From the Times on Hollinger …
” Hollinger wasn’t a company where isolated improper and abusive acts took place,” said the report, largely written by Richard C. Breeden, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Rather, it said, Hollinger was “an entity in which ethical corruption was a defining characteristic.”
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The report was particularly critical of the audit committee of the board, which it said had not performed its duties to monitor what was going on. But the report saved its harshest criticism for Richard Perle, the former Reagan administration official and current member of a Pentagon advisory board. It said it did not consider Mr. Perle to have been an independent director and called on him to
return $5.4 million in pay he received after “putting his own interests above those of Hollinger’s shareholders.”
And in <$NoAd$>the Globe on Franklin …
Richard Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration and current adviser to the Pentagon, said the investigations are baseless and politically motivated.
“It’s pretty nasty, and unfortunately the administration doesn’t seem to have it under control,” said Perle, calling on the administration to defend Feith more vigorously.
And from a few weeks ago in the LA Times on the Chalabi arrest warrant …
Richard N. Perle, a former top advisor to Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and a leader of the so-called neoconservatives who embraced Chalabi and the war, said in an interview that he believed the warrants were part of an effort against Chalabi undertaken by the Iraqi government with the support of the U.S. government.
“I’m sure it’s been encouraged by the U.S.,” Perle said in an interview from Europe.
He said CIA and State Department officials have long opposed Chalabi and have convinced others in the government to move against him. Now officials in the White House oppose Chalabi as well, Perle said.
“It was those reports that led to a decision to destroy him,” Perle said, adding that he believed there was no basis to the reports that Chalabi passed classified information to Iran.
And from The New York Sun in May on the investigation into Chalabi’s passing US intelligence to Iran …
A scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Richard Perle, said, “I don’t believe he has ever been given top U.S. classified information, let alone anything of a highly classified nature….I believe the whole operation is politically motivated. The accusations, the embellishment of the accusations, I believe this is fundamentally malicious and politically motivated by people who became fearful that Ahmad Chalabi might emerge as a major figure in Iraq.”
Sic Transit …
