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</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/09/eastman-memo/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/09/eastman-memo/</a></div><div><div class="donation-text" style="font-style: italic; width: 668.031px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div>By now, you've read about John Eastman's secret memo outlining six points by which he believed the vice president could overturn the results of the 2020 election on January 6. I defer to <a href="https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124703" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">legal scholars</a> to explain the memo's legal absurdities. I defer to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-22/sure-republicans-just-let-harris-pick-the-next-president?sref=urpXDkpn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">political scientists</a> to explain why the memo represents forces threatening our republic.What I want to suggest is so plain I'm surprised that no one else has asked: isn't this evidence of a conspiracy to commit a high crime?News of Eastman's memo put the <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1439970037847273478?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">debate over democracy reform</a> into overdrive. The hope has been that the Democrats in the United States Congress, especially Senate moderates, will see the light. They must kill off, or seriously change, the filibuster in order to pass election laws that would not only reach or surpass the 1965 Voting Rights Act but also prevent a political party from pulling off a coup in broad daylight.While the Eastman memo should, for obvious reasons, put that debate into overdrive, I'm wondering if we're misplacing our hopes. It's not that I think the filibuster is good. It needs to go. It's not that I think new election laws would be bad. We need more, in a hurry. It's that laws require enforcement, and enforcement of the law is pretty much the only thing that's going to stop people who have no respect for democracy, principle, the Constitution, tradition or anything else. Without equal treatment under law, in the form of prosecution, I don't see why new laws would stop people who hold themselves above it.
We really need to acknowledge the elephant in the room before we pin our hopes for democracy on changing a Senate rule. We really need to acknowledge the reason it's possible, in a rule-of-law country, for powerful and power-hungry people to hold themselves above the law. The reason is so obvious as to be invisible, and because it's invisible few people are talking about it right now. It's because powerful and power-hungry people are in fact above the law. "No one is above the law"? Pish. Anyone with senses, and sense, can see that's not true.News of the Eastman memo only adds to what we already know. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/trump-pence-election-memo/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">According to</a> CNN, the plan was for Vice President Mike Pence to throw out "the results in seven states because they allegedly had competing electors. In fact, no state had actually put forward an alternate slate of electors — there were merely Trump allies claiming without any authority to be electors." That didn't matter, though:<blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.531px; background: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Pence would have declared Trump the winner with more Electoral College votes after the seven states were thrown out, at 232 votes to 222. Anticipating "howls" from Democrats protesting the overturning of the election, the memo proposes, Pence would instead say that no candidate had reached 270 votes in the Electoral College. That would throw the election to the House of Representatives, where each state would get one vote. Since Republicans controlled 26 state delegations, a majority could vote for Trump to win the election.
</blockquote>Two important points. One is about recognizing competing slates of electors when there were none. New laws in Georgia, Texas and other states now fill in what was missing in Eastman's memo. They allow for GOP-controlled legislatures to overrule election officials. They make room for assigning competing slate of electors when outcomes are undesirable. A future vice president might do what Mike Pence didn't.<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" />My other point is about the impression made by CNN's reporting, and by the new book all this news comes from by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa — that Donald Trump's GOP allies believed the US Constitution forbade a vice president from recognizing competing slates of electors. The impression is of a founding document that sets the rules. "You might as well make your case to Queen Elizabeth II," Mike Lee reportedly said. "Congress can't do this. You're wasting your time." That's a dangerous impression to have in a rule-of-law country in which powerful and power-hungry people are in fact above it.The Constitution is many things, but a set of unbreakable rules isn't one of them. It is whatever powerful and power-hungry people want it to be, when they want it to be and why. I don't know why Lee, Lindsay Graham and other high-profile Republicans were not all-in on the Eastman memo, but I do know the Constitution didn't stop them. I am confident, and you should be confident, that if they had reason to believe they could get away with it, they'd have found a way to make a coup by a political party in broad daylight seem "constitutional."The Eastman memo is putting debate over democracy reform into overdrive. Fine and dandy. But the memo is also why we shouldn't pin our hopes on democracy reform. The incentives to cheat, steal, lie and otherwise commit treason in the pursuit of raw political power will be with us long after we've made all our dreams come true with the death of the filibuster. New laws won't take away corrupt incentives. The only way to do that is prosecuting the laws we already have. The only way to do that is prosecuting the principle of equal treatment under law so that powerful and power-hungry people are not in fact above it.The Eastman memo is evidence of a conspiracy — a GOP conspiracy — to commit a high crime. And yet no one is being held accountable. No one will be held accountable as long as the Department of Justice is soft on high crime. Amid such lawlessness, why not give treason another go? By then, perhaps Lee, Graham and others will have found what they need to make a coup in broad daylight seem "constitutional."</div><div></div>=<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/3/10/310286/-">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/3/10/310286/-</a>
wikiJames Danforth Quayle (born February 4, 1947) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_president_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice president of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">vice president of the United States</a> from 1989 to 1993. Quayle was also a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. representative</a> from 1977 to 1981 and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. senator</a> from 1981 to 1989 from the state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana</a>.A native of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indianapolis</a>, Indiana, Quayle spent most of his childhood in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Valley,Arizona" title="Paradise Valley, Arizona" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paradise Valley</a>, a suburb of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Phoenix, Arizona</a>. He married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Quayle" title="Marilyn Quayle" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marilyn Tucker</a> in 1972 and obtained his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">J.D.</a> degree from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University_Robert_H.McKinney_School_of_Law" title="Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law</a> in 1974. Quayle practiced law in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington,Indiana" title="Huntington, Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Huntington, Indiana</a> with his wife before his election to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives</a> in 1976. In 1980 Quayle was elected to the U.S. Senate.In 1988, Vice President and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a> presidential nominee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George H. W. Bush</a> chose Quayle as his running mate. Quayle's vice presidential debate against Democratic candidate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Bentsen" title="Lloyd Bentsen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lloyd Bentsen</a> was notable for the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator,you%27re_no_Jack_Kennedy" title="Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy</a>" incident. The Bush/Quayle ticket won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election" title="1988 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1988 election</a> over the Democratic ticket of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis" title="Michael Dukakis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Dukakis</a> and Bentsen, and Quayle became vice president in January 1989. As vice president, he made official visits to 47 countries and was appointed chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Space_Council" title="National Space Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Space Council</a>. He secured re-nomination for vice president in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election" title="1992 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1992</a>, but Democrat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> and his running mate, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al Gore</a>, defeated the Bush/Quayle ticket.In 1994 Quayle published his memoir, Standing Firm. He declined to run for President in 1996 because he was suffering from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebitis" title="Phlebitis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">phlebitis</a>. Quayle sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2000 but later withdrew from the campaign and supported the eventual winner, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>. He joined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus_Capital_Management" title="Cerberus Capital Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cerberus Capital Management</a>, a private equity firm, in 1999.<div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Early_life,education_and_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life, education and career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#U.S.Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2U.S. Senate</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Vice_Presidency(1989%E2%80%931993)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Vice Presidency (1989–1993)</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#1988_vice_presidential_campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.11988 vice presidential campaign</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Tenure" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2Tenure</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Murphy_Brown" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2.1Murphy Brown</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Gaffes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.2.2Gaffes</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#1992_vice_presidential_campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3.31992 vice presidential campaign</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Post%E2%80%93Vice_Presidency(1993%E2%80%93present)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Post–Vice Presidency (1993–present)</a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Cerberus_Capital_Management" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.1Cerberus Capital Management</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6Electoral history</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Published_material" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7Published material</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Footnotes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9Footnotes</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Further_reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">10Further reading</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">11External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Early life, education and career</h2><div>...</div><div>The "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_Brown#Murphy_becomes_a_single_mother" title="Murphy Brown" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Murphy Brown speech</a>" became one of the most memorable incidents of the 1992 campaign. Long after the outcry had ended, the comment continued to have an effect on U.S. politics. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Coontz" title="Stephanie Coontz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stephanie Coontz</a>, a professor of family history and the author of several books and essays about the history of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">marriage</a>, says that this brief remark by Quayle about Murphy Brown "kicked off more than a decade of outcries against the 'collapse of the family'".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a> In 2002, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Bergen" title="Candice Bergen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Candice Bergen</a>, the actress who played Brown, said "I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless, but his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did." Others interpreted it differently; singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Tucker" title="Tanya Tucker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tanya Tucker</a> was widely quoted as saying "Who the hell is Dan Quayle to come after single mothers?"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gaffes</h4>Throughout his time as vice president, Quayle was widely ridiculed in the media and many in the general public, both in the U.S. and overseas, as an intellectual lightweight and an incompetent individual.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> Contributing greatly to the perception of Quayle's incompetence was his tendency to make public statements that were either impossible ("I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a>), self-contradictory ("I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy, but that could change"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a>), self-contradictory and confused ("<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Holocaust</a> was an obscene period in our nation's history. ... No, not our nation's, but in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">World War II</a>. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a>), or just confused (such as the comments he made in a May 1989 address to the United Negro College Fund. Commenting on the United Negro College Fund's slogan—which is "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"—Quayle said, "You take the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNCF" title="UNCF" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">UNCF</a> model that what a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a>).Shortly after Bush announced the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Exploration_Initiative" title="Space Exploration Initiative" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Space Exploration Initiative</a>, which included a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars" title="Human mission to Mars" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">manned landing</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars" title="Mars" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mars</a>, Quayle was asked his thoughts on sending humans to Mars. In his response, he made a series of scientifically incorrect statements: "Mars is essentially in the same <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System#Structure_and_composition" title="Solar System" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">orbit</a> [as Earth]....Mars is somewhat the same <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit#Examples" title="Astronomical unit" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">distance from the Sun</a>, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canal" title="Martian canal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">canals</a>, we believe, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_on_Mars" title="Water on Mars" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">water</a>. If there is water, that means there is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water" title="Electrolysis of water" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">oxygen</a>. