Perles and Swine - in the dirt with the Bush Boys

A nice little background on one of the movers’n’shakers of the Bush love boat, Richard Perle. He is a co-founder of a business which is involved in ‘homeland security’ technology, and at the same time works deep within the Defence Department. This is the perfect stereotype of the sort of person who should be kept WELL clear of public office (if it is to ever regain any sense of ‘ethical rigor’ with voters). The article suggests repeatedly that the only reason that Perle is not undergoing a serious conflict of interests is because he says so. I assume there are probably legal requirements in place, but that someone like him is doing that job at all places such requirements in a grey-area at best.
Richard Perle in the New Yorker

Posted by Ian at March 11, 2003 04:20 PM | TrackBack