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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 01:16 PM
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Harold Rogers(R)Kentucky;profiteering from Homeland Security?
NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/washington/14rogers.html?ex=1305259200&en=47206ba3010f23d6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

In Kentucky Hills, a Homeland Security Bonanza

By ERIC LIPTON
Published: May 14, 2006

WASHINGTON, May 13 — The Department of Homeland Security has invested tens of millions of dollars and countless hours of labor over the last four years on a seemingly simple task: creating a tamperproof identification card for airport, rail and maritime workers.

Yet nearly two years past a planned deadline, production of the card, known as the Transportation Worker Identification Credential, has yet to begin.

Instead, the road to delivering this critical antiterrorism tool has taken detours to locations, companies and groups often linked to Representative Harold Rogers, a Kentucky Republican who is the powerful chairman of the House subcommittee that controls the Homeland Security budget.

It is a route that has benefited Mr. Rogers, creating jobs in his home district and profits for companies that are donors to his political causes. The congressman has also taken 11 trips — including six to Hawaii — on the tab of an organization that until this week was to profit from a no-bid contract Mr. Rogers helped arrange. Work has even been set aside for a tiny start-up company in Kentucky that employs John Rogers, the congressman's son.

"Something stinks in Corbin," said Jay M. Meier, senior securities analyst at MJSK Equity Research in Minneapolis, which follows the identification card industry, referring to the Kentucky community of 8,000 that has perhaps benefited the most from Mr. Rogers's interventions. "And it is the sickest example of what is wrong with our homeland security agenda that I can find."
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 01:21 PM
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1. Rogers(R) also sounds as crooked as the day is long; I hope this
article starts yet another inquiry. One can hope...
Where does this end?
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-14-06 01:26 PM
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2. It seems to have no end n/t
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