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a>On June 15, 1992, Quayle altered 12-year-old student William Figueroa's correct spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" at the Muñoz Rivera Elementary School <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_bee" title="Spelling bee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">spelling bee</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton,New_Jersey" title="Trenton, New Jersey" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trenton, New Jersey</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[32]</a> He was the subject of widespread ridicule for his error. According to The New York Times<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a> and Quayle's memoirs, he was relying on cards provided by the school, which Quayle says included the misspelling. Quayle said he was uncomfortable with the version he gave, but did so because he decided to trust the school's incorrect written materials instead of his own judgment.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1992 vice presidential campaign</h3>In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election" title="1992 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1992 election</a>, Bush and Quayle were challenged in their bid for reelection by the Democratic ticket of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Arkansas" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of Arkansas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arkansas Governor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Clinton</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tennessee</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Senator</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al Gore</a> and the independent ticket of Texas businessman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot" title="Ross Perot" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ross Perot</a> and retired Vice Admiral <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale" title="James Stockdale" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Stockdale</a>.As Bush lagged in the polls in the weeks preceding the August <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Republican_National_Convention" title="1992 Republican National Convention" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1992 Republican National Convention</a>, some Republican strategists (led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_State" title="United States Secretary of State" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Secretary of State</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baker" title="James Baker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">James Baker</a>) viewed Quayle as a liability to the ticket and pushed for his replacement.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[34]</a> Quayle ultimately survived the challenge and secured renomination.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[35]</a>During the 1992 presidential campaign, Quayle told the news media that he believed homosexuality was a choice, and "the wrong choice."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[36]</a>Quayle faced off against Gore and Stockdale in the vice presidential <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate" title="Debate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">debate</a> on October 13, 1992.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[37]</a> He attempted to avoid the one-sided outcome of his debate with Bentsen four years earlier by staying on the offensive.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a> Quayle criticized Gore's book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_the_Balance" title="Earth in the Balance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Earth in the Balance</a> with specific page references, though his claims were subsequently criticized by the liberal group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_and_Accuracy_in_Reporting" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">FAIR</a> for inaccuracy.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[39]</a> In Quayle's closing argument, he sharply asked voters, "Do you really believe Bill Clinton will tell the truth?" and "Do you trust Bill Clinton to be your president?" Gore and Stockdale talked more about the policies and philosophies they espoused.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[40]</a> Republican loyalists were largely relieved and pleased with Quayle's performance, and his camp attempted to portray it as an upset triumph against a veteran debater, but post-debate polls were mixed on whether Gore or Quayle had won.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[41]</a> It ultimately proved to be a minor factor in the election, which Bush and Quayle subsequently lost.<h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Post–Vice Presidency (1993–present)</h2>Quayle authored a 1994 memoir, Standing Firm, which became a bestseller. His second book, The American Family: Discovering the Values That Make Us Strong, was published in 1996 and a third book, Worth Fighting For, was published in 1999.Quayle considered but decided against running for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Indiana" title="Governor of Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Governor of Indiana</a> in 1996. He decided against running for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1996 Republican Party presidential primaries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1996 Republican presidential nomination</a>, citing health problems related to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebitis" title="Phlebitis" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">phlebitis</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-broder-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a> Quayle moved to Arizona in 1996.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[43]</a>Quayle announced, during an appearance on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King_Live" title="Larry King Live" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Larry King Live</a>, his intention to run for president in 2000.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[44]</a> In April 1999, Quayle officially announced his candidacy for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2000 Republican Party presidential primaries" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2000 Republican presidential nomination</a>, attacking front-runner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> by saying "we do not want another candidate who needs on-the-job training". In the first contest among the Republican candidates, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Straw_Poll(1979-2011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iowa Straw Poll (1979-2011)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ames Straw Poll</a> of August 1999, he finished eighth. He withdrew from the race the following month and supported Bush.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-broder-42" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[42]</a> Quayle, then working as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_banking" title="Investment banking" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">investment banker</a> in Phoenix, was mentioned as a candidate for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Arizona" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governors of Arizona" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Governor of Arizona</a> prior to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Arizona_gubernatorial_election" title="2002 Arizona gubernatorial election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2002 election</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[45]</a> but eventually declined to run.In a February 2010 interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megyn_Kelly" title="Megyn Kelly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Megyn Kelly</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fox News</a>, Quayle announced that his son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Quayle" title="Ben Quayle" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ben</a> would be a candidate for the U.S. Congress, running for a seat representing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="Arizona's 3rd congressional district" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Arizona's 3rd congressional district</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-azcentral-46" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[46]</a> Ben won the election. In his first bid for reelection, due to redistricting, he faced off against fellow Republican Congressman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schweikert" title="David Schweikert" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Schweikert</a> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election" title="Primary election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">primary</a> and narrowly lost.On January 31, 2011, Quayle wrote a letter to President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barack Obama</a> urging him to commute <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard" title="Jonathan Pollard" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jonathan Pollard</a>'s sentence.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[47]</a>In December 2011 Quayle endorsed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mitt Romney</a> for the Republican presidential nomination.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-quayle-48" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[48]</a>For the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election" title="2016 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States presidential election in 2016</a> Quayle endorsed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush_presidential_campaign,2016" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jeb Bush</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-jebarizona-49" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[49]</a> After Bush failed to win the nomination, Quayle ultimately endorsed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2016_presidential_campaign" title="Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a>; he was later seen visiting with Trump at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower" title="Trump Tower" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trump Tower</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Manhattan</a> prior to Trump's inauguration.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-trumptower-50" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[50]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quayle_Vice_Presidential_Learning_Center" title="Quayle Vice Presidential Learning Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Dan Quayle Center and Museum</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington,_Indiana" title="Huntington, Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Huntington, Indiana</a>, features information on Quayle and on all U.S. Vice Presidents.Quayle is an Honorary Trustee Emeritus of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute" title="Hudson Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hudson Institute</a> and is president of Quayle and Associates. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Heckmann Corporation, a water-sector company, since the company's inception and serves as Chairman of the company's Compensation and Nominating & Governance Committees. Quayle is a director of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aozora_Bank" title="Aozora Bank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Aozora Bank</a>, based in Tokyo, Japan.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[51]</a> He has also been on the board of directors of other companies, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2_Sports" title="K2 Sports" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">K2 Sports</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmTran" title="AmTran" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AmTran</a> Inc., Central Newspapers Inc.,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[52]</a> BTC Inc.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[53]</a> and Carvana Co.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a></div>QB Behind Scenes Glantz 2014:
<h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; letter-spacing: -0.05rem; display: inline; padding: 0px;">Opposing the EPA report on second-hand smoke</h4>In the early 1990s, the tobacco companies made a major effort to block the EPA risk assessment that designated second-hand smoke a Class A (human) carcinogen.<a id="xref-ref-29-1" class="xref-bibr" href="https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/4/322.full#ref-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0;">29–30</a> ,<a id="xref-ref-56-1" class="xref-bibr" href="https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/4/322.full#ref-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0;">56</a> One strategy was to advocate new risk assessment standards that would make it impossible to identify second-hand smoke as a carcinogen.<a id="xref-ref-30-1" class="xref-bibr" href="https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/4/322.full#ref-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0;">30</a> ,<a id="xref-ref-57-1" class="xref-bibr" href="https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/4/322.full#ref-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0;">57</a> In August 1992 CSE sponsored a conference with an ‘over-regulation’ message, with other industry allies and it featured Vice President Dan Quayle,<a id="xref-ref-30-2" class="xref-bibr" href="https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/4/322.full#ref-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0;">30</a> who had previously expressed interest in the effort to change the risk assessment requirements.<a id="xref-ref-58-1" class="xref-bibr" href="https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/4/322.full#ref-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0;">58</a> Humber wrote to Philip Morris vice president of corporate affairs ‘to outline … unified and synergistic recommendations for dealing with the ongoing battle over ETS [environmental tobacco smoke, what the tobacco companies call second-hand smoke]’ reporting that ‘B-M was involved in both concept and execution of a strategy that made sure that media coverage of the [CSE conference's] message regarding over-regulation superseded the political noise surrounding the VP's appearance’.<a id="xref-ref-57-2" class="xref-bibr" href="https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/4/322.full#ref-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0;">57</a> Despite the efforts of the industry and their allies, the EPA released the report in December 1992 identifying second-hand smoke as a Class A carcinogen.<a id="xref-ref-59-1" class="xref-bibr" href="https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/23/4/322.full#ref-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: super; line-height: 0;">59</a>===

