Former Bush official runs secretive ‘Cockroaches’ group

Even if they are actually "only a bit better at surviving radiation than" humans, it has often been theorized that only cockroaches might withstand a nuclear blast and "inherit the earth."

A Capitol Hill newspaper sheds some light on a secretive group using that nickname.

Roll Call's Paul Singer reports, "Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) hangs out with Cockroaches."

These are not the crunchy, skittery kind of cockroaches that terrorize your kitchen, but the well-shod Washington insider kind that gather several times a year for a high-powered confab on defense and intelligence matters.

The Cockroaches are a venerable Washington, D.C., institution that has apparently never been written about, a kind of not-so-secret society for several hundred current and former defense intelligence officials, private-sector contracting firms, lobbyists, Congressional staffers and Members of Congress. The group meets every other month or so for off-the-record dinners to discuss new developments in defense and intelligence, and to swap war stories, literally and figuratively.

At the center of the Cockroaches are Gary Sojka and Michael Swetnam, two former staffers who decided to start a supper club. Swetnam worked in the White House in the George H.W. Bush administration, and Sojka was a staff member on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees.

The idea was to continue to share information and stay connected to official Washington and each other, they said. Sojka also launched the lobbying firm Potomac Advocates — though he points out that his firm does more strategic advising than lobbying these days. Swetnam runs a think tank/research center called the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, which he and Sojka founded to replace the independent scientific advisory capacity that Congress lost when the Office of Technology Assessment was shut down in 1995. The institute takes nearly all of its funding from government contracts and occasional earmarks, but it is prohibited from lobbying, Swetnam said.

An online bio adds, "From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Swetnam served as a Special Consultant to President Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) where he provided expert advice on Intelligence Community issues including budget, community architecture, and major programs. He also assisted in authoring the Board's assessment of Intelligence Community support to Desert Storm/Shield."

While, Sojka also is a "seasoned Republican fund-raiser and a registered lobbyist."
More at: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0503/bush-official-runs-secretive-cockroaches-group/

Good grief! A shadow government???
I wonder what classified nuggets get passed along?

more that preteen boys in their secret clubhouses.

Other than that, I completely agree.

If they do, then maybe we should send them some for mascots.

http://www.topline-2000.com/roach/rhsale.html

What can they blow up / allow to be blown up this time?

Will the reference a new "galvanizing event".

When i recently posted a "what to do if there is a nuclear emergency" thread I realized that there are preventive things that can be done to prevent radiation from killing you or being absorbed into our blood and bones and fetuses, to some degree, to prevent later cancer and death. Iodine tincture (betadine - oveer the counter, calcium and prussian blue were among those things we should probably be taking often and should probably have on hand to survive the nuclear pollution which is now everywhere in our environment that we cannot see , smell or taste.

The idea that these "cockroaches" have adopted the name and mentality of those who will survive just reconfirms for me that there are probably things being done which may impact huge swaths of population (birth rates, infant death rates, cancer rates) all or many caused by the nuclear industry (Halliburton, Exxon, Bush, Cheney, et al) which is harming all of us EXCEPT those with the preventive cockroach cocktail that protects them and their spawn.

Just sayin'...

The name fits but it also fits my theor5y that nuclear energy is really a population control device and that fascists like these cockroaches already KNOW that it is killing us and they WANT to reduce the population while promoting their own kind (mostly WASPy Nazi 4th Reichian "eugenicists")

Thanks for posting this important tidbit

K&R

Thank you for a most important article, Are_grits_groceries. While I can't afford it, myself, I have imagined the positive feeling of belonging to a power greater than myself, however:

Know your BFEE: The Secret Government

Cockroaches: It takes one to know one.



The Metamorphosis, performed at Stanford University.

whilst watching the mindless flick "2012". If the BFEE types are setting themselves up to be the only survivors of some apocalypse, then the species is doomed for sure. Among them there isn't a single one who can wipe his own arse by himself, or make a PB&J unassisted. They're used to slinging orders, not doing real work. If they kill off the smelly, inconvenient, poor people who are feeding and clothing them, that's the end of them. Possibly, good riddance. If that's the best we can do for ourselves, then the human species has no business leaving the planet.

Most folks haven't figured out that it's thanks to brown hands that green lettuce hits white tables. But reichwingers are very, very good at cutting their noses off to spite their faces.