How many here know who Dov Zackheim is?

[tinanator]

Something tells me he is an important story that should be widely told before the election.

[seemslikeadream]

1. I do

DoD Statement on Jack Shaw and the Iraq Telecommunications Contract

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=743997

Dr. Zakheim



Dov S. Zakheim was sworn in as the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Defense on May 4, 2001. Dr. Zakheim has previously served in a number of key positions in government and private business. Most recently, he was corporate vice president of System Planning Corp., a technology, research and analysis firm based in Arlington, Va. He also served as chief executive officer of SPC International Corp., a subsidiary specializing in political, military and economic consulting. During the 2000 presidential campaign, he served as a senior foreign policy advisor to then-Governor Bush.

From 1985 until March 1987, Dr. Zakheim was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Planning and Resources in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy). In that capacity, he played an active role in the Department's system acquisition and strategic planning processes. Dr. Zakheim held a variety of other DoD posts from 1981 to 1985. Earlier, he was employed by the National Security and International Affairs Division of the Congressional Budget Office.

Dr. Zakheim has been a participant on a number of government, corporate, non-profit and charitable boards. His government service includes terms on the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; the Task Force on Defense Reform (1997); the first Board of Visitors of the Department of Defense Overseas Regional Schools (1998); and the Defense Science Board task force on "The Impact of DoD Acquisition Policies on the Health of the Defense Industry" (2000).

A 1970 graduate of Columbia University with a bachelor's in government, Dr. Zakheim also studied at the London School of Economics. He earned his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, where he was graduate fellow in programs of both the National Science Foundation and Columbia College, and then a research fellow. Dr. Zakheim has been an adjunct professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University, Columbia University and Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., where he was presidential scholar.
http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/zakheim_bio.html

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Former NYC councilman...

and utter whackjob?

On edit: I guess not.

[KamaAina]

15. That'd be Dov *Hikind*

Utter whackjob indeed, but (unlike Zakheim) of no importance to the impending doom of the Bush*/PNAC cabal.

[tinanator]

3. the scary part is buried here

http://www.sysplan.com/

[seemslikeadream]

4. bingo and tell us Dov where the hell is the 2.3 trillion?

Dov S. Zakheim to Resign from the Department of Defense
March 24, 2004
In this position, Zakheim initiated an enterprise architecture to achieve a vision of simpler budget processes, activity-based costing, and a clean audit by 2007. He oversaw three Department of Defense budgets, each totaling more than $300 billion, and recently proposed a 2005 budget of $401.7 billion. He played a leading role in raising in excess of $13 billion for the reconstruction of Iraq, and walked through six wartime supplementals in support of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. He further created the Defense Business Board and worked closely with the Office of Management and Budget and the Government Accounting Office on financial management affairs.

“I am proud to have been part of President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld's senior Pentagon team for the past three years,” said Zakheim reflecting on his tour. “It has been an exhilarating, albeit extremely demanding experience. Even as we have addressed the many concerns arising out of the War on Terror and Operations Enduring Freedom, Noble Eagle and Iraqi Freedom, including winning both military and financial support from the international community for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have also tended to ongoing budget needs to support our forces and defense civilians at home and abroad. We have also made great strides in rectifying the department's antiquated financial management system; we continue to anticipate that DoD will receive clean audits in the not too distant future.”

Regarding Zakheim’s resignation, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, “Dov Zakheim has been a cornerstone to the Department of Defense over the past three years. He has been a leader in helping transform the Department to better address the needs of the 21st century. I thank him for his commitment and his counsel. He will be missed.”

Zakheim was sworn in to his current position May 4, 2001. Prior to that, his government service included a number of key positions, to include from 1985 until March 1987, as the deputy under secretary of defense for planning and resources in the office of the under secretary of defense (policy). He also held a variety of other Department of Defense posts from 1981-1985 and served with the National Security and International Affairs Division of the Congressional Budget Office.

During other periods of Zakheim’s career, he served as a senior foreign policy advisor to then-Gov. Bush, during the 2000 presidential campaign. Prior to that, he was the corporate vice president of System Planning Corporation (SPC), a technology, research and analysis firm. He also served as chief executive officer of SPC International Corp., a subsidiary specializing in political, military and economical consulting.

http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+article+story...

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Minnery, a former Marine turned whistle-blower, is risking his job by speaking out for the first time about the millions he noticed were missing from one defense agency's balance sheets. Minnery tried to follow the money trail, even crisscrossing the country looking for records.

"The director looked at me and said 'Why do you care about this stuff?' It took me aback, you know? My supervisor asking me why I care about doing a good job," said Minnery.

He was reassigned and says officials then covered up the problem by just writing it off.

"They have to cover it up," he said. "That's where the corruption comes in. They have to cover up the fact that they can't do the job."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/m...

[Nordic]

5. oh. my. god.

What just amazes me and continues to amaze me is this:

the closer you look, the more you study, this administration ...

The smellier and more godawfully, unimaginably corrupt, it is revealed to be.

Holy shit.

[tinanator]

8. buried too deeply I think

you get a lot of weird results searching this name, but the real story is closer to this hit
http://www.canadiancontent.net/forums/about1314.html

[tinanator]

10. kick for the working class DU'er

be sure you know who this guy is

[Hornito]

6. Rabbi Zackheim is another dual-loyalist traitor. I'll bet some of

the trillions found their way to Israel. He's a part of the PNAC/Neonazicons, and in league with Perle, Wolfowitz, Libby, Feith, Abrams, et al. They're all dual-loyalist traitors, who should be rounded up, charged with treason, tried, convicted, and, dare I say it?, hung!

