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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
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