tobacco, nsa  KOCH

During the 1990s, the tobacco industry was facing a multitude of threats. CSE helped the industry oppose these challenges (see online supplementary table S4), including the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) second-hand smoke risk assessment (1992), the Clinton healthcare reform plan which included a tobacco tax (1993–1994), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) proposal to regulate workplace smoking (1994–2001), FDA regulation of tobacco products (1994–1996) and the DOJ RICO case against the tobacco industry (filed in 1999), as well as tobacco taxes (throughout the 1990s).

<h4 style="margin: 15px 5px 2px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Opposing the EPA report on second-hand smoke</h4>

In the early 1990s, the tobacco companies made a major effort to block the EPA risk assessment that designated second-hand smoke a Class A (human) carcinogen.<a id="xref-ref-29-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/20/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; position: relative; top: -0.4em;">29–30</a> ,<a id="xref-ref-56-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/20/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-56" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; position: relative; top: -0.4em;">56</a> One strategy was to advocate new risk assessment standards that would make it impossible to identify second-hand smoke as a carcinogen.<a id="xref-ref-30-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/20/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-30" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; position: relative; top: -0.4em;">30</a> ,<a id="xref-ref-57-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/20/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-57" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; position: relative; top: -0.4em;">57</a> In August 1992 CSE sponsored a conference with an ‘over-regulation’ message, with other industry allies and it featured Vice President Dan Quayle,<a id="xref-ref-30-2" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/20/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-30" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; position: relative; top: -0.4em;">30</a> who had previously expressed interest in the effort to change the risk assessment requirements.<a id="xref-ref-58-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/20/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-58" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; position: relative; top: -0.4em;">58</a>

Humber wrote to Philip Morris vice president of corporate affairs ‘to outline … unified and synergistic recommendations for dealing with the ongoing battle over ETS [environmental tobacco smoke, what the tobacco companies call second-hand smoke]’ reporting that ‘B-M was involved in both concept and execution of a strategy that made sure that media coverage of the [CSE conference's] message regarding over-regulation superseded the political noise surrounding the VP's appearance’.<a id="xref-ref-57-2" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/20/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-57" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; position: relative; top: -0.4em;">57</a>Despite the efforts of the industry and their allies, the EPA released the report in December 1992 identifying second-hand smoke as a Class A carcinogen.<a id="xref-ref-59-1" class="xref-bibr" href="http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/20/tobaccocontrol-2012-050815.full#ref-59" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; position: relative; top: -0.4em;">59</a>   glantz

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus_Capital_Management">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus_Capital_Management</a>

<h3>Cerberus</h3>

According to USA Today, Lewis, after attending a fundraiser for the New York-based hedge fund, Cerberus Capital Management, came to fund's aid by saving a defense contract that was slated to be eliminated. USA Today reported, "One day after a New York investment group raised $110,000 for Republican Rep. Jerry Lewis, the House passed a defense spending bill that preserved $160 million for a Navy project critical to the firm."<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-19-cerberus-cover_x.htm" title="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-19-cerberus-cover_x.htm" rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber">[55]</a> Lewis, who saved the program by passing it through his Defense Appropriations subcommittee, continued to receive PAC contributions from Cerberus and those connected to the fund like former Vice President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle" class="mw-redirect">Dan Quayle</a>. In 2004 Lewis was aiming to win the coveted Appropriations Chair and furiously raised money to spread around to showcase his abililty to provide cash for candidates.<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-19-cerberus-cover_x.htm" title="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-19-cerberus-cover_x.htm" rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber">[56]</a> His political action committee, Future Leader's PAC, paid out $407,000 to 69 candidates in 2004 with a third of that money originating from Cerberus. The previous year Future Leader's PAC pulled in $522,725 - a quarter of it coming from Cerberus.<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-19-cerberus-cover_x.htm" title="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-19-cerberus-cover_x.htm" rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber">[57]</a>

Lewis has denied any wrong doing declaring his innocence in a statement, "It is absolutely and unequivocally false to suggest that any decision on funding for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet was in any way based on a lobbyist's request, or as a favor to someone who was donating campaign funds."<a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=1568" title="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=1568" rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber">[58]

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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">J. Danforth Quayle</h1>

Dan Quayle was the vice president of the United States during the administration of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Herbert_Walker_Bush" title="George Herbert Walker Bush">George Herbert Walker Bush</a>.

Quayle is a member of the board of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedom_House" title="Freedom House">Freedom House</a> and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Project_for_the_New_American_Century" title="Project for the New American Century">Project for the New American Century</a> letter sent to President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_Jefferson_Clinton" title="William Jefferson Clinton" class="mw-redirect">William Jefferson Clinton</a>.

<h2>SourceWatch Resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Project_for_the_New_American_Century" title="Project for the New American Century">Project for the New American Century</a>, PNAC, original signer</li>

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<h1>Quayle's revenge. (two former Dan Quayle aides elected to Congress in 1994: Sen. Spencer Abraham and Rep. David McIntosh)(Notebook) (Editorial)</h1>

Article from: The New Republic | December 5, 1994 | <a class="tdn" title="Show copyright information">Copyright</a>

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The midterm elections have been variously characterized as the end of liberalism, the triumph of the religious right, the rebirth of Ronald Reagan, etc. But in the frenzy to make sense of the recent upheavals, one ominous resurgence has gone unnoticed: the second coming of Dan Quayle. These days, the prince of malaprop is biding his time within the confines of the Hudson Institute in his hometown of Indianapolis. But his former staffers aren't content …

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The Federalist Society is governed by a board of directors

     co-chaired by Steven Calabresi and David McIntosh, both of whom

     have strong ultra-conservative credentials. As a Yale law student,

     Calabresi founded one of the first Society chapters. Upon

     graduation, he went on to clerk for both Robert Bork at the U.S.

     Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for

     Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He also served as a special

     assistant to Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese III and as a

     speechwriter for Vice President Dan Quayle.

