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preservanation
07-04-2008, 01:30 PM
After Retirement, Clark Has Forged a Lucrative Career

By LESLIE WAYNE
Published: November 10, 2003


General Clark declined to be interviewed for this article, but his campaign provided information to The New York Times on his earnings and assets.

''Wes called me when he was leaving the military and seeking advice,'' said Mr. McLarty, who has also served with General Clark on the board of the Acxiom Corporation, a Little Rock data collection company. ''What you do when you're repotting yourself can be a tricky proposition. Wes was gathering facts to decide what to do in the next passage of his life, and a lot of arrows were pointing to return to Arkansas.''

General Clark received $15,700 a year in Entrust board fees, stock worth $10,000 and 44,000 Entrust options, half of which have no value.

Since May 2001, he also received about $60,000 a year as a board member at Sirva, the private company that helps move military personnel.

Those who have worked with General Clark, whether at Stephens or a half-dozen other companies, said his main value was as a Washington door-opener, helping them land government contracts and advising them what products the Pentagon might want.

He was also becoming increasingly involved with Acxiom, which was founded in Little Rock as a Democratic mailing-list company and which is now one of the nation's largest database processors. Link (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE3DD1139F933A25752C1A9659C8B 63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2)

CLARK'S FIRM WAS PREPARING MASSIVE SPYING ON CITIZENS

THE ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER has obtained a document under the Freedom of Information Act containing internal communications among Defense Advanced Research Project Agency employees considering data broker Acxiom [which Wesley Clark represented as a lobbyist - TPR] as a supplier of personal information for the Total Information Awareness program.

The e-mail claims that Jennifer Barrett, Acxiom's Chief Privacy Officer, provided recommendations that would help quell public scrutiny of the transfer of data from the company to the government: "One of the key suggestions she made is that people will object to Big Brother, wide-coverage databases, but they don't object to use of relevant data for specific purposes that we can all agree on. Rather than getting all the data for any purpose, we should start with the goal, tracking terrorists to avoid attacks, and then identify the data needed (although we can't define all of this, we can say that our templates and models of terrorists are good places to start). Already, this guidance has shaped my thinking."

The employee continues: "Ultimately, the US may need huge databases of commercial transactions that cover the world or certain areas outside the US. This information provides economic utility, and thus provides two reasons why foreign countries would be interested. Acxiom could build this mega-scale database."

Clark also reported, on his lobbyist disclosure forms, that he promoted Acxiom to the Senate and the executive office of the president. According an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette report, he even met personally with Vice President Richard Cheney.

But both Moore and McGovern, who are known as peaceniks, need to explain a few things. First, there's the war in Yugoslavia. As Supreme Commander of NATO during the Kosovo war, Clark was ultimately responsible for targeting the bridges and electrical grids of Yugoslavia and for using cluster bombs and depleted uranium. (I asked him at a press conference in Madison, Wisconsin, this fall about depleted uranium. He said: "There is no indication it causes any trouble," except perhaps if you put something in your mouth that is covered with it.). During the Kosovo war, Clark also repeatedly targeted Yugoslavia's TV headquarters, killing twenty people there.

"At least 1,200 civilians have died in NATO accidents," Steven Erlanger of The New York Times reported at the end of the war. On May 27, 1999, The Wall Street Journal ran an article that said: "On the sensitive topic of civilian casualties, Gen. Clark emphasized that no air war was perfect and that, to prevail, the (NATO) ambassadors should brace themselves for more collateral damage."

During the war, Clark also fobbed off the problems facing the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Kosovo whom the Serbs predictably forced out after NATO started the bombing. Refusing to drop relief supplies to the refugees, Clark said, "Our view on this is that, frankly, this is a problem that's caused by President Milosevic. He needs to address this problem." http://prorev.com/clark.htm

preservanation
07-04-2008, 01:31 PM
...Second, there is Clark's support for the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, which has trained some of the most notorious human rights abusers in the hemisphere.

From June 1996 to July 1997, General Clark served as Commander of the US Southern Command,...Pentagon officials admitted that SOA manuals used from 1982 to 1991 advocated the use of torture, extortion, and extra-judical executions against dissidents in Latin America. The New York Times wrote "an institution so clearly out of tune with American values should be shut down without further delay."

Meanwhile, questions about Clark's past continue to dog the former NATO commander. For one thing, he has strongly supported the School of Americas, a U.S. military training school that taught scores of Latin American army officers the techniques of modern warfare, including - according to a declassified Pentagon report-off-the-books skills like execution, torture, and kidnapping.

The Washington Post reported in January 2002 that Clark attended a meeting at the Department of Transportation, at which he described "a system that would combine personal data from Acxiom with information about the reservations and seating records of every U.S. airline passenger" to detect "subtle signs of terrorist intentions."

Clark offered praise for the courage of President Bush's action. "President Bush and Tony Blair should be proud of their resolve in the face of so much doubt," Clark wrote on April 10, 2003. "Can anything be more moving than the joyous throngs swarming the streets of Baghdad? Memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the defeat of Milosevic in Belgrade flood back. Statues and images of Saddam are smashed and defiled.". . .

"Every president has deployed forces as necessary to take action. He's done so without multilateral support if necessary. He's done so in advance of conflict if necessary. . .

Clark continued: "There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat... Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001. . .

Clark said, he favors amending the Constitution to ban flag burning, the Associated Press reports.

