CIA nominee Hayden linked to MZM Inc.,
By on May 8th, 2006 at 11:46 am
CIA nominee Hayden linked to MZM Inc.,
the defense firm founded by Cunningham-linked contractor Mitchell Wade, according to TPM Muckraker: “While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden contracted the services of a top executive at the company at the center of the Cunningham bribery scandal, according to two former employees of the company.”
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What kind of compatition can their possibly be for military contracts when military contractors and military leaders are part of the same collective? Why not just put generals and admirals on the board of directors of military contracting companies?
Add the “brothers” of the coverup committee to the group too. They all seem to be into making war for profit.
May 8th, 2006 at 11:54 amMZM in the WH with contracts and providing “services” to Congresspeople, NSA doing illegal spying…..I wonder who is currently being blackmailed by this administration in Washington.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:00 pmIs anyone actually surprised by this? Seems like SOP in the Chimp’s administration. Too bad they haven’t found Hayden attended hooker parties with Porter and the boys also. Of course when information like that comes out the conservative-biased media will blame it on Bill Clinton.
Next?
May 8th, 2006 at 12:06 pmOf course when information like that comes out the conservative-biased media will blame it on Bill Clinton.
Next?
Comment by Curlew #3
Curlew,
It’s those dam*ned cigars…
…I always warned Bill about them…
May 8th, 2006 at 12:10 pmA vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present
and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system — ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
May 8th, 2006 at 12:11 pmGenerals and Admirals ARE on the Board of Directors of every military contractor–they are retired, of course, but the military contractors make good of thier connections in DC and, of course, as commentators on the Sunday morning political shows. Interesting how they are always identified as ‘retired general so-and-so,’ but never as ‘lobbying consultant’ or ‘on BOD of Lockheed.’
Another enormous beef with Hayden is that he is on-record as mis-stating/not understanding the Fourth Amendment and the protection it gives (or doesn’t give, in his skewed recollection) against search and seizure without probable cause. He defends warrantless spying of US citizens by misquoting the Constitution, and Bush wants him to HEAD the CIA? Not surprising, I suppose.
If we as a country roll-over about being spied upon by the Federal government, the United States of America will be a very different place indeed from what our Constitutional framers envisioned.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:13 pmDoes this suprise anyone? The most Toxic,The Most Corrupt, The most Ineffectual Government in over Two Hundred Years!
And to top this off the Republican Party has abandon the middle class and are focusing on the top percent of the wealthy . Tax cuts for the very wealthy,estate tax that will only affect 12,500 people and in a few years that number goes down to 7000
but it adds trillons to the over heavy debt.
Thanks republicans the next time I run into Lamar Alexander and BillFristI am cussing them into next Sunday! I am pissed that noone seems to give a damn about this country and the American people!
May 8th, 2006 at 12:19 pmThat Bush would appoint a loyalist is no suprise. I don’t like Hayden, but he is a water carrrier. He will do or say whatever is needed. If you want an idea of defense contractors promising jobs to military personnel who make buying decision, recall the recent scandal at Boeing, over the purchase of a number of tankers.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:20 pm#5, Good post, Gerald.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:29 pmIke was a Republican, yet could see the danger of
corporate interests infiltrating governmental operations.
I think we’re well beyond ‘infiltration & influence’.
Corporate greed has no limits.
No profit margin is ‘enough’.
Corporate Citizenship has devoured private rights.
Corporate citizenship allows pharmaceutical interests
TO WRITE OUR LAWS FOR US!
Frist can stick that legislation right back where it came from…
The United Corporations of America.
Hey Bill, how’s your SEC investigation going?
We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
Comment by Gerald Gibson #5
Gerald,
If correct…
…such a statistic only goes to show how unevolved Americans are…
…with the obsession Americans have with creating more destructive ways to take human life…
…the statistics on homicides and other violent crimes…
…by and large, Americans are perhaps the most UNCIVILIZED people on earth…
…as evidenced more recently by the fact that…
…with so much global hope, good will and promise left behind by the Clinton administration…
…(I’ll never forget the photos of him being engulfed in a sea of Africans upon his visit there)…
… with supposedly the world’s most educated populace…
…George W. Bush not only managed to come to power but!
…somehow got re-selected…
…what a sad commentary on American society…
May 8th, 2006 at 12:33 pmAhhh, the ‘ol
May 8th, 2006 at 12:41 pmMilitary Industrial (and now add) Security Complex….
rears its ugly head from the abyss…. again….and again……….and again……….
#5 *sniff* Thank you.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:49 pm“While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden contracted the services of a top executive at the company at the center of the Cunningham bribery scandal, according to two former employees of the company.â€
This is one of the worst examples of TP’s McCarthy style tactics in recent memory. This statement contains no evidence of any wrongdoing by Gen. Hayden. It does not say that the contract violated any government procedures. It does not say that the contractor was paid more than the going price for his services. It does not say that the contractor failed to perform his duties under the contract. It does not even hint that Gen. Hayden received any improper gift, kickback, bribe or other benefit from the contractor. It merely says that an executive at MZM was hired by the NSA to perform unspecified services. There is nothing ebven remotely wrong with that.