[tinanator]

7. I'll take that bet

Im a loser.

[seemslikeadream]

9. I know for sure he gave $28 million to Israel

I'll look for the link

[Minstrel Boy]

11. A few reasons why Zakheim may be a prime suspect:

He had access to information pertaining to the structural integrity and the blueprints of the World Trade Center through his work with Tridata Corporation in the investgation of the bombing of the WTC in 1993.

He had access to advanced remote control technology through his work at System Planning Corporation (SPC).

He held the strategic position of the Pentagon's comptroller.

He had access to Boeing aircraft through a lease deal he brokered while working at the Pentagon.

As a member of PNAC, he belongs to the core group of politically radical Straussian Neo-Conservatives, who believed a new Pearl Harbor would be needed to accelerate their agenda for empire and a redrawn map of the Middle East.

More here.

[leesa]

12. I do! I do! Scratch this evil man's surface and the 9-11 plot will come

boiling out.

[Karenina]

13. Bingo!

:kick:

[Nadienne]

14. One bite at a time...

...There's lots to chew.

So, Zackheim was with a company that has made remote control devices that can control the flight of certain types of airplanes...

Such a device might offer a safe alternative to ending a hijacking: it gives the government the upper hand - control of the plane, and control of how fast a decision (for a hijacker to blow up the plane) must be made.

There are only two reasons that I can think of for keeping such a device secret, if indeed such a device exists (which I do not doubt):

- to use as a "secret weapon" against "terra" (even though knowledge of the existence of such a device might actually prevent hijackings); or

- the device was created for use as a tool for assassinations, sabotage, and other tragedies. If the public knows about a device the government has that can control a plane remotely, and if the device explains the otherwise unexplainable about tragedies like 9/11 or Wellstone's plane crash, suddenly the cause behind those tragedies will be more sinister. But if such a device exists and the public doesn't know, the possibility doesn't even get explored. Especially if those who are in the position of keeping secret such a device also have their involvement with a tragedy to hide.

[seemslikeadream]

16. Dr. Dov S. Zakheim CEO, Systems Planning Corporation International

Dr. Dov S. Zakheim
CEO, Systems Planning Corporation International

Dov S. Zakheim is Corporate Vice President of System Planning Corporation (SPC), a high technology, research, analysis, and manufacturing firm based in Arlington, Virginia. He is also Chief Executive Officer of SPC International Corporation, a subsidiary of SPC that specializes in political, military and economic consulting, and international sales and analysis. In addition, Dr. Zakheim serves as Consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. He is an Adjunct Scholar of the Heritage Foundation, and a Senior Associate of the Center for International and Strategic Studies.

From 1985 until March 1987, Dr. Zakheim was Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Planning and Resources. In that capacity, he played an active role in the Department's system acquisition and strategic planning processes. Dr. Zakheim also guided Department of Defense policy in a number of international economic fora including the US-USSR Commercial Commission; the Caribbean Basin Initiative; and the Canadian-US Free Trade Agreement. He also successfully negotiated numerous arms cooperation agreements with various US allies.


A graduate of Columbia University, New York, where he earned his B.A., Surnma Cum Laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Zakheim also studied at the London School of Economics. Dr. Zakheim earned his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, a Columbia College Kellett Fellow, and a post-doctoral Research Fellow. He has served as Adjunct Professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University and at Columbia University. He is currently Presidential Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

Dr. Zakheim served for two terms as a Presidential appointee to the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. In 1997 he was appointed by Secretary of Defense Cohen to the Task Force on Defense Reform. In May 1999 Secretary Cohen named him to the first Board of Visitors of the Department of Defense Overseas Regional Schools.

Dr. Zakheim writes, lectures, and provides radio and television commentary on national defense and foreign policy issues both domestically and internationally, including appearances on major US network news telecasts, McNeil-Lehrer Newshour, Larry King Live, BBC Arab and World Service. and Israeli, Swedish, and Japanese television. He is an editorial board member of Israel Affairs and of The Round Table (the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs), and serves on review panels for the Wilson Center for International Scholars, the United States Institute of Peace, and the U.S. Naval Institute. He is the author of Flight of the Lavi: Inside a US.-Israeli Crisis (Brassey's, 1996), Congress and National Security in the Post Cold War Era (The Nixon Center, 1998), and numerous articles and chapters in books. Dr. Zakheim is also a trustee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute; serves on the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground, and of Friends of the Jewish Chapel of the United States Naval Academy; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and other professional organizations. Dr. Zakheim is a member of the advisory boards of the Center for Security Policy, the Initiative for Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East, and the American Jewish Committee

more
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/symposia/jointops00/zakheim.htm...


System Planning Corporation's is proud to offer the Flight Termination System (FTS), a fully redundant turnkey range safety and test system for remote control and flight termination of airborne test vehicles. The FTS consists of SPC's Command Transmitter System (CTS) and custom control, interface, and monitoring subsystems. The system is fully programmable and is flexible enough to meet the changing and challenging requirements of today's modern test ranges.



http://www.sysplan.com /

[Nadienne]

17. Does this:

"The system is fully programmable and is flexible enough to meet the changing and challenging requirements of today's modern test ranges."

(from your post above) mean that the remote controls can work on pretty much any plane?

[tinanator]

18. somewhere it was suggested the 9-11-01 planes were the right type

and seemingly that was less than a coincidence.