsequent revelations about Watergate in 1972, and the so-called Koreagate scandal of 1978, corroborates his hypothesis that mob-supplied call girls, with their phones bugged by intelligence agents, have driven the major scandals of Washington since at least the beginning of the Cold War. Scholarly memories, possibly because of denial, tend to be short when it comes to sexual politics. Few now remember, for example, that the first congressional investigations of military lobbying by Howard Huges, in 1947, drew attention to the women that Hughes’s press agent, John Meyer, had “procured” for military men, including President Roosevelt’s sone Elliott.

scott goes on to mention hoover’s prized “personal and confidential” files, the services of jack ruby, the investigative material on the heidi rikan call-girl operation’s involvement w/ Watergate (& the likelihood that in-the-news-again reporter jack anderson was getting inside info from rikan’s op),koreagate and the george town club, lobbyist robert gray & a male-prostitution service on capitol hill, and a quote from an investigator on the abandoned house ethics committee sex & drug case, taken from susan trento’s book the power house,

If a lobbyist wants to use hookers to influence legislation, there’s a pool of talent he draws from. There are certain madams in town that they make connections with. By simple logic if you’re in the business of influencing people with male prostitutes or kids, there has to be that supply chain. So by looking into these rings, we were trying to identify that aspect of it. If you’re an intelligence service, foreign intelligence service or a friendly intelligence service or a corrupt lobbyist or an organized crime entity, and you want to influence political figures in Washington, D.C., the bottom line is you’re all dipping into the same pool. … [If] we start to identify some of the clients, it’s possible we could find some of the suppliers for intelligence, organized crime, and lobbyists.”

blackmail, influence, intelligence, power – it’s an integral part of politics

Posted by: b real | Apr 29 2006 3:07 utc | 17

“You have to love it: Whores buying whores for whores.”
Thanks, Billmon.

Posted by: PeeDee | Apr 29 2006 9:42 utc | 18

noisette, great Chossudovsky link. that florida connection reminds me of the recent arrest of the homeland security guy from florida on child pornography/internet charges.
somebody has to troll for supply for these sexual escapades,
makes me wonder if he wasn’t working in an official capacity

Posted by: annie | Apr 29 2006 19:23 utc | 19

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