A THUMBSUCKING CONSPIRACY?: True or not, I have no idea, but the democraticunderground.com is all over the Walter Reed Army Medical Center story. This voluminous read connects a large $30 billion hedge fund, Cerberus Capital Management, to Vice President Dick Cheney, former Vice President Dan Quayle, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and several Republican Congressmen indicted for corruption involving kickbacks from defense contractors.
AND THAT is then connected to the Republican Congressional Campaign Commitee which supposedly received substantial contributions from managers running Cerberus, which, incidentally, apparently owns the second largest bank in Israel.
THIS LINE OF THINKING, somehow connects to International American Products Worldwide Services, which was awarded a $120 million contract to manage facilities at Walter Reed.
It may be a stretch or I just don’t get the soundbite…. It reads like the typical mind-boggling muscial chairs in the contracting world. Somebody PLEASE get me the Advil and sort this out for me!