     McIntosh followed a similar path, co-founding one of the Society's

     first chapters at the University of Chicago law school. McIntosh

     also served a stint as a special assistant to Meese and as special

     assistant and deputy legal counsel to Quayle. After his 1994

     election to the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana,

     McIntosh became a frequent ally of then-House Speaker Newt

     Gingrich.[10] McIntosh's congressional voting record was

     extremely conservative, exemplified by his July 28, 1995 vote to

     prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing some

     sections of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.[11]

     McIntosh, who chaired a subcommittee on regulatory issues,

     confided to one reporter that he was surprised at the public's

     support for existing environmental laws.[12]

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Former vice president and presidential candidate James Danforth “Dan” Quayle, best known for his verbal gaffes and adherence to conservative family values while in office, chairs the global investments division of Cereberus Capital Management.<a id="ednref1" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn1" name="_ednref1">[1]</a> Quayle is also a trustee emeritus at the <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Hudson_Institute">Hudson Institute</a>, one of several neoconservative groups he has supported over the years.

Quayle entered politics in the early 1970s, serving in the Indiana Attorney General’s office and later for Governor Edgar Whitcomb. According to his official biography, his “political career began when he was elected to the United States Congress in 1976 at age 29. He was elected to the United States Senate at age 33. On January 20, 1989 he took the oath of office as the 44th Vice President of the United States at age 41.”<a id="ednref2" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn2" name="_ednref2">[2]</a>

His bio continues, "In his constitutional role as Vice President, Dan Quayle served as president of the United States Senate. On February 9, 1989, President Bush named Dan Quayle head of the Council on Competitiveness, which worked to ensure US international competitiveness in the 21st century. He made official visits to 47 countries, was chairman of the National Space Council, and served as President Bush's point man on Capitol Hill.”<a id="ednref3" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn3" name="_ednref3">[3]</a>

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) says that during his political career Quayle “enjoyed particularly cozy relationships with corporations, both within and outside of Indiana. …After four years in the House of Representatives, Quayle used his alliances with business to help him upset Senator Birch Bayh.”<a id="ednref4" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn4" name="_ednref4">[4]</a>

As head of the President’s Council on Competitiveness, he worked to scale back business regulations. According to CPI, “in 1992, Quayle’s group recommended eliminating many of the recoupment fees levied on defense contractors. The fees, which were more or less a tax on arms exports, were designed to recoup the research and development costs of new weapons systems borne by taxpayers. On June 19, 1992, President Bush adopted Quayle’s recommendation, saving the defense industry nearly $75 million a year.”<a id="ednref5" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn5" name="_ednref5">[5]</a>

Leading neoconservative figure <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/kristol_william">William Kristol</a>, editor of the <a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Weekly_Standard">Weekly Standard</a>, served as VP Quayle’s chief of staff, earning the moniker “Dan Quayle’s Brain.” Kristol appears to have had a strong influence on Quayle. According to journalist Jacob Weisberg, Kristol “saw an opportunity to promote conservative ideas in working for someone who he was convinced wanted to be an ‘activist’ vice president.”<a id="ednref6" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn6" name="_ednref6">[6]</a>

Quayle’s proclamation at Yeshiva University in 1989 that he would work to undo the UN’s “Zionism is racism” resolution had “Kristol’s fingerprints all over it,” according to Jacob Weisberg.<a id="ednref7" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn7" name="ednref7">[7]</a> “Speaking at Yeshiva on Human Rights Day, focusing on ‘Zionism is racism,’ arguing that anti-Zionism is a cloak for anti-Semitism, and quoting <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Kirkpatrick_Jeane_1926-2006">Jeane Kirkpatrick</a> on the U.N,'s loss of moral authority are all hallmarks of the neoconservative milieu in which Kristol is steeped.” Weisberg added.<a id="ednref8" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn8" name="ednref8">[8]</a>

Quayle has supported a number of neoconservative advocacy groups. After leaving office, Quayle joined the board of the neoconservative Hudson Institute, where he now is an honorary trustee emeritus. He served for a time on the board of <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Freedom_House">Freedom House</a> and, in 1997, was one of the 25 founding signatories to the now-defunct <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Project_for_the_New_American_Century">Project for the New American Century</a>, founded by Kristol and <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Kagan_Robert">Robert Kagan</a>. PNAC forged an influential coalition of rightist political actors in support of its calls for an aggressive “war on terror” aimed largely at the Middle East, including the invasion of Iraq.

In 2001, shortly after the election of President George W. Bush, Quayle was appointed to the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon advisory board then chaired by <a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Perle_Richard">Richard Perle</a>.<a id="ednref9" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn9" name="ednref9">[9]</a> Observers were critical of many of the appointees at that time because of their numerous ties to defense industry interests, arguing there was a clear conflict of interest.<a id="ednref10" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn10" name="ednref10">[10]</a> Perle eventually stepped down as chair after his various industry ties were widely discussed in the media. Other members serving with Quayle at the time included <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1203.html">Newt Gingrich</a>, <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/982.html">Ken Adelman</a>, <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1391.html">James Woolsey</a>, <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1100.html">Eliot Cohen</a>, <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1004.html">Richard Allen</a>, and <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1009.html">Martin Anderson</a>. Many of these men had risen to prominence in the Reagan administration after initially joining forces in the late 1970s in the <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/3301.html">Committee on the Present Danger</a> (CPD), a hardline anticommunist pressure group.

Quayle’s name resurfaced during the 2008 presidential race, when Sarah Palin was compared to the former VP. Wrote David Greenberg in Slate: “Indeed, the losing vice presidential candidate Palin most resembles is none other than Dan Quayle. Handsome, young, popular with the right-wing base, self-styled champion of family values, scourge of the ‘liberal media’ and embodiment of Heartland America, Quayle likewise confounded observers in 1988 when Bush Sr. tapped him as his No. 2. … Moreover, both Palin and Quayle, perhaps not coincidentally, enjoyed critical support from the journalist-operative Bill Kristol, whom Jacob Weisberg dubbed ‘Quayle's Brain’ when he served as the vice president's chief of staff, and who helped push Palin onto the <a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/McCain_John">McCain</a> team's radar screen. Quayle, too, we should recall, hit the best-seller list with his 1994 memoir, Standing Firm. And like Quayle, Palin seems destined—if she even seeks the presidency in 2012—to bow out early on, perhaps after the 2011 Iowa straw poll.”<a id="ednref11" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn11" name="_ednref11">[11]</a>

<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/lindberg_tod">Tod Lindberg</a>, a rightist scholar based at the <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Hoover_Institution">Hoover Institution</a>, has also compared Quayle and Palin. In a November 2010 article for the Weekly Standard, Lindberg provided a hypothetical midterm report on a McCain presidency.<a id="ednref12" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn12" name="ednref12">[12]</a> Regarding Palin, he wrote: “Would she be a second coming of Dan ‘P-o-t-a-t-o‑e’ Quayle, who never recovered from the initial impressions of him as a lightweight? There were, of course, calls on Bush 41 to dump Quayle from the ticket in 1992—not that doing so would have helped Bush in any obvious way; indeed, it would only have antagonized conservatives further. But Palin is Quayle-squared: She is a political phenomenon, polarizing and galvanic, capable of drawing and exciting a crowd as well as becoming a totemic object of fear and loathing for her opponents. It likely would have fallen to Palin to keep conservative Republicans from eating McCain alive, and if anyone could, she would have pulled it off. A Vice President Palin would be an even more fascinating figure in calculations of the future of the GOP than she is as an outsider phenomenon. We certainly know enough about her to say that she would not willingly retreat from the limelight, as Quayle mostly did after leaving office, only to reemerge in 1999 in a short-lived bid for the GOP presidential election and discover that there were insufficient reservoirs of goodwill toward him on which he could draw to make a comeback. Come what may, Sarah Palin would remain where she thinks a mama grizzly belongs, namely, in your face.”<a id="ednref13" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn13" name="ednref13">[13]</a>

