Dan Quayle is the Chairman of Cerberus

[malaise]

which is linked to IAP? These aspens are really growing in clusters.
Rep March Kaptur just delivered this doozy on WJ.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=IAP+and++Cerberus+Global+Investments+and+Dan+Quayle&btnG=Search

Gr.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Dan Quayle? A corrupt republicon 'elite' fatcat idiot crony from the past?

How perfectly horrid for the United States of America.

[maine_raptor]

2. WTF???????????? Chairman?????????

He couldn't even spell it, much less head it.

[malaise]

4. Sadly it is true

http://www.vicepresidentdanquayle.com/biography.html
<snip>
Dan Quayle joined the Cerberus Advisory Board in 2000, and currently serves as Chairman. Cerberus is one of the world's leading private investment firms, with over $16 billion in committed capital and offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, Baarn,(The Netherlands), Frankfurt, Osaka,and Tokyo. As Chairman of Cerberus Global Investments, Dan Quayle has been actively involved in new business sourcing and marketing for Cerberus in North America, Asia and Europe. His extensive global network of public sector and private sector decision-makers, combined with his investment expertise, have significantly contributed to the growth of Cerberus. Dan Quayle has offices in New York and Arizona; He regularly travels throughout the US, Europe and Asia to meet with the heads of investment banks, corporations, buyout shops, potential investors, and other business leaders. His responsibilities include (1) ensuring that Cerberus stays at the forefront of deal flow activity, (2) facilitating Cerberus' entry into new markets and industries, and (3) fostering potential transaction partnerships.

Add snip.

[nicknameless]

3. He's also a PNACer

http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

[malaise]

5. Aspens, aspens

Good fugging grief. This is a higher level of kleptocracy.

Add.

[nicknameless]

9. Well ...

[GrantDem]

6. This says it all...

"Eisenhower was right."

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/2/23/21911/3704

[tanyev]

7. The 3 headed watchdog who guards the gates to Hades?

That's ironic.

[vlas]

15. keeping people in hell since 2000...

from wikipedia -

Greek mythology, Cerberus or Kerberos (Greek Κέρβερος, Kerberos, "demon of the pit") was the hound of Hades, a monstrous three-headed dog (sometimes said to have 50 or 100 heads) with a snake for a tail and serpentine mane.

He guarded the gate to Hades. (the Greek underworld) and ensured that all spirits could enter, but none could return.

oh boy - sign me up!

[newyawker99]

21. Hi vlas!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[SpiralHawk]

16. "We need a three-headed dog for our cabal." - Commander AWOL

"I mean, I certainly can't have evalgelical christians pondering why their beloved pResident is a member of an occult darkside cabal of EVIL DOERS, with a cabal-belonging grandpoppy who funded Hitler and the Nazis."

- Commander AWOL

[Geek_Girl]

8. Who would want to invest with them now

If I Had millions to invest in a private investment firm I think I'd stay away from one that Dan Quayle is chairman off.

[Raven]

10. He couldn't spell and probably

can't add either!

[NewJeffCT]

11. I've been out of it the past week - IAP is???

Thanks

[nicknameless]

14. IAP Worldwide Services

They were given the contract for Walter Reed services. Waxman is investigating.

Excerpt from http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/03/waxman_to_force.html

Waxman to Force Walter Reed Ex-Chief to Talk About Problems, Contract

... In the letter, Waxman charged that the Army used an unusual process to award a five-year, $120 million contract to manage the center to a company owned by a former executive of Halliburton, the scandal-prone government contractor once operated by Vice President Dick Cheney.

In 2004, the Army determined that Walter Reed's federal employees could operate the medical center more efficiently than IAP Worldwide Services, which is operated by the former Halliburton executive, Al Neffgen, Waxman wrote. After IAP protested, the Army "unilaterally" increased the employees' estimated costs by $7 million, making IAP appear cheaper, Waxman said. Rules barred Walter Reed employees from appealing the decision, Waxman wrote, and in January 2006 the Army gave the contract to IAP.

According to an internal memo written by a senior Walter Reed administrator and obtained by Waxman, the decision to outsource to IAP led the center's skilled personnel to leave Walter Reed "in droves," fearing they would be laid off when the contractor took over. In the last year, Waxman found, over 250 of 300 government employees left the center. The lack of staffing put patient care "at risk of mission failure," warned an internal Army memo obtained by the congressman.

[NewJeffCT]

19. Thanks

What a surprise - another bang-up job from the folks at Halliburton.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. There is slime under every rock you turn over in Washington.

"Hohner" and Dignitude my @$$!

Oh Danny Boy the pimps the pimps are calling.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

13. remember his wife Marilyn?

from wikipedia

religious affiliation -

Brought up in an evangelical household, Marilyn Tucker Quayle is a Presbyterian. Her parents were longtime admirers of Colonel Robert B. Thieme, Jr., the founder and former pastor of Berachah Church in Houston, who was described in an Associated Press article as "known for unorthodox biblical interpretations and for verbal attacks on liberals, welfare recipients, homosexuals and others." As Marilyn Quayle said in an interview on NBC when the subject of her family's religious beliefs had become the focus of some media attention, "I grew up with my mother listening to (Thieme's) tapes. ... I have never listened to him on social issues. I didn't even know that he espoused any".



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she also went to HS with David Letterman, IIRC.

[Hubert Flottz]

18. She married a dumbass!

He can't even spell Walter Reed!

[SpiralHawk]

17. Image of republicon Dan Quaye's corporate archetype

This is what republicons get behind...forget their bleatings about being 'Christians."
Skull and Bones, and Cerberus is what they are really into...

[malaise]

20. Mind-blowing but true

Holy Shite.

[Marie26]

22. And Bush Tres. Sec. John Snow is the CEO

One big happy family.

[SpiralHawk]

23. Meet Senor Snow - another member of the corrupt republicon cabal

[malaise]

24. That needed a graphic warning

Never have I seen such a corrupt bunch.

[Marie26]

26. Eek!

That's one scary photo.

[BluePatriot]

25. IAP's CAO/CFO linked to Fluor & projects -- Iraq??

Fluor has a giant stake in Iraq Reconstruction, maybe 3rd behind Halliburton/Bechtel.

http://www.iapws.com/who/leadership.aspx

Chief Administrative Officer & Chief Financial Officer
James Jennings is a highly accomplished finance expert in the maintenance, engineering, and construction industry. Jennings was with Fluor Corporation for 30 years, and most recently was CFO of Williams Group International. He has also held senior level leadership positions in the development, implementation, and monitoring of accounting policies and procedures in addition to working directly in project accounting in the United States and internationally.

"project accounting" eh?

http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2007/01/leahy-details-war-profiteer-fraud-and.html

Fluor Corp., paid $8.5 million to the Defense Department in 2001 to settle charges it improperly billed the government for work benefiting its commercial clients, according to published reports. Fluor and AMEC created a joint venture that has $1.7 billion in contracts to rebuild Iraq's electricity, water, sewer and trash removal infrastructure.

(p.s. my co. subcontracted on this Fluor/Amec venture, and one of their field admin guys was pretty "creative" but he has since quit)

Best I can do!