"London's Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Jerusalem Post."
and
"Indeed, the roster of independent directors reads like the politically plugged-in guest list at an American Enterprise Institute dinner—not the managerial crowd you'd find at a Business Roundtable function."
Perles' mug just popped up on CNBC in connection with Black/Hollinger.
"The slate of directors standing for re-election last May included: the Honorable Richard Burt, the former arms negotiator and Reagan-era ambassador to Germany; the Honorable James Thompson, the former Republican governor of Illinois; and the Honorable Richard Perle. The Honorable Robert Strauss, the ambi-partisan fixer and former ambassador to the Soviet Union, served on the board for six years but left in 2002. Marie Josee Kravis, a respected conservative economist and the wife of financier Henry Kravis, was also a board member as of this spring. With the exception of Kravis, these directors were far more equipped to discuss regime change in Iraq than they were to discuss regime management in Conrad Black's empire. And they probably spent far more time discussing the former than the latter."
"Most of these more or less honorable folks were basically idle directors. They showed up at meetings, ate lunch, rubber-stamped corporate plans, and cashed their checks. Except for Richard Perle. Perle, according to the most recent proxy statement, is co-chairman of Hollinger Digital Inc., which makes venture investments on behalf of the company, and a member of the board's powerful three-person executive committee. On Nov.13, the Financial Times reported that Hollinger is now investigating a $2.5 million investment that Hollinger Digital made in Trireme Partners, where Perle is a managing partner. According to the FT, Perle also directed a $14 million investment into Hillman Capital, a fund controlled by Gerald Hillman. Gerald Hillman, a fellow member of the Defense Policy Board, is also a member of Trireme Partners. Who would have imagined that Richard Perle would use a quasi-public office as a platform for his personal interests?"
http://slate.msn.com/id/2091470/
Who would have, indeed! Save those that don't understand that this whole endless war on "terror" - actually it itself _is_ the terror, unleashed upon the world - is but a cover for a rapaciousness that follows in the spiritual footsteps of Nazi and Tennou imperialism. This latter - a much better model of the US today - began its work at a much earlier date, with Governor-General Terauchi Masatake's complete plunder of Korea about 100 years ago, using the Black Ocean gang of ex-samurais to do the dirty work, and which spread in successive waves over the next 45 years to engulf East Asia in a orgy of systematic looting and mass murder.
That's the road down which the USA is headed today, for reasons far more complex than GW Bush. For its progenitors such as Richard Perle, pillage is second nature.
-Brad