[Wesley Clark] became the first allied commander to run and win a war -- and still lose his command. Cohen, the secretary of defense, selected Clark for the post over the objections of the Army, yet the two became locked in a conflict over the direction of the war. It was planned as a strategic air campaign against the Serbs, but Clark pushed a more aggressive strategy - a ground invasion and the use of low-flying Apache helicopters. Cohen adamantly resisted.


KELLY PATRICIA O'MEARA, INSIGHT MAGAZINE - Although Clark never publicly has discussed his role in the attack on the Branch Davidians and did not respond to Insight's requests for an interview to discuss his role at Waco, there are indisputable facts that confirm he had knowledge of the grim plans to bring the standoff to an end. Between August 1992 and April 1994, Clark was commander of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Army's III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas. According to a report by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the list of military personnel and equipment used at Waco included: 15 active-duty military personnel, 13 Texas National Guard personnel, nine Bradley fighting vehicles, five combat-engineer vehicles, one tank-retrieval vehicle and two M1A1 Abrams tanks. Additionally, Fort Hood reportedly was used for much of the training for the bloody attack on the Davidians and their children.

The question for Clark," explains Fitton, "is a fair one in terms of corruption. Many Americans still are troubled by what occurred at Waco, and we're very interested in his role. Many people are going to ask what are his views of the force [attorney general] Janet Reno used at Waco and they'll want to know if he, were he to become president of the United States, would authorize that kind of force again. Specifically, was Gen. Clark comfortable allowing forces and equipment under his command to participate in a police raid or, at best, a hostage situation? People are going to want to know these things."

If Clark was singularly unsuccessful in his high-altitude air war on the Serb forces, which he had predicted would bring victory in a few days, it caused a lot of civilian casualties. Besides blowing up the Chinese Embassy, some civilian convoys, a lot of radio and TV facilities, and an amazing number of chicken coops, one incident stands out. A train loaded with civilians was crossing a bridge near Grdelica when it was attacked by NATO F-15s. A dozen were killed and many wounded.

Cisneros says Clark "just outright lied" when confronted, and denied to Cisneros that he was seeking the job, which did go to Clark. "I worry about his ethical standards regarding honesty and forthrightness," Cisneros said.

Said Four Star General Shelton. "I've known Wes for a long time. I will tell you the reason he came out of Europe early had to do with integrity and character issues, things that are very near and dear to my heart. I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat. I'll just say Wes won't get my vote."

JOHN CHUCKMAN YELLOW TIMES - The Perfumed Prince declared himself a Democrat. Many Americans may not recognize the nickname bestowed upon Wesley Clark by British colleagues as he strutted around Serbia with his set of platinum-plated general's stars carefully repositioned each day to a freshly-starched and ironed camouflage cap, wafting a thick vapor trail of cologne.

The former general scents, through the mists of his musky cologne, an opportunity for service. Hell, we're at war, and any real general is better than a former male cheerleader from Andover who cross-dresses as a combat pilot. snip (http://prorev.com/clark.htm)

tecoyah
07-04-2008, 01:47 PM
Is all this negativity because he has spoken out against Bush?

The old "Attack the Messenger" Ploy thats on page 2 of the GOP handbook?


Yeah, I never much cared for Clark, but whats the motivation behind this post...attempt to discredit?

If so...I think you are failing.

PostmodernProphet
07-04-2008, 01:54 PM
Is all this negativity because he has spoken out against Bush?

no, I think the right has been negative about Clark for years......

by the way, isn't that the same company that Bill Clinton works for?......

preservanation
07-04-2008, 02:03 PM
no, I think the right has been negative about Clark for years......so was the left and the MSM during the 2004 primaries.

by the way, isn't that the same company that Bill Clinton works for?......Yup, PMP.

Go to the last link.
It's frikkin amazing!

PostmodernProphet
07-04-2008, 02:07 PM
yeah, I recall reading it early in the primary campaign.....I got a kick out of Clinton's response when a reporter asked him about the company's tactics....his answer was that he really wasn't sure what the company did.......this from an employer that pays him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year......

PostmodernProphet
07-04-2008, 02:40 PM
check this out....

One of Acxiom's biggest cheerleaders was Hillary Clinton. According to Morgan, Clinton expressed support for a system that would gather detailed data on every passenger during the ticketing process. After a visit with Clinton in November 2001, Morgan reported to his staff: "It was very gratifying when the president of one of Lockheed Martin's companies approached Jerry [Jones] and me after one meeting and said she had heard from Senator Clinton that Acxiom was a company she really needed to get to know."
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/23/362182/index.htm

The company is called Acxiom Corp. of Conway, Ark. Formerly it was called Alltel, and before that Systematics
http://prorev.com/whtwtrr.htm

Systematics was represented by C.J. Giroir, Webster Hubbell, and Hillary Rodham Clinton of the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock
http://www.alamo-girl.com/0457.htm

BoogyMan
07-04-2008, 05:37 PM
Is all this negativity because he has spoken out against Bush?

The old "Attack the Messenger" Ploy thats on page 2 of the GOP handbook?


Yeah, I never much cared for Clark, but whats the motivation behind this post...attempt to discredit?

If so...I think you are failing.

You don't see the hypocrisy of this position at all, do you?

Milton Bradley
07-04-2008, 10:09 PM
I also find it a little odd that "Conservatives" are attempting to out a Democrat for his support for the School of the Americas, which is known for spitting out Conservative war mongers.


Yeah, that's really "outing" them. ( as part of the bipartisan lie. )


This amounts to shooting ones self in the foot, as far as I'm concerned.


:lmao: