Outsourcing On Tuesday I

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On Tuesday I reported this odd fact that the Executive Office of the President (EOP) — i.e., the administrative designation for the White House — signed three contracts with Cunningham conspirator Mitchell Wade’s company to provide ‘intelligence services.’

Remember too that this was shortly after Wade registered a non-profit called the ‘Iranian Democratization Foundation.’

All of this was happening in the summer of 2004. And by that time the EOP had already gotten in a decent amount of trouble running its own intelligence operations.

What am I talking about? Well the Office of the Vice President is housed within EOP. And Cheney’s office had been running all sorts of shenanigans through the Pentagon, particularly through Doug Feith’s Office of Special Plans.

Was this a way to do some reprise of the earlier Iraq-related operations, but off the books, or at least further distanced from possible congressional or journalistic scrutiny?

Given all we know now about Mitchell Wade those three contracts stick out like a sore thumb. Even with the White House’s penchant for secrecy at all times and in all places, there should really be some pressure for them to provide some explanation of what those contracts were for.

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