- Paul McNulty as Deputy Attorney General. US Attorney
for Eastern Virginia Paul McNulty has been described as a GOP foot soldier.
However, while serving as US Attorney for Eastern Virginia, McNulty has
been a thorn in the sides of the neo-cons. He aggressively investigated
and indicted Israeli Pentagon spy Larry Franklin and two former top officials
of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). His investigation
of others involved in transmitting highly-classified intelligence to Israel
continues.
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- However, what is not generally known is that, aside from
AIPACgate, McNulty, like US Attorney for Northern Illinois (and Special
Prosecutor in Leakgate Patrick J. Fitzgerald), aggressively pursued another
case against a group of neo-cons involved in a criminal conspiracy.
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- As with Fitzgerald, whose investigation of Hollinger
(the neo-con news conglomerate that owns the Chicago Sun Times, Daily Telegraph
of the UK, and Jerusalem Post) and one of its principals, Richard Perle,
McNulty focused on a neo-con cabal involved in a fraudulent US Air Force
contract with Boeing to supply it with refueling tankers. The Principal
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition and Management Darleen
Druyun pleaded guilty to accepting employment from Boeing in return for
giving Boeing favorable treatment for billions of dollars in contracts.
Druyun served nine months in prison.
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- Fitzgerald and McNulty: Battling Neo-cons Together since
2002
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- A Senate Armed Service Committee investigation discovered
that former Air Force Secretary James Roche, another leading neo-con and
ally of Donald Rumsfeld, was actively favoring Boeing over a more competitive
tanker proposal from Airbus Industries. Rumsfeld tried to make Roche the
Secretary of the Army, but his nomination was withdrawn over the Boeing
scandal.
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- Another reported focus of McNulty's investigation of
the neo-con cabal at the Pentagon was one-time Chairman of the Defense
Policy Board Richard Perle. Perle was a strong advocate for the Boeing
tanker lease. In their investigation of the fraudulent Air Force-Boeing
tanker deal, federal prosecutors also reportedly focused in on a $20 million
investment by Boeing in Trireme Partners, LP., a venture capital firm run
by Perle.
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- McNulty's team was very aggressive in pursuing the Air
Force and Boeing principals and their associates. It was an investigation,
like that against AIPAC, that did not earn McNulty any points with the
neo-cons.
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- Patrick Fitzgerald is also focusing on Perle as a board
member of Hollinger International Inc. Fitzgerald and the Securities and
Exchange Commission are investigating Hollinger's former chairman Lord
Conrad Black for securities fraud. Hollinger Digital's $2.5 investment
in Trireme is also reportedly part of the investigations. Perle was head
of Hollinger Digital at the time. Fitzgerald recently indicted Hollinger
principal and former Chicago Sun Times publisher David Radler, another
leading neo-con, on fraud charges. Fitzgerald successfully "flipped"
Radler who is now cooperating with federal prosecutors in the expanding
case against other leading neo-cons.
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- Essentially, Fitzpatrick and McNulty have had the same
group of "connected rooted aspens" (to paraphrase Scooter Libby)
under investigation for a number of years. The promotion of McNulty to
number two at DOJ and Fitzgerald's forthcoming major indictments are all
indications that the White House is coming under "new management,"
management directed by Bush's father's team. The days of the neo-cons are
truly numbered.
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