Unless TP has some evidence that Gen. Hayden committed some crime or breach of procedure in connection with this contract, TP should remove this thread, and should apologize for smearing Gen. hayden’s name and record as NSA director.
May 8th, 2006 at 1:06 pmGood to know that Hayden will be indicted eventually too.
Build more prisons, the pugs are coming!
May 8th, 2006 at 1:08 pmJust keep your head in the sand BSR, no need to start any critical thinking. We will fix the country again, just like we did after Reagan.
May 8th, 2006 at 1:10 pm# 13
May 8th, 2006 at 1:12 pmThanks for the reminder that our criminal justice system is founded upon “innocent until proven guilty”
( Shouldn’t take too long to chain this jerk up short )
Oh, yeah, I forgot to add:
May 8th, 2006 at 1:15 pmValerie Plame for Director of the CIA
#5
Thank you for your posting. I have always heard the military industrial complex quote attributed to Ike, but just the sound bite version.
The speech in its entirety is an altogether different statement.
It is strangely more appropriate for today than for the time in which it was written.
In fact until I got to the phrase “military-industrial -complex” I thought it was a current
May 8th, 2006 at 1:17 pmday piece.
Unless TP has some evidence that Gen. Hayden committed some crime or breach of procedure in connection with this contract, TP should remove this thread, and should apologize for smearing Gen. hayden’s name and record as NSA director.
Comment by Blue State Red #13
Fool State inb’Red,
Only if you eat your hunting rifle…
…or accompany L’il Dick on his next quail hunt…
…and volunteer to flush out the quails…
May 8th, 2006 at 1:37 pmHayden wants to wiretap every phone in America, so those who like being eavesdropped on can praise that damn General, but those who do not must contact their Senators to vote NO for his confirmation as Director of the CIA!
May 8th, 2006 at 2:51 pm#13 BSR,
Gen. Hayden lied about the NSA wiretaps, he’s obviously an “Undesireable” so whatever it takes to smear him. How do you like that medicine? I got it from your boys.
May 8th, 2006 at 6:44 pmhe’s obviously an “Undesireable†so whatever it takes to smear him.
Yup. Just like Tailgunner Joe. Your mother must be very proud.
May 8th, 2006 at 7:30 pmThe right- and leftwing media and -bloggers try to sell you the spin,
that “Project Trailblazer” by Hayden was an alleged failure.
This is hoagwash.
Trailblazer is a huge satellite spy surveillance program,
which runs since 1998/99, with big contracts to defense contractors like
Titan Corporation (James Woolsey, PNAC, ex-CIA), BTG Inc..
The “eavesÂdropping program” is part of Trailblazer, itself a new cov name project
for Ronald Reagan’s STAR WARS and its intelligence surveillance tools.
These folks know exactly what they’re doing, under the cover of “negligence”.
Actually the irony is, that “Trailblazer” also is a scripted analogy and official secret service code name for George Bush.
Enuff said, “Trailblazer” is nothing other than the operation of 9/11.
The key players had been Stephen Campone and former NGA director James C. King who left NIMA(NGA) 2 days after Bush’s alleged Bin Laden 9/11 memo, to start MZM Inc, the very same company which immediately close with Hayden and now linked to the bribery scandal and the distractive hooker stories.
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2001/b08082001_bt363-01.html
August 8, 2001
The privatization of CIA and Pentagon started BEFORE 9/11, in awareness of 9/11.
9/11 was an Inside Job. The takeover and the space surveillance program was part of the goals of the real 9/11 perps. The Homeland Security was also already established with help of ANSER Institute, BEFORE 9/11!!
Too many prior knowledge plannings for just a ‘limited hangout’, but because of the dumbness of leftgatekeepers they still get away with it.
More here:
May 10th, 2006 at 6:17 pmHayden and the NSA- the most ignored “9/11 connection”
http://www.team8plus.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?2890.last
http://www.team8plus.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?2890
http://www.team8plus.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?2890.10
05/12 Update
The privatized NSA “takeover”
-How NSA and NARUS spied on us between 1993 and 2001
By ewing2001
http://www.team8plus.org/ e107_pl…90.20#post_2962
…On Friday Michael Hayden defended the “secret surveillance programs” he oversaw while head of the National Security.
What noone writes about, this isn’t just a cover-up of some violations of privacy, it is strongly also connected with the cover-up of BOTH 9/11 plotline and military operation of 9/11, which included more than just ‘controlled demolitions’, apparent ‘TV fakery” and some missiles.
It was a logistical operation on how to establish
May 13th, 2006 at 3:45 ama complete paradigm change on surveillance and profiling….