Remember MZM, the company run by Mitchell Wade, the guy who bribed Duke Cunningham?
Their first contract was $140,000.00 with the office of the Vice President.
Via Josh Marshall:
The contract was signed on July 15th, 2002 and it was supposedly for "office furniture."
On December 5th, 2005, the LA Times reported that the contract was "to provide office furniture and computers for Vice President Cheney."
The question, "What the heck is a security services company doing supplying office furniture?" indicates corruption, this misses the big picture.
But wait, there's more, because it's NOT office furniture:
The book's called The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the Most Corrupt Congressman Ever Caught. Today I got a glance at a key section of the book and it reveals that what that contract was really for was for screening the president's mail.
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A company with NO history of government contracts gets a contract to screen mail for the White House?
What's up with that?
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We know that Dick Cheney has had a career of trading on contacts to enrich himself and his friends. That's how he became President of Halliburton.
But we know something else about "Mr. Undisclosed Location", we know that he
will never put himself at personal physical risk.
He went back to college to dodge the draft. He got married when he did to dodge the draft. He had his first child to dodge the draft.
He would never EVER knowingly put himself at risk. Keeping his flabby, lily white, atherosclerotic ass safe is central to his DNA.
It's even more central to who he is than nastiness, partisanship, or greed.
Whether or not it was an illegal bribe, or just an unethical favor that got Mitchell this contract, it does not matter.
It would not happen unless Cheney was CERTAIN that there was no anthrax risk.
Does this mean that Cheney is behind the Anthrax mailings? No.
It means that they know who is, and that he's being watched closely, and kept in their back pocket, until the next time that they need some fear for political advantage.