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| Rumsfeld Sold Stakes in Pentagon Contractors |
| 2004-09-23 |
| EFL [...] Rumsfeld appeared to be under no legal requirement to sell the shares of any of the companies identified as Pentagon contractors, according to Alex Knott of the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington-based government watchdog. "It appears as though Secretary Rumsfeld wanted to hold himself to a higher ethical standard when it comes to public perceptions," he said. The form showed Rumsfeld accepted no gifts, reimbursements or travel expenses big enough to meet the government's modest thresholds for reporting. Among these are a requirement to report gifts from one source totaling more than $260. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #3 Rummy-you're the man! |
| Posted by: jules 187 2004-09-23 1:57:18 PM |
| #2 Rumsfeld's been a superb CEO of some huge, successful Fortune 500 corporations (Pfizer and one of Ted Forstman's manaufacturing companies, forgot the name-- General Instrument, I think). He doesn't need the money. He's been vastly more successful than any of the little ex-govt and ex-Congress influence-peddlers running around Washington. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-23 1:56:20 PM |
| #1 It's all some plot. He secretly has shares in Halliburton. How else would he be profiting from this illegal war... Oh, wait. I had My URLs mixed up. This isn't DU. Never mind. |
| Posted by: jackal 2004-09-23 1:46:19 PM |