Howard Cookie Krongard - thief, and master at cover-ups

[ChairmanAgnostic]

I swore that he was somehow connected with AEI or AIPAC, and sure enough, the State Department chief Inspector General was the head of the The National Legal Center for the Public Interest (and AEI flunky that uses the legal system to attack democracy and promote corporatocracy)
http://www.aei.org/research/AEI%20Legal%20Center/projectID.30/default.asp

from the State website
On May 2, 2005, Howard J. Krongard was sworn in as the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. As an independent reviewer and evaluator of their operations and activities, he oversees audits, inspections, and investigations domestically and abroad, including 260 diplomatic missions in 163 countries and international broadcasting operations in 61 languages that reach an audience of more than 100 million people around the world.

From 1996 to 2005, Mr Krongard was Of Counsel to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, a 260-year-old international law firm with 2,500 lawyers in 29 offices worldwide. He was a Director of The National Legal Center for the Public Interest, Washington, DC; a Public Director of the Pacific Exchange (which also acts as Self Regulatory Organization for the Pacific Exchange and the Archipelago Exchange) and Member of its Audit Committee and Regulatory Oversight Committee; a Director of PCX Holdings (demutualized parent company of Pacific Exchange); Director, PCX Equities, Inc. and Member of its Business Conduct Committee; a Member, Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Non-Lethal Weapons; and the U.S. Representative to the International Lacrosse Federation.
http://oig.state.gov/about/c12822.htm

Does this answer why the State Department was more interested in cover-ups, than in investigations about Iraq frauds, Blackwater crimes, and more?
Could his stint at the Self Regulatory Org. for the Pacific Exchange and Archipelago Exchange mean that he has Abramof and DeLay ties, protecting certain pacific slaveshops from congressional action?

This man lied to Henry Waxman yesterday (check out the CSPAN tape. it can be fully downloaded) Even Chris Shays was forced to express disappointment, even though he was the White House point man on protecting Krongard at the hearing.

krongard lied about his brother being a Director at Blackwater
Krongard lied about giving NPR's Tomlinson a heads up about about the upcoming storm. (he leaked it to Tomlinson's top aide, as though that is different)
krongard lied about not warning several US companies about FBI/State investigations.
krongard lied about why he stopped the State investigation of BLackwater.

par for the course.

[madokie]

1. just add another to the list of the ones who will have a great fall

theres so many neocons to make quite a splash when they come crashing down and they will

[blm]

3. I'm starting to think that will never happen. Too many powerful Dems side with

protecting the secrecy and privilege of the powerful elite that comprise BushInc.


http://consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html

I just don't see accountability for any of them in our nation's future. I see us being forced to go along with the Dems who are charged with dragging reluctant Dems onto that road to full on fascism.

[BridgeTheGap]

2. Cookie & Buzzie - sounds like MOB names

Weren't these guys on the Sopranos?

[Benhurst]

4. Just the other day, I told a friend I felt as though

I was living in a Damon Runyon play. You are so right about the mob names.