Quayle has written three books: Standing Firm, a vice-presidential memoir; The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong; and Worth Fighting For.<a id="ednref14" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Quayle_J_Danforth_Dan#edn14" name="ednref14">[14]</a>
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<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/3/10/310286/-">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2007/3/10/310286/-</a><div class="story-intro story-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.125px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">rumsfeld and Top GOP Figures Profited from Privatization of VA Hospital, CIA ContractorsA large global hedge fund, Cerberus Capital Management (dba, Cerberus-Gabriel), is at the center of an emerging Pentagon and CIA contracting scandal that has the attention of three Congressional Committees.In each case, the companies under investigation have links to prominent GOP figures, including Vice President Dick Cheney, former Vice President Dan Quayle, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and several Republican Congressmen indicted for corruption involving kickbacks from defense contractors. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has also received substantial contributions from conservative fund managers running Cerberus, a virtually unregulated $30 billion hedge fund, which owns the second largest bank in Israel.This scandal involves the mismanagement of VA hospital facilities privatized during the Bush-Cheney Administration, as well as intelligence abuses by private CIA contractors.  MORE below the fold . . .</div><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: -15px; margin-left: -15px; letter-spacing: 0.125px;"><div class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; float: left; width: 690px;"><div id="read-more" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; content: " margin-top="margin-top" px="px" height="height" visibility="visibility" hidden="hidden"><div class="story-intro-divider" style="background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; width: 200px; height: 1px; margin: 35px auto 50px; clear: both;"><div class="story-body story-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The scandal involving Cerberus' holding, International American Products (IAP) Worldwide Services, awarded a $120 million contract to manage facilities at Walter Reed, is only the latest in a long line of serious problems involving the company and its officers. IAP’s President, Alfred V. Neffgen, was formerly Chief Operating Officer for KBR's government operations group, which was forced to repay tens of millions of dollars to the Defense Department for food and fuel overcharges in Iraq. IAP has other contracting connections with Dick Cheney’s Halliburton/KBR. Most recently, IAP bid on part of the Iraq oil reconstruction project as a partner with Halliburton/KBR. The Army Times reports about the Halliburton tie-in:  <blockquote style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 30px 60px; margin: 20px 0px; border: none; width: 660px; line-height: 24px; z-index: -1;"><a href="http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/03/Weightmansubpoena/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.armytimes.com/...</a>Walter Reed also awarded a five-year, $120-million contract to IAP Worldwide Services, which is run by Al Neffgen, a former senior Halliburton official.They also found that more than 300 federal employees providing facilities management services at Walter Reed had drooped to fewer than 60 by Feb. 3, 2007, the day before IAP took over facilities management. IAP replaced the remaining 60 employees with only 50 private workers."The conditions that have been described at Walter Reed are disgraceful," the letter states. "Part of our mission on the Oversight Committee is to investigate what led to the breakdown in services. It would be reprehensible if the deplorable conditions were caused or aggravated by an ideological commitment to privatize government services regardless of the costs to taxpayers and the consequences for wounded soldiers."The letter said the Defense Department "systemically" tried to replace federal workers at Walter Reed with private companies for facilities management, patient care and guard duty – a process that began in 2000.</blockquote>Cerberus owns, or had a major interest in, a string of now-bankrupt companies that had contracts with U.S. defense and intelligence agencies that were found to have a common pattern of large-scale fraud, security problems, and financial scandals involving GOP lawmakers and lobbyists.IAP is also tied-in with Halliburton/KBR on multi-billion dollar Iraq contracts. Halliburton is a major defense contractor once headed by Vice President Cheney, that has had its own history of problems with fraud and overcharges related to its management of sole-source projects in Iraq, particularly the multi-billion dollar LOGCAP contracts to provide privatized logistics, food and housing for US forces in Iraq, and the similar no-bid RIO contract awarded to KBR to repair and maintain Iraq’s oil fields and pipelines.Just months before the invasion, DoD designated Halliburton/KBR as the sole potential bidder for potential large-scale pipeline repair contracts. Four years after the initial invasion and occupation of those fields, Iraq is still not producing at its prewar levels, a threshold that would require termination of the RIO contract.On October 16, 2006, IAP Worldwide Services issued this press release: "IAP Worldwide Services, Inc. Team Submits Bid For LOGCAP IV Contract," which included this quote from former Halliburton/KBR executive Dave Swindle:"The LOGCAP IV contract is a major challenge," said Dave Swindle, IAP President. "Supporting the warfighter and the Army is a responsibility that allows no compromise. IAP and its team members understand the magnitude of this program and the issues associated with its complexity. We place a high priority on using our proven Business Operating System (BOS) to provide effective oversight and tracking to responsibly meet the customer’s needs from Day One. Through BOS we will act as one team through a management and business system that is completely transparent to the customer."<a href="http://www.iapws.com/Newsroom/Newsroom_details.aspx?id=51" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.iapws.com/...</a>Cerberus a Major Stockholder in Bankrupt MCI, Takes Over a Mismanaged $8.8B DoD Project to Create Secure Computer systems for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 30px 60px; margin: 20px 0px; border: none; width: 660px; line-height: 24px; z-index: -1;">By Matt Kelley USA TODAY The fundraiser, which took place July 7, 2003, and the subsequent vote illustrate the kind of relationship between congressman and contributor that's under increased scrutiny in the nation's capital._snipBoth Lewis and the investment company, Cerberus Capital Management, benefited from the relationship. Eighteen months after the fundraiser and the House vote, Lewis won the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee. He acknowledges that the fundraising efforts of Cerberus "played a very significant role" in winning the post. The ties between Cerberus and Lewis, a 14-term congressman from Redlands, Calif., have not been publicly examined before._snipCreated in 1992, Cerberus is a hedge fund, a type of private investment group that's not regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. ..._snipIn 2003, Cerberus owned more than $140 million in stock and bonds of the bankrupt telecommunications giant WorldCom, financial records show. Its stake in the company, which had filed for bankruptcy protection the previous year, was large enough that a Cerberus executive joined the board of directors of MCI, the company's post-bankruptcy name. ... MCI has been a major subcontractor since 2000 on an $8.8 billion project to build a secure computer network for the Navy and Marines. ...The committee report noted the program's cost overruns, schedule delays and management foul-ups in its report accompanying the 2003 defense spending bill, also sponsored by Lewis. That report called for more and better testing of the program before more computers were added to the network.(Rep. Jerry) Lewis (R-CA) himself had criticized the Navy-Marine computer project in October 2002, telling The Washington Post he was not satisfied with its progress. He also said he was concerned about MCI's involvement. "When you have a big piece of the pie in trouble, it just gums up a process that already has great difficulty," he said. ... Other members of Congress were pushing the federal government to ban MCI from any future contracts because of the $11 billion accounting scandal, which eventually landed former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers a 25-year prison term. MCI now has about $2 billion in annual revenue from government contracts, and the Navy project remains one of its biggest.On May 16, 2003, the House Armed Services Committee voted to cut 10% of the Navy project's $1.6 billion budget for the upcoming year. Federal lobbying records show that two months earlier, Cerberus hired its first lobbyist, the powerhouse firm Patton Boggs. ... The firm's lobbyists for Cerberus included Laurence Harris, a former FCC staffer who would join MCI's board of directors that August; retired Marine colonel John Garrett; and Marcus Dunn, a former aide to two members of the House Armed Services Committee. ...Cerberus paid Patton Boggs $1.1 million for lobbying from 2003 to the middle of 2005, the last date that records are available. Separately, Cerberus hired former senator Jake Garn, a Utah Republican, as a lobbyist for $410,000 over the same period, lobbying records show._snip<a href="http://cache.zoominfo.com/cachedpage/?archive_id=0&page_id=1738504194&page_url=%2f%2fwww.thesoapboxroadshow.com%2f2105.html&page_last_updated=10%2f3%2f2006+6%3a47%3a37+AM&firstName=Stephen&lastName=Feinberg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://cache.zoominfo.com/...