he couldn't believe it but was hoping it could be proved and there is a lot of proof and photos of the supposed headquarters on Cannonfire, Kos and comments sections:
Cannonfire:==Note: If you came here by way of LiePar Destin's excellent piece in Kos, you may want to read "Wilkes: The Invisible Empire" first. Also, I'm happy to report that this blockbuster piece on Wilkes in the San Diego Union Tribune strengthens the thesis presented here.)
===From 1996 until this year, for example, Wilkes is listed as personally contributing $40,000 to a variety of congressional campaigns, including those of San Diegoarea Republican congressmen Ron Packard, Brian Bilbray, and Randy "Duke" Cunningham; Democratic senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii; and Democratic Virginia senator Charles Robb. During the same period, Wilkes also gave $10,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee and $5000 to a political action committee run by ADCS.
===How profitable are the defense contracts when $2.5M can be given to Duke and an estimated $10M bat mitsvah for the daughter of a defense contractor who provided inadequate body armor to our troops.
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002118.htm#comments==Corp Watch - UN Global Compact
Corp Watch articles on Brent Wilkes Continuing with my sideline research on Deloitte Touche
==opensecrets, Baghdad Burning, Bush Out, Simply Appalling all down along with Cannonfire
==Contracting probe could extend to CIA
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=32916&dcn=todaysnewsCIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo--whose career duties have encompassed letting CIA contracts--has had a long, close personal relationship with two contractors identified (==Brad, I share your concern about the scope of this. Yet when you look at corporations disassembling the right to vote, corporations manipulating energy markets to oust an elected governor in California, corporations having carte blance to bilk the government on relief operations - why should this surprise us?
I think that this is a little like the tape on the door at the Watergate that the security guard found - looks like nothing too big in itself, but o what it lead to. The main problem is that these people appear to be very adept at covering their tracks. But follow the money, and it should reveal a much broader map.
==Nearly four years ago Donald Rumsfeld said ""According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions,"
Another quote:
"How do we know we need $48 billion since we don't know what we're spending and what we're buying?"
Retired Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan
===Agreed. In reference to Halliburton I have a hypothesis that they are the ones receiving money that was to go for Katrina rebuilding efforts.
The oil rigs, which are in their family, took major hits. There has not been a lot of detail in the Presstitute media, but it would take billions to heal up the damage.
Obviously, from the exhorbitant profits reported by the oil barons, they are not spending their own money on repairs to the hundreds of offshore rigs that were damaged or destroyed by Katrina. Not to mention oil pipelines that were hosed.
So where is the money coming from? Taxpayer dollars that are being routed so the oil barons who run this government can gorge themselves further.
Meanwhile the great American City, New Orleans, suffers and dies.
"Good morning America, How are ya? Doncha know me? ... I'm your native son; I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans ..." (Arlo Guthrie).
There is so much corruption I can't keep track of it anymore. Neither can the presstitutes it seems.
===And a LOT of news since Franken's book release (August): Murder of a guy who had casino financial dealings with Abramoff. Charges against the White House's procurement officer who had close Abramoff ties.
In the January 2003 issue of Esquire, John J. DiIulio Jr., the former head of Bush's faith-based policy office, told Suskind, "There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. . . . What you've got is everything -- and I mean everything -- being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis."
==hope Ney and Hastert go down
==DoJ 'Signals' GOP Corruption Probe Could Be Huge, Says NY Times I found this on Brad Blog. This is excellent! They're saying it could be one of the biggest corruption scandals in history!
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002054.htm#comments ==Then there is the grand jury investigation into Abramoff's dealings with Indian gaming casinos. Money taken from Indian tribes as payment for lobbying efforts was apparently funneled to a myriad of right-wing organizations including Grover Norquist's foundation, Americans for Tax Reform, and Ralph Reed's political consulting firm in Georgia
===DeLay and Safavian have both been indicted and Ney remains under investigation, as does Karl Rove, albeit for an unrelated potential crime. Another indicted GOP player is Tom Noe who bilked the Ohio State Workers Compensation fund out of millions and then allegedly funneled some of that money into the Bush/Cheney coffers.
Noe's wife got in on the action as well, serving as Bush/Cheney campaign chairman while sitting on the election board of Lucas County during the fraud laden 2004 election.
===Visit Mollie Bradley-Martin's website at
http://www.liberalgirlnextdoor.blogspot.com. ===Blogspot.com is now happening again, Bush Out and all the others including Cannon Fire are now available.