15 Sept 2003
L. Jean Lewis, the Whitewater crank who made big national headlines once upon a time. Amazingly, she has been appointed to an important executive position in the Defense Department.
salon.com/2003/09/15/jea…
L. Jean Lewis, the Whitewater crank who made big national headlines once upon a time. Amazingly, she has been appointed to an important executive position in the Defense Department.
salon.com/2003/09/15/jea…
The Bush admin has rewarded various Clinton pursuers from Starr's staff w/ federal patronage. (Brett Kavanaugh and John Bates, two principal authors of the Starr Report, were among the most fortunate. It was all part of what Bush spinners used to call "changing the tone.")
But Lewis is very special. Anyone who remembers the dramatic performances she gave before the House and Senate committees probing Whitewater will have to wonder how anyone in Washington would dare offer her a responsible position.
The scoop on her new job appears in Newsweek, somewhat ironically under the byline of Michael Isikoff. According to Isikoff, Lewis will join the Pentagon IG's office as chief of staff at a salary of $118k. She said top Defense officials interviewed her about her qualifications.
That's right: A normally nonpartisan, exceptionally important agency is being turned over to this peculiar lady, who used to peddle "Presidential BITCH" memorabilia, from a clerk's desk at the Resolution Trust Corporation in Kansas City. Obviously, she was executive material.
"With 1,240 employees and a budget of $160M, this office is the largest of its kind in the government," as he reports. "It investigates fraud and audits Pentagon contracts, including the billions of dollars being awarded in Iraq to companies like Halliburton and Bechtel."
Maybe that's why the Bush crowd put Lewis in charge of preventing Pentagon corruption. This isn't the kind of office where they want anyone who actually knows how to do the job. Dems should raise hell about this when asked for billions more for privatized defense functions
Schmitz also drew scrutiny for naming L. Jean Louis as his chief of staff. Louis was a bank investigator who gained notoriety for raising accusations, later discredited, against Bill and Hillary Clinton during the Whitewater scandal.
newsweek.com/donald-trump-j…
newsweek.com/donald-trump-j…
How Lewis ended (until she got hired by Schmitz)
https://twitter.com/nimkef/status/1437256302355431426?s=20
2016 Trump campaign foreign policy advisors
George Papadopoulos (who was originally with Dewey Clarridge on Ben Carson's campaign)
Walid Phares, boardmember Wikistrat
Carter Page
Joseph Schmitz
J Keith Kellogg Jr
washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoin…
George Papadopoulos (who was originally with Dewey Clarridge on Ben Carson's campaign)
Walid Phares, boardmember Wikistrat
Carter Page
Joseph Schmitz
J Keith Kellogg Jr
washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoin…
Jim Leach started as a staffer for Rep. Donald Rumsfeld and remained w/ him when Rumsfeld joined the Nixon admin. He resigned in protest of the Saturday night massacre.
As a Rep. for Iowa Leach was on the House Banking Cmte and worked on BCCI
As a Rep. for Iowa Leach was on the House Banking Cmte and worked on BCCI
https://twitter.com/nimkef/status/1437205321236221956?s=20
I wonder if these tapes ever got FOIA'd or still exist
https://twitter.com/nimkef/status/1437256305136263168?s=20
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