Transition team

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The actual bushcheneytransition.com website which some of these articles refer to has a "registrar lock" as of 12/8/05. It says first registered in 2004, it will not expire until February 2006. Many links in the articles do not work. Figures.
Even if they attempt to scrub, any of these transition team members could be called to testify on Jack & W or Dick connection. That will be popcorn time for me.
Since nothing much showed up on good ol' Jack, aside from what we already know, just thought to post since it is interesting how these people have taken over the government.
A collection of sources on the transition (or referring to) in 2000. Memory lane +

In the weeks since election day, it has been Mr Cheney who has set up the Bush transition team, who has interviewed potential members of the administration, and who has taken charge of negotiations with congressional lead ers about the legislative agenda.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,2763,411588,00.html

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/chrntran.html

Interior nominees face Senate hearing
LYNN SCARLETT:
A member of the Bush-Cheney transition team, Scarlett was announced for her post in April. As head of Policy, Management and Budget, she'd be in charge of the Interior's spending.
Its a big job for the $10 billion agency which the Bush administration has targeted for a number of cuts. Democrats on the Committee have opposed slashes to the endangered species protections while Republicans like Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado have complained about tribal school funding.
In addition to money planning, Scarlett will be responsible for developing Interior policy. Some environmental groups have questioned her views here, arguing she would seek less stringent environmental regulations.
http://www.indianz.com/News/show.asp?ID=pol/6202001-3

High Plains Grifter
Of the 41 members of the Bush transition team, 34 came from the oil industry. The mask has slipped off the beast. Not since the days of Warren Harding has big oil enjoyed a firmer stranglehold on the controls of the federal government. Bush's inner circle is dominated by oil men, starting with Bush and Cheney and including six cabinet members and 28 top political appointees. Recall that Condoleeza Rice has an oil tanker named after her and that Stephen Griles, the number two man at the Interior Department, was the oil industry's top lobbyist and continued to be paid $285,000 a year by his former firm as he handed out oil leases to his former clients. Griles is the Albert Fall of our time. Fall, the architect of the Teapot Dome scandal, where his crony's oil company was quietly handed the rights to drill on federal lands in Wyoming, pronounced: "All natural resources should be made as easy of access as possible to the present generation. Man cannot exhaust the resources of nature and never will." More than 80 years later, this reckless nonsense could serve as a motto for the Bush administration. But see how times have changed: Fall went to jail for his self-dealing; Griles got a bonus.
http://eatthestate.org/08-15/NaturePolitics.htm

Who's Who on President Bush's Health and Human Services Transition Team:
Watchdog organizations have long expressed concern about the influence of money in politics. There have been endless speculations about the price of a friendly ear in Congress. Concerns have been raised about the revolving door between industry and key political positions. There have been allegations about politicians with financial interests—such as stock and prestigious positions on company boards—in the industries they regulate. And, of course, the industry’s willingness to spend millions of dollars to exert its influence goes without question. These problems have plagued many administrations—and the present administration is no exception.
http://www.healthlaw.org/library.cfm?fa=download&resourceID=67694&appView=folder&print

my comment: on "and the present administration is no exception" it is this administration's rule.

Bush Assembles Pro-Missile Defense National Security Team
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2001_01-02/bushjanfeb01.asp

John Nichols:
Does he believe that Justices Antonin Scalia, whose sons were associated with firms that represented George W. Bush's campaign, and Clarence Thomas, whose wife was working with Bush's transition team, should have recused themselves from the deliberations? Does he worry that the decision to intervene in the case might have damaged the court's reputation as an independent body that stands apart from the partisan politics associated with the executive branch?

Of course, Alito will try to avoid such questions, just as Roberts did when Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin, made a tepid attempt to raise the issue last year. But Alito has no excuse for refusing to answer.

The case of Bush v. Gore will never come before the court again. And the court itself has ruled that the decision should not be interpreted as setting a precedent. Thus, it is one of the few court decisions that is entirely, and appropriately, open to discussion by a nominee.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060109/cm_thenation/147939

E. J. Dionne Jr.:
After the 2000 election, Abramoff was named to the Bush transition team for the Interior Department, which regulates the Indian casinos that paid Abramoff his inflated fees.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010501903.html

Corporate Donors Seek Return On Investment In Bush Campaign
Raymond Gilmartin, chairman and chief executive of Merck, and Anne Marie Lynch and Bill Walters, top officials at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the industryís main trade group, all served as advisers to the Bush transition team on health issues.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/corporate.cfm