Exec of Company Owned By Carlyle Group Confirmed as Army Secretary

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(Another) Industry Executive Confirmed by Senate as Army Secretary
By Robert Burns The Associated Press
Published: Nov 16, 2004

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBRWQGPM1E.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Tuesday confirmed defense industry executive Francis J. Harvey as secretary of the Army, the service's top civilian post.

Harvey was lauded by his Republican backers for his credentials in the defense industry.

Harvey is vice chairman of Duratek Inc., a Maryland-based company that specializes in treating radioactive, hazardous and other wastes. Previously, he worked for Westinghouse Electric Corp. for nearly three decades and was president of Westinghouse's defense and electronics systems group.

The White House originally nominated James Roche, the Air Force secretary (former Northrup-Grumman president), to replace White, but his nomination was withdrawn last spring after it languished in the Senate for months. Roche has remained as Air Force secretary, although it is widely expected he will not remain for a second term.
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TOP GEEK TO HEAD ARMY
At first, they wanted him to be the Pentagon's geek-in-chief. Now, Donald Rumsfeld and company are about to nominate him as the new head of the Army, the Times reports.

Francis J. ("Fran") Harvey ran a division of Westinghouse for years before becoming vice chairman of nuclear waste disposal company Duratek. The firm is owned, in part, by the Carlyle Group -- the investment arm of Bush, Inc., basically.

Harvey, according to a Federal Computer Week article, "is known more for his business aptitude than his information technology know-how." But it seems to me that with his ties to the Bushies, and his (aborted) stint as CIO, Harvey can be counted on to carry out Rumsfeld's plans to transform the Army into a lighter, quicker, "network-centric" force. These efforts have run into some resistance at the Pentagon, where top officers blame problems with the Iraq occupation on Rummy's need to test out his new-fangled, high-tech Army.

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001000.html

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1. Article- Army post candidate has ties to Carlyle

. . . likely, it was Harvey's ties to the defense industry and the influential Carlyle Group that won him the Bush administration's favor.

Carlyle owns about 23 percent of the company and appointed Harvey to Duratek's board in 1998. He has been re-elected by shareholders every year since then.

Diane Brown, Duratek's vice president of investor relations, said about 3 percent of the company's revenue comes from the Army. About 10 percent is from the Department of Defense and 65 percent from the Energy Department. The rest comes from commercial contracts.

Harvey also sits on the board of Carlyle-owned Kuhlman Electric, a maker of transformers. It has no apparent defense contracts.

Chris Ullman, a spokesman for the Carlyle Group, said he's confident that Harvey, if appointed Army secretary, won't show any special favors to former business partners.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2004/07/11/BUGMD7IR071.DTL

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2. Circling the (Carlyle) wagons- Daily Kos

Harvey, in his mid-60s, is on the board of directors of Duratek of Columbia, Md., a company that treats hazardous waste and is owned in part by the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm with ties to retired but influential Republican officials.

A Los Gatos, Calif., resident, Harvey also serves on the boards of two other companies controlled by the Carlyle Group: Kuhlman Electric Corp. and The IT Group.

Prior to these positions, Harvey was chief operating officer of the $6 billion Industries and Technology Group of Westinghouse. While at Westinghouse he served as president of the Electronics Systems Groups in Baltimore, which was later acquired by Northrop Grumman.
Sure looks like BushCo is trying to get another fox in the henhouse.

http://anoldsoul.blogspot.com/2004/10/circling-carlyle-wagons.html

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3. Army Secretary Appointee Has No Military Experience - Runs Carlyle Groups'

post:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/7/52910/6448

[Karenina]

4. THE NAZIS HAVE TAKEN OVER!

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! Where is that guy on the horse when you need him?

[merh]

5. Do the repukes realize that what is occurring was what one of

their most famous and well liked presidents warned against? Eisenhower said this could happen and as president, he would not allow it. :cry:

[K-W]

6. Facist alert.

Automatic facist alert triggered by obvious facist.