American Free Press | March 15, 2010
Jim Traficant
Many of you have read Michael Collins Piper’s book Target Traficant. Michael has a gift of expression utilizing the printed (and spoken) word.*
Reading the book, you begin to understand how obsessed our government and the Justice Department was in removing yours truly from Congress. They could not bear my voice reverberating around the Capitol completely insulated by the speech and debate clause of our Constitution.
Our government was so pleased with the Traficant conviction that they promoted Justice Department official Michael Chertoff to the No. 1 position of the powerful and important Homeland Security Department. The boss. The big guy. Big shot. Chertoff “got” Traficant. That wasn’t all. Cleveland Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Morford was elevated to the No. 2 position in the Department of Justice. In fact, Morford became the acting attorney general after the departure of A.G. Alberto Gonzalez. Morford and Chertoff “got” Traficant.
Well, now the chickens seem to be coming home to roost. What is Chertoff’s new gig? “The Chertoff Group.” Chertoff now represents companies, many of which do business with the United States government.
Morford is also in the private sector now. He is chief compliance officer for Cardinal Health, Inc., a Fortune 20 corporation. Reports say Morford is earning his keep. Morford is being credited with successfully reducing Cardinal Health’s delinquent tax assessment of over $600,000, down to a manageable $50,000. After all, Morford has connections.
Chertoff is not much different. One of the Chertoff Group’s clients is a company named Rapiscan. Rapiscan is in the money. Rapiscan makes full-body scanners to protect our airplanes from terrorists.
The trouble is when Chertoff was chief of Homeland Security, Homeland Security started buying scanners from Rapiscan for $160,000—that’s right, for each one. In fact, in 2008 alone, Rapiscan got $26.5 million from Homeland Security—and $41.4 million from all government agencies combined.
Numbers prove that the Chertoff Group is becoming the most high-powered and deep-pocketed national security consulting firm in the United States. According to insiders, Chertoff took full advantage of the attempted attack on Northwest Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, known as “the crotch bomber.” Chertoff claimed America needed full-body scanners to prevent these types of disasters. Chertoff wanted funding on a large scale, and Chertoff got it.
If that’s not enough to bomb your crotch, it was recently announced that “11 major airports will begin using full body scanners and plan to buy 1,000 of the machines over the next two years.”
Think about it. Chertoff was a big supporter of full-body scanners when he was the top dog at the Department of Homeland Security. Yeah, right, who’s kidding whom? Chertoff should be investigated. If this isn’t a classic case of conflict of interest and is not a crime, I don’t know what is.
The truth is, there’s some rumbling about Chertoff’s actions in this matter—but who will question it? Chertoff should be subpoenaed by a grand jury, and his involvement with this Rapiscan contract should be scrutinized and investigated.
I say Chertoff used his power, contacts and influence to make huge personal gains from the sale of these 1,000- plus body scanners at a price of $160,000 each. Chertoff allowed our borders to be wide open while demanding full body scanners.
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