</a></blockquote> Cerberus donated $100,000 at a single fundraiser to Rep. Jerry Lewis, fmr. Chair of the House Appropriations Comm., who served as intermediary to distribute money to fellow GOP lawmakers favored by Cerberus<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 30px 60px; margin: 20px 0px; border: none; width: 660px; line-height: 24px; z-index: -1;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-19-cerberus-cover_x.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.usatoday.com/...</a>Lewis' Future Leaders PAC gave $407,000 to 69 House candidates in the 2004 election. The Cerberus-related money was equal to nearly a third of that amount. In 2003, the PAC collected $522,725 — a quarter of it connected to Cerberus. Boustany's 2004 campaign got $15,000 in contributions from Lewis' Future Leaders PAC in three separate $5,000 contributions, according to Federal Election Commission records. Lewis also kicked in another $2,000 from his own campaign in two separate contributions to Boustany's 2004 campaign. Boustany picked up another $5,000 from Future Leaders PAC in the current election cycle.But, Boustany also benefited from the Lewis/Cerberus relationship in another way: Lewis also got Cerberus to help with his fundraising for the National Republican Congressional Committee, the arm of the GOP that gives money to House candidates. Lewis said he invited Cerberus executives to an April 2004 NRCC fundraiser he chaired that included a speech by President Bush.The NRCC got $70,000 in Cerberus-related donations during the first two weeks of April 2004, including $25,000 from Cerberus founder Stephen Feinberg, records show. "I had been doing this for over a dozen years, helping to raise money for our members," Lewis said. "Others (candidates for Appropriations chairman) began to be helpful with fundraising, but that had been a recent and newfound interest of theirs."Federal Election Commission records show that the National Republican Congressional Committee spent $72,620 in coordinated spending on Boustany's 2004 campaign and another $96,593 on independent expenditures on behalf of Boustany's campaign. Now, of course, the national parties raised millions of dollars for congressional races, so Boustany's share of that Cerberus/Lewis effort might well have been small through this particular channel. In any event, it was no where near as large as Cerberus's impact on Future Leaders PAC dollars.Wilkes employed a lobbyist named Bill Lowery who is unusually close with House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Lewis. Copley News Service conducted a three month investigation of their relationship:From powerful positions on the House Appropriations Committee, California Rep. Jerry Lewis has greenlighted hundreds of millions of dollars in federal projects for clients of one of his closest friends, lobbyist and former state Congressman Bill Lowery.Meanwhile, Lowery, the partners at his firm and their clients have donated 37 percent of the $1.3 million that Lewis’ political action committee received in the past six years...The Lewis-Lowery relationship, however, is remarkable for the closeness and mutual dependence...They’ve even exchanged two key staff members, making their offices so intermingled that they seem to be extensions of each other.</blockquote>Cerberus founder Stephen Feinberg is reported to have made particularly substantial donations to Republican organizations, with a 2004 contribution of $25,000 to the RCCC. Feinberg also contributed $2000 to the Senate campaign that year of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman. <a href="http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php?search=1&type=name&lname=Feinberg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">h</a><a href="http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php?search=1&type=name&lname=Feinberg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">ttp://www.fundrace.org/...</a>Both Cerberus and MZM were giving GOP House Appropriations Chairman Jerry Lewis large amounts of money for distribution to other GOP Congressmen through Lewis' PAC.  Cerberus appears to have been the senior partner in the scheme. Lewis was being investigated by the US Attorney for the Southern District of CA, Debra Wong Yang, who resigned on Nov. 10 to go to work for the powerhouse LA law firm that's defending Lewis. USA Lam, who had the MZM case, meanwhile was fired along with six others in a January purge of the US Attorneys Office that is just now receiving considerable attention.Laura Rozen speculates that Yang, upon learning of her impending firing last year, accepted a rather comfortable exit package rather than be fired as was here her colleague, USA Caroline Lam. See, <a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/jerry_lewis" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/...</a> /<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 30px 60px; margin: 20px 0px; border: none; width: 660px; line-height: 24px; z-index: -1;"><a href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/113005/fallout.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://thehill.com/...</a>In a plea agreement with prosecutors, Cunningham named four people who had conspired with him to commit the crimes. Although the plea agreement does not refer to the co-conspirators by name, they are widely believed to be Mitchell Wade, the former president of defense intelligence firm MZM Inc., Brent Wilkes, president of defense contractor ADCS Inc., Tom Kontogiannis, a New York real-estate developer, and an unnamed family member of Kontogiannis.Wade and Wilkes gave heavily to congressional Republicans in recent years, and now lawmakers must decide whether to keep the campaign largesse.Wade, Wilkes, Kontogiannis and others remain under investigation, according to a statement made by the lead federal prosecutor in the case, U.S. Attorney Carol Lam. Congressional ethics experts predict that one or more of the co-conspirators would be charged, especially because Cunningham has agreed to continue to cooperate with the investigation."Given that they were both described as co-conspirators in the plea agreement and that the agreement calls for former Rep. Cunningham to cooperate in the investigation, it’s very likely that both Mitchell Wade and Brent Wilkes will be indicted," said Brett Kappel, an ethics lawyer at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP.Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.) has returned money from lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the center of another congressional ethics scandal, while Republican Reps. Jeb Bradley (N.H.), Kenny Hulshof (Mo.), Heather Wilson (N.M.) and Steve LaTourette (Ohio) gave back contributions from DeLay after he was indicted in September.Republican Reps. Tom DeLay (Texas), John Doolittle (Calif.) and Jerry Lewis (Calif.) all received at least $30,000 in donations — either through their campaign committee or their leadership PACs — from Wade, Wilkes, their family members and their companies’ PACs over the past four years. These totals do not include individual contributions from employees of these firms. Early this year, Lewis became the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Before that, he headed the defense appropriations subcommittee. Because of these high-profile roles, Lewis often receives more donations than most House members. Doolittle also sits on the Appropriations Committee.But Cunningham, who was simply a member of the defense appropriations subcommittee, received the most — at least $66,000 during the same period.Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, received just over $28,000, as did Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.). Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.) was the recipient of $20,000.Wilkes is a prominent Bush fundraiser, earning a designation as a "Bush pioneer" in 2004 for raising more than $100,000. If Wilkes is indicted, he will be the third Bush pioneer, after Abramoff and Ohio fundraiser Tom Noe, to be indicted this year.Wade resigned from MZM earlier this year. The company was sold to a private equity firm in August.</blockquote>Senate Judiciary Committee Goes Into Closed Hearings to Discuss Firing of U.S. Attorney Who Prosecuted CIA Contractor CaseOn Tuesday, Judiciary Committee member Arlen Specter revealed publicly that the committee he used to Chair would be going behind closed doors to discuss still-classified details about the retaliatory firing of U.S. Attorney Caroline Lam, who had aggressively prosecuted the MZM Wade-Cunningham contracting case. (Source C-Span Radio, 03/05/2007, @ 7:20 pm).According to Specter, the Senate Judiciary Committee went into closed session to talk about an ongoing TOP SECRET investigation that stems from the Cunningham case. Three Hill Committees reached an agreement with the Department of Justice to receive files compiled by the U.S. Attorney’s office in San Diego, and are just beginning to hold public hearings into the unlawful dismissal of Lam. (See, generally, <a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/emanuel-tangles-wit..." style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://thehill.com/...</a> ; <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070112-9999-..." style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.signonsandiego.com/...</a> ; <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0605/S00125.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.scoop.co.nz/...</a>These closed hearings are most likely related to contracts that MZM had with CIA, including one that led to the falsification of data about aluminum tubes shipped to Iraq that allegedly were going to be used to reconstitute Saddam's nuclear program. That's right, those aluminum tubes, the one's that were falsely used by White House and Vice President to justify the invasion of Iraq.On background, it should be noted that Laura Rozen's WAR&PIECE column of December 11, 2005, "Wade, Wilkes and Bad Intelligence?" identified Mitchell Wade's MZM defense contracting firm as a culprit in faulty intelligence generation that led to the Iraq invasion.   See, <a href="http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/003244.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.warandpiece.com/...