Reposting this again for Kittybowtie.
We know about KBR-Halliburton ties with Dick Cheney. But, I wanted to mention the other contracting companies that are not mentioned in the news under the radar:
CACI
CACI, another interrogation contractor, is also famous for human rights abuses in the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. For at least five years, CACI has utilized the services of the Livingston Group. The Livingston Group has strong ties to Capital Hill as well.
The name was given to the company by former House Appropriations Committee chairman and Speaker of the House, Bob Livingston.
Livingston is the only former chairman of the Appropriations Committee now in private practice.
Some of Livingston's former aides work on the CACI account.
Titan
Titan, one of the contractors implicated in the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal, has many connections between their lobbying power and former government staffers.
Gene Ray, Titan's founding CEO, was Air Force Chief of Staff and Chief of the Air Force Strategic Division
John Dressendorfer, former White House lobbyist under President Reagan
Susan Golding, former Republican Mayor of San Diego
American Defense International, which employs Van Hipp and Michael Herson, former
underlings during Dick Cheney's reign as Defense Secretary
Titan has also employed the services of NorthPoint Strategies. NorthPoint is made up mostly of former staffers of Randy Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.), who once sat on the Armed Forces Committee, the Intelligence Committee and the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, but now sits in federal prison.
And a relook at Blackwater:
Blackwater
When Blackwater staff were massacred in Fallujah, Blackwater turned to the Alexander Strategy Group to help weather the media firestorm.60 Blackwater and Alexander already had a relationship developed by lobbying on regulations on private militias in war zones,61 and Alexander had all the right relationships on the Hill:
Ed Buckham, former Chief of Staff for former House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay.
Buckham is Alexander's chairman.
Tony Rudy, former DeLay operative.
Karl Gallant, former head of DeLay's leadership PAC.
Additionally, Blackwater has direct ties with the Republican Party. Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, is a staunch Republican and closely tied with the religious right. His sister, Betsy DeVos, is the Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party. His father helped Gary Bauer, religious right leader, develop the Family Research Council in the late 1980s.
More on the war profiteers report.
CACI
CACI, another interrogation contractor, is also famous for human rights abuses in the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. For at least five years, CACI has utilized the services of the Livingston Group. The Livingston Group has strong ties to Capital Hill as well.
The name was given to the company by former House Appropriations Committee chairman and Speaker of the House, Bob Livingston.
Livingston is the only former chairman of the Appropriations Committee now in private practice.
Some of Livingston's former aides work on the CACI account.
Titan
Titan, one of the contractors implicated in the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal, has many connections between their lobbying power and former government staffers.
Gene Ray, Titan's founding CEO, was Air Force Chief of Staff and Chief of the Air Force Strategic Division
John Dressendorfer, former White House lobbyist under President Reagan
Susan Golding, former Republican Mayor of San Diego
American Defense International, which employs Van Hipp and Michael Herson, former
underlings during Dick Cheney's reign as Defense Secretary
Titan has also employed the services of NorthPoint Strategies. NorthPoint is made up mostly of former staffers of Randy Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.), who once sat on the Armed Forces Committee, the Intelligence Committee and the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, but now sits in federal prison.
And a relook at Blackwater:
Blackwater
When Blackwater staff were massacred in Fallujah, Blackwater turned to the Alexander Strategy Group to help weather the media firestorm.60 Blackwater and Alexander already had a relationship developed by lobbying on regulations on private militias in war zones,61 and Alexander had all the right relationships on the Hill:
Ed Buckham, former Chief of Staff for former House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay.
Buckham is Alexander's chairman.
Tony Rudy, former DeLay operative.
Karl Gallant, former head of DeLay's leadership PAC.
Additionally, Blackwater has direct ties with the Republican Party. Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, is a staunch Republican and closely tied with the religious right. His sister, Betsy DeVos, is the Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party. His father helped Gary Bauer, religious right leader, develop the Family Research Council in the late 1980s.
More on the war profiteers report.
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