Richard Perle is now in<$Ad$> yet more hot water over the fact that he wrote an OpEd in the Wall Street Journal supporting the tanker deal now at the center of the Pentagon-Boeing procurement scandal. The reason for the heated water, as we noted yesterday, is the fact that Boeing was a big investor in his ‘Trireme Partners.’
But tucked away down in the final graf of this article on the story in the Financial Times is this little nugget …
Internal Boeing e-mails portray a lobbying campaign the company undertook to have “friends on the Hill” and “think tanks” drum up support for the deal. One Boeing e-mail refers to an Op-Ed article in support of the company by retired Admiral Archie Clemins as being “ghost-written”.
I’d say what we might have here is another thread pointing in the direction of the never-truly-busted-open OpEd Payola scandal, which we’ll revisit soon.