</a>A source cited by Rozen identified MZM as the private contractor cited for support of an errant CIA Iraq WMD assessment used to justify the Bush Administration's argument for war. An MZM analysis erroneously concluded that aluminum tubes ordered by Saddam Hussein were intended for use in a clandestine nuclear fuel enrichment program that didn't exist.  Rozen came up with the extraordinary finding that consultants working for MZM and other intelligence contractors staffed the Robb-Silberman Commission that investigated the faulty Iraq WMD findings.During testimony in the Scooter Libby trial, we learned that Valerie Plame was involved in the aluminum tube issue within the CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division (CPD), where she worked before being "outed" by Libby and others in the White House and Vice President’s office.<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 30px 60px; margin: 20px 0px; border: none; width: 660px; line-height: 24px; z-index: -1;">Dan Quayle is chair of new Leumi owner Cerberus-Gabriel, Interceded With SEC Head to Block Rules Governing Hedge Fundswww.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=645933 Dan Quayle is chair of new Leumi owner Cerberus-Gabriel Ha’aretz 11/16/2005 Cerberus is chaired by former U.S. vice president Dan Quayle. — The Cerberus-Gabriel group was led by Gabriel president J. Ezra Merkin, assisted by CPA Avi Berger, the general manager of the Kesselman & Kesselman accounting firm, and attorney Yaakov Ne’eman. Stephen Feinberg, 45, a Jew from New York and the wunderkind of the hedge funds world who, within 20 years, turned a $10 million fund into a holding company whose companies have combined sales of $30 billion a year, is the founder and manager of Cerberus Global Investment.<a href="http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/DocView.asp?did=1000029666&fid=980" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.globes.co.il/...</a> Experts: Ultimate owners of Leumi unclear Globes 11/16/2005 Banking sources: US investor disclosure regulations will cause Cerberus-Gabriel problems.— Ministry of Finance officials have declared a great victory in the Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) tender, but banking specialists are not so enthusiastic. They say that the victory wasn’t so great: the buyers (Cerberus Capital Management LP and Gabriel Capital Management) are too anonymous, their business isn’t transparent enough, and, most of all, the saga is far from over...these owners have specific problems in connection with operating a bank in the US, and they are looking for indirect ways to operate there, perhaps without a banking license.(Can't get that top link to work yet -- Globe link requires registration and installation of their software. Found these links from: <a href="http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:0b_1KEnb01UJ:www.wi..." style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://72.14.253.104/...</a> )In 2004, met with then The SEC Chairman William Donaldson a month prior to Donaldson's vote on whether to open hedge funds to periodic inspections:_snip Canary ScandalFormer U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, an adviser to Cerberus, met in June with Donaldson to discuss fund regulation. Craig Whitney, executive vice president of Quayle & Associates, denied that Quayle was lobbying Donaldson to weaken the SEC's hedge fund plan.Hedge fund executives also say the SEC should focus its resources on better protecting the 91 million U.S. holders of mutual funds. The SEC's move to increase regulation of the private investment pools has gained pace since New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer alleged 10 months ago that ``illegal trading schemes'' enabled some hedge funds to buy mutual fund shares at prices not available to most investors.Canary Capital Partners LLC and its managing principal, Edward Stern, agreed on Sept. 3 to return $30 million in profits and pay a $10 million fine. Since then, regulators have imposed more than $2.3 billion in sanctions against about a dozen companies including Bank of America Corp. and Alliance Capital Management Holding LP. _snip<a href="http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=afYb5XBe.P0A&refer=home" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://quote.bloomberg.com/...</a></blockquote>DONALD RUMSFELD - CERBERUS INVESTORDuring the tenure of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon awarded a large contract to the company at the center of the Walter Reed Army Hospital scandal.  Rumsfeld may have financially benefited from it along with other major GOP figures, including former Vice President Dan Quayle also invested or were employed by, or received campaign contributions from the same Wall Street hedge fund that owns the company.In his last financial disclosure before becoming Defense Secretary, Rumsfeld revealed that he held shares in Cerberus, a large NY Hedge Fund that acquired International American Products, Inc., the company awarded a Pentagon contract to privatize facilities management services at Walter Reed. <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_40/b3953110.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.businessweek.com/...</a>2005 - CERBERUS PURCHASES SECOND-LARGEST BANK IN ISRAEL, COMPLETING THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE ISRAELI BANKING SYSTEMCerberus group, which in 2005, acquired the second largest Israeli bank, Leumi Bank, completing a process of privatization of the Israeli financial sector pushed by the Right-wing Likud Party and its successor under the present Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert.   Cerberus holding Leumi Bank privatized Israeli banks - IAP privatized VA hospitalsStrange symmetry to this, isn't there? Perhaps, no coincidence to any of it. Here's why.You have to read a seminal neocon document written in 1997 for then-Israeli PM Netanyahu by the guys who went on to run the Office of Special Plans (OSP), Feith, Wurmser, and Perle. That paper, "A CLEAN BREAK: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" -- <a href="http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.iasps.org/...</a> -- lays out a battle plan for conquering the Mid-East, starting with Iraq and Lebanon as means to undermine and discourage Syria, and then, finally, a forced reorientation of the region’s enormous Shi’a population away from Iran and the elevation of the Heshemite Kingdom of Morocco’s King Hussein. The point of all this isn't just military conquest, and the elimination of regional threats, it's actually to set the preconditions for a PRIVATIZED Israeli economy, and the "clean break" is with Israeli's social-democratic past.  It is also meant to map out a profound shift in Israel’s relationship with the United States, away from a traditional client state that submits to bi-partsian Washington, with the an alliance with the ascendant GOP Right-wing, the authors planned to elevate Israel into a new regional Superpower.A Clean Break is a daringly blunt statement of those commercial, ideological and strategic ambitions:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 30px 60px; margin: 20px 0px; border: none; width: 660px; line-height: 24px; z-index: -1;">Israel has a large problem. Labor Zionism, which for 70 years has dominated the Zionist movement, has generated a stalled and shackled economy. Efforts to salvage Israel’s socialist institutions—which include pursuing supranational over national sovereignty and pursuing a peace process that embraces the slogan, "New Middle East"—undermine the legitimacy of the nation and lead Israel into strategic paralysis and the previous government’s "peace process." That peace process obscured the evidence of eroding national critical mass— including a palpable sense of national exhaustion—and forfeited strategic initiative.SNIPSyria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon, including by:SNIP* striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper.SNIPIsrael can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right . . . Since Iraq's future could affect the strategic balance in the Middle East profoundly, it would be understandable that Israel has an interest in supporting the Hashemites in their efforts to redefine Iraq.SNIPKing Hussein may have ideas for Israel in bringing its Lebanon problem under control. The predominantly Shia population of southern Lebanon has been tied for centuries to the Shia leadership in Najf, Iraq rather than Iran. Were the Hashemites to control Iraq, they could use their influence over Najf to help Israel wean the south Lebanese Shia away from Hizballah, Iran, and Syria. Shia retain strong ties to the Hashemites: the Shia venerate foremost the Prophet’s family, the direct descendants of which — and in whose veins the blood of the Prophet flows — is King Hussein.SNIPForging A New U.S.-Israeli RelationshipIn recent years, Israel invited active U.S. intervention in Israel’s domestic and foreign policy for two reasons: to overcome domestic opposition to "land for peace" concessions the Israeli public could not digest, and to lure Arabs — through money, forgiveness of past sins, and access to U.S. weapons — to negotiate. This strategy, which required funneling American money to repressive and aggressive regimes, was risky, expensive, and very costly for both the U.S. and Israel, and placed the United States in roles is should neither have nor want.Israel can make a clean break from the past and establish a new vision for the U.S.