The Revolving Door of Public Whores

© 2006

Yes sirree Folks, it seems as though the public officials who once "served" in our govenment are now in the business of sucking our tax dollars dry.
Leaving their paltry salaries they are now making hundreds of thousands dollars more by pretending to offer us security.

Asa Hutchinson financial disclosure form filed in Arkansas in May as part of the governor's race says only that in 2005 he made more than $12,500 — the maximum amount available to check off on the state disclosure form — from at least four different domestic-security-related ventures, not including the department itself.

Mr. Hutchinson acknowledges that in one year he earned more than he ever did in one year as under secretary at the Homeland Security Department, but he declined to give an estimate of his earnings.

Mr. Hutchinson began his negotiations to enter private industry months before he resigned. On March 2, 2005, the day after he officially left the department, he began work at Venable LLP, a Washington law and lobbying firm that represents major domestic security contractors like Lockheed Martin.

Tom Ridge the former secretary, stands to profit handsomely now that Savi Technology, a maker of radio frequency identification equipment that the department pushed while he was secretary, is being bought by Lockheed Martin. He was appointed to the Savi board three months after resigning from the department and has been compensated with an undisclosed number of stock options that Lockheed will presumably need to buy back. In the coming weeks, Mr. Ridge says he plans to open his own domestic security and crisis management consulting firm.

Carol A. DiBattiste, who made $155,000 in 2004 as deputy administrator at the Transportation Security Administration, earned more than $934,000 last year from ChoicePoint, a Homeland Security Department contractor she joined in April 2005, the same month she left the agency.

What is our money buying?

Probably new houses, cars, furs, etc. for the whores who are pimping out our national security.

Go read more about the corruption and be sure to check out the graphic chart for more details concerning who's who in providing "national security"
NY Times