Richard Armitage...what's his deal?

[oustemnow]

He's the jackass who today accused the Iraqi insurgents of trying to get Bush voted out of office. I think that they said that he's currently Deputy Secretary of State, but I seem to recall hearing his name years ago, and for some reason I recall it being not in a particularly good light. Anyone know thte background on this guy?

[DURHAM D]

1. Here is what I like about him . . .

A couple of years ago when Newt was trying to force Colin Powell to resign Armitage made the comment on tv that Newt "is off his meds and out of therapy".

[shraby]

2. Richard Armitage

Richard L. Armitage
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Richard L. Armitage is considered to be a conservative "neo con" (neo-conservative). He currently serves as Deputy Secretary of State.

Armitage is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.<1> He is one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century (PNAC) letter to President William Jefferson Clinton.<2> He is also a former board member for CACI, the private military contractor, which "is being investigated by no less than 5 US agencies for possible contract violations" and "employed four interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison" in Iraq, one of whom was singled out by General Taguba in his report on abuses of Iraqi detainees at the prison.<3>

"Most recently, Richard Armitage was the President of Armitage Associates. Previously, he served with the rank of Ambassador as the Coordinator for Technical and Humanitarian Assistance to the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. President George Herbert Walker Bush appointed him as a Presidential Special Negotiator for the Philippines Military Base Agreement, a Special Mediator for Water in the Middle East and as a Special Emissary to Jordan during the 1991 Gulf War. In addition, Richard served in the Pentagon as Assistant Secretary of Defense and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy and then completed four tours of duty in Vietnam."<4>

"Richard Armitage, one of the Iran-Contra plotters, was a board member of Database Technologies (DBT)/ChoicePoint Inc before taking office under George Bush Jr. ... Choicepoint is a partner of data mining company SAIC whose web site proclaims it has "developed a strategic alliance with ChoicePoint Incorporated to provide our clients with quick and effortless information retrieval from public records data. ChoicePoint Incorporated maintains thousands of gigabytes of public records data.""<5>

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[0007]

3. Before Armitage got into politics he was the main character

of the famous "Three Stooges"

[gumby]

5. Naw, that's MasterBlaster

of "Road Warrior" fame.

[Minstrel Boy]

4. He's a drug trafficker from way back.

He just happens to deal for the government.


During the period (1965 - 1975) CIA Chief in Laos, Theodore Shackly, was in the drug business, having contacts with the Opium Warlord Lor Sing Han and his followers. Santo Trafficano acted as his buying and transporting agent while Richard Armitage handled the financial section with the Banks in Australia. Even after the Vietnam War ended, when Richard Armitage was being posted to the US Embassy in Thailand, his dealings in the drug business continued as before. He was then acting as the US government official concerning with the drug problems in Southeast Asia. After 1979, Richard Armitage resigned from the US Embassy's posting and set up the "Far East Trading Company" as a front for his continuation in the drug trade and to bribe CIA agents in Laos and around the world. Soon after, Daniel Arnold was made to handle the drug business as well as the transportation of arms sales. Jerry Daniels then took over the drug trade from Richard Armitage. For over 10 years, Armitage supported his men in Laos and Thailand with the profits from his drug trade and most of the cash were deposited with the Banks in Australia which was to be used in buying his way for quicker promotions to higher positions.
http://www.wethepeople.la/sa.htm

[Neshanic]

6. Shirt collar and tie challenged with blimpish head and neck.