-Israeli partnership based on self-reliance, maturity and mutuality — not one focused narrowly on territorial disputes. Israel’s new strategy — based on a shared philosophy of peace through strength — reflects continuity with Western values by stressing that Israel is self-reliant, does not need U.S. troops in any capacity to defend it, including on the Golan Heights, and can manage its own affairs. Such self-reliance will grant Israel greater freedom of action and remove a significant lever of pressure used against it in the past.To reinforce this point, the Prime Minister can use his forthcoming visit to announce that Israel is now mature enough to cut itself free immediately from at least U.S. economic aid and loan guarantees at least, which prevent economic reform. [Military aid is separated for the moment until adequate arrangements can be made to ensure that Israel will not encounter supply problems in the means to defend itself]. As outlined in another Institute report, Israel can become self-reliant only by, in a bold stroke rather than in increments, liberalizing its economy, cutting taxes, relegislating a free-processing zone, and selling-off public lands and enterprises — moves which will electrify and find support from a broad bipartisan spectrum of key pro-Israeli Congressional leaders, including Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.SNIPIsrael’s new agenda can signal a clean break by abandoning a policy which assumed exhaustion and allowed strategic retreat by reestablishing the principle of preemptionSNIPIsrael’s new strategic agenda can shape the regional environment in ways that grant Israel the room to refocus its energies back to where they are most needed: to rejuvenate its national idea, which can only come through replacing Israel’s socialist foundations with a more sound footing; and to overcome its "exhaustion," which threatens the survival of the nation.Ultimately, Israel can do more than simply manage the Arab-Israeli conflict though war.SNIP</blockquote>The rush to privatize many of the functions of the Pentagon, including the VA system, is really the same strategy as that advocated by Feith, Perle and Wurmser in their strategic vision for Israel in 1997. Seize upon the opportunities created by a series of wars in the Mid-East that expand the military, and then privatize that economic engine.  That is at heart a fascist vision. That, in short, is what has been going on in the United States during the Bush-Cheney era.   It's military Keynesianism turned into a killing and maiming machine for profit.So, this is the Israeli state they ended up with, led by   Kadima’s Ehud Olmert, a Tool of Oligarchs ... Cerberus-Gabriel<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 30px 60px; margin: 20px 0px; border: none; width: 660px; line-height: 24px; z-index: -1;">Forbes Reinforces Claim That Kadima is Tool of Oligarchsby Ezra HaLevi(IsraelNN.com) According to the report, the business groups are controlled by the following families: Sami Ofer, Nochi Dankner, Shari Arison, the Cerberus-Gabriel consortium, Charles Bronfman, Yitzchak Tshuva, the Saban group, Lev Leviev, Matthew Bronfman, Tzadik Bino, the Borovich family, and Eliezer Fishman. The 12 families own 60 percent of the aggregate market value of all Israeli public companies (excluding the even larger Teva Pharmaceutical Industries), Forbes reported.The report goes on to say that the families have constructed their empires, which consist of Israel's largest companies, using organizational structures that have long ago been done away with in the Western world.The report explains that the groups have an inordinate amount of control over Israel's economy, political leaders and media due to the structuring of their holdings as pyramids – meaning several layers of companies each own others beneath them but are all beholden to the leading families. Such a phenomenon was eliminated in the US in the early 20th century through restrictions on ownership and the double taxation of dividends a company paid its owner company._snip <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/101391" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/...</a></blockquote>In that light, consider the article about the conflict surrounding the Serberus-Leumi group privatizing the Israeli banking system.  Bear in mind that Israel’s banks, including Leumi, had been bailed out by the government in the disastrous year of 1983, after Ariel Sharon led the IDF into an ill-fated and incompetently led invasion of Lebanon.  An "optional" war that resulted in the massive withdrawal of international capital, and a steep recession in Israel’s reputation and fortunes:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 30px 60px; margin: 20px 0px; border: none; width: 660px; line-height: 24px; z-index: -1;"><a href="http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:RhAPCyu8hiMJ:www.h..." style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://209.85.165.104/...</a> Leumi on the way to going globalBy Nehemia ShtraslerA historic decision will be made next week. The Bank of Israel will announce whether it approves the sale of Bank Leumi to the Cerberus-Gabriel consortium. This would mark the end of the long process of privatizing Israel's banking system.As early as November 2005 a tender was issued for the bank's sale, and it was won by Cerberus-Gabriel. The consortium offered to pay NIS 4.62 billion for a controlling stake of 20 percent in the bank - a very high price indeed. But the consortium failed to close the deal because the Bank of Israel did not approve its becoming a controlling partner.The decision will now be made by the Bank of Israel Governor, Professor Stanley Fischer, who has said in internal meetings that this is one of the most difficult decisions he has been asked to make. At those same meetings, Rony Hizkiyahu, the new Supervisor of Banks, said that he wished the problem with the New York branch of Bank Leumi were resolved because then there would be no obstacle to selling the bank to the consortium. Indeed, this is the only problem that is keeping Cerberus-Gabriel from Bank Leumi, the subsidiary in New York.According to American law, the Cerberus-Gabriel consortium will not be able to hold the bank in New York because it is invested in non-financial sectors. According to American rules, it is not permitted to have industrial and real estate holdings and also a bank - out of concern for possible conflict of interest.During those same internal meetings at the Bank of Israel a number of proposals were put forth for a solution to the problem. For example, to sell Leumi New York, and in its place set up a financial entity that could offer business loans but not be able to accept deposits or offer retail banking services. The problem is that such a financial firm will not operate under the supervision of the Federal Reserve (because it is not a bank). As for Israeli supervision, it will not be easy to keep an eye on a company that is situated so far away.SNIP</blockquote>Indeed, the deal went through and the regulatory obstacles removed to the privatiziation that is pushed by Prime Minister Olmert, one of the leading proponents of the scheme, as this article makes clear:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 30px 60px; margin: 20px 0px; border: none; width: 660px; line-height: 24px; z-index: -1;"><a href="http://www.fundstreet.org/2005/12/cerberusgabriel.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.fundstreet.org/...</a> December 13, 2005Cerberus-Gabriel hedge fund buys stake in Leumi Bank Israel is on its way to privatization. The banking sector is amongst the first ones to take a step in this direction. Bank Leumi was in the market recently and attracted bids from several players. Bidder names include strategic investors like Lev Leviev, IDB and Bill Davidson and also financial contenders like UBS, Deutsche Bank and Citibank. However the winner was an American Hedge fund, Cerberus-Gabriel.Cerberus-Gabriel has purchased 9.9% of the shares of the bank. The purchase of this stake was for approximately $500 million. The fund also has the option of buying an additional 10.01% in the bank. This will bring the total shares quantum to 20% and is roughly valued at $1 billion. This option of additional purchase has to be utilized with in the next one and a half years.Ehud Olmert, Finance Minister of Israel, is reportedly quite satisfied with the outcome. He feels that this is a positive development and will help the over all Israeli economy. He is amongst the top promoters of privatization move. In his statement he also mentioned that the purchase will ensure healthy competition between the banks and will definitely contribute a lot to the local market.Another person quite happy with the development is Yaron Zelekha, the treasury's accountant-general, who led the tender. He sees it as fulfillment of the promise made to the people of Israel about privatization of the entire banking system in 2005.</blockquote>CONCLUSIONBoth the MZM-Cunningham and Jerry Lewis cases involve the funneling of foreign money to the GOP through a neocon controlled global hedge fund, Cerberus Capital Management, that was dispersing money to a number of key GOP figures and organizations in various ways, including Bush, Rumsfeld, a number of GOP Congressmen, and the RNC. The case is also tied up with the Walter Reed scandal, and the effort to privatize many Pentagon and CIA functions, which resulted in catastrophic failures at both. <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x377023" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.democraticunderground.com...</a>Let's recap: a corrupt Israeli PM - has a stake in a corrupt Israeli bank- owned by a corrupt Wall Street global hedge fund - which owns a corrupt US defense contractor - which contributes to corrupt GOP Congressmen - who also receive money from another corrupt defense contractor - that defense contractor produced faulty intel under contract to a corrupt CIA Assn't Director - that faulty intel was used to justify a corrupt US Administration's case for invading Iraq - that was planned and executed by corrupt neocons inside DoD who had written a proposal years earlier to wage wars to privatize the Israeli economy.What a tangled web. One wishes Chairman Waxman’s staff and other Congressional investigators the strength of Hercules in taking down the Three-headed Dog, Cerberus, that guards the gates to Hell.<ol style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li value="2007" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mark G. Levey. Fair use applies. Acknowledgement: Some material compiled from a research thread at Democratic Underground.com, with particular thanks to "bobthedrummer" and "Emit", and other DU researchers: <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x377023" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.democraticunderground.com...</a></li></ol></div></div></div>=

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