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Guide to Richard Perle: [anti-Semitism deleted] Prince of Darkness |
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by Gabriel Demombynes AKA DAN "Got Meth?" Disinfo
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18 Feb 2004
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The Field Guide to Richard Perle: Prince of Darkness, and War Profiteer |
The slimiest figure among the crew of insiders that has pushed us into war is Richard Perle, who was assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, and is now on the Defense Policy Board, an outside-the-Pentagon group of military intellectuals that advises the Department of Defense. He is one of the principal architects of the New Imperialism. His nickname-I'm not making this up-is the "Prince of Darkness."
1) Overview articles on Perle
Maureen Dowd summarizes some key points about Perle:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Perle_NYT_March_23_2003.htm
Arianna Huffington does her own overview:
http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=14736
A long summary article on the American Politics Journal website:
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030327Koop.html
2) Articles on corporate military connections to Bush administration, including Perle
Bob Herbert attacks the merchants of war in his NY Times column
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Spoils_NYT_April_10_2003.htm
“Richard Perle is Not Alone” in Business Week, 4/7/03
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_14/b3827621.htm
3) Article in the UK Guardian in which Perle gloats over the “death of the U.N.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4630077,00.html
4) Sources on Autonomy Corporation
Article from the UK Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4630059,00.html
Very valuable article about Autonomy and Perle from the UK’s Business Weekly:
http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/view_article.asp?article_id=7509
Article from the London Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-619249,00.html
The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) said it “was minded to recommend that shareholders abstain” should Mr Perle, a non-executive director of Autonomy, seek reappointment when his term of office expires this summer. The NAPF fears that he is not independent of Autonomy’s management.
Autonomy’s Board of Directors, Corporate Website:
http://www.autonomy.com/Content/Autonomy/Management
Autonomy’s Office Locations, Corporate Website:
http://www.autonomy.com/Content/Autonomy/Office_Locations
Autonomy’s Work for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Corporate Website:
This page was removed from the Autonomy website following the People Against Empire protest on April 8, 2003.
You can read about the protest at http://www.peopleagainstempire.org/
Courtesy of Google, a copy of the original page can be viewed at http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/AutonomyOHS.html
Autonomy’s Work for Italian Intelligence, Corporate Website:
http://www.autonomy.com/Content/Press/Archives/2003/0303
Autonomy’s SEC filing:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Autonomy_SEC.txt
Article on Total Information Awareness in NY Times:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/TIA_NYT_Nov_9_2002.htm
“You Are a Suspect,” William Safire on Total Information Awareness, in the NY Times, 11/14/02
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1114-08.htm
5) Sources on Global Crossing
Article in the NY Times about conflict of interest he has involving Global Crossing, which also notes the following:
"Mr. Perle, who as chairman of the Defense Policy Board has been a leading advocate of the United States' invasion of Iraq, spoke on Wednesday in a conference call sponsored by Goldman Sachs, in which he advised participants on possible investment opportunities arising from the war. The conference's title was ‘Implications of an Imminent War: Iraq Now. North Korea Next?’”
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Perle_NYT_March_21_2003.htm
Perle’s attempt to defend his position with Global Crossing, in a NYT letter-to-the-editor:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Perle_NYT_March_27_2003.htm
Perle’s more elaborate and disingenuous attempt to defend himself in a Wall Street Journal column:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Perle_WSJ_March_31_2003.htm
6) Article from the NY Times about another conflict of interest involving Loral Space and Communications:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Perle_NYT_March_29_2003.htm
7) Article by Seymour Hersh from the New Yorker that details yet another conflict of interest involving the Trireme defense company and a very shady Saudi businessman named Adnan Khashoggi:
http://newyorker.com/printable/?fact/030317fa_fact
CNN interview in which Perle says "Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/09/le.00.html
“Richard Perle Libel Watch”: Articles from Slate about Perle's plans to sue Hersh for libel
Week 4: http://slate.msn.com/id/2081053/
Week 3: http://slate.msn.com/id/2080743/
Week 2: http://slate.msn.com/id/2080384/
Week 1: http://slate.msn.com/id/2080100/
8) Sources on Rep. John Conyers calls for a Pentagon investigation into Perle’s ties to Autonomy and Global Crossing
Article in NY Times:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Perle_NYT_March_25_2003.htm
Conyers’ March 24 letter to the Pentagon’s Inspector General:
http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/downloads/story_01_032803_doc_letter.pdf
Conyers’ April 1 letter to Donald Rumsfeld:
http://truthout.org/docs_03/040303H.shtml
9) Defense Policy Board Agendas
http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/downloads/story_01_032803_doc_meetings.pdf
10) Sources on Perle’s resignation as chairman of the Defense Policy Board
Ari Fleischer's response when asked whether Perle should resign from the Defense Policy Board due to conflicts of interest:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0313-10.htm
Article from Washington Post about Perle’s resignation as chairman:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Perle_WP_March_28_2003.htm
Article from the Times (London) about the resignation:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Perle_TimesUK_March_28_2003.htm
Perle’s letter of resignation as chairman of the Defense Policy Board:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/b03272003_bt164-03.html
Donald Rumsfeld’s Accepts Perle’s resignation:
“I should add that I have known Richard Perle for many years and know him to be a man of integrity and honor.”
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/b03272003_bt165-03.html
11) Interview with Perle by David Corn of the Nation magazine:
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5631/view/print
12) Counterpunch article with details of earlier scrutiny of Perle:
http://www.counterpunch.com/leopold03282003.html
13) Article from the Wall Street Journal in 1989 about Perle’s firm created to lobby Turkey:
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Perle_WSJ_Feb_16_1989.htm
Priceless Perle quote: "I find very distasteful this business where people leave the government and the next thing you know, they're on the other side of the table negotiating with the U.S."
As Slate’s Jack Shafer says, “Perhaps this was Perle's way of saying it's more ethical to stay inside government and negotiate with the U.S. than to spin through the revolving door and negotiate from the outside.”
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~gabriel/weblog/Prince_of_Darkness.htm
Guide to Richard Perle: Joo-lover, Prince of Darkness, Mastermind of Empire, War Profiteer |
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