9/11 Villain Dov Zakheim Is Back! Bush Appoints Him To New Wartime
Contracting Commission
Corrupt Dov Zakheim is Back! Bush Appoints Him To New Wartime Contracting
Commission
Jun. 22nd, 2008 at 11:44 AM
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New Wartime Contracting Commission Members Named
The press office of Senator Jim Webb (D-Virginia) today announced the
names of seven of the
eight panelists on the Commission on Wartime Contracting. POGO has long
sup****ted this concept
and is glad to see its progression into becoming reality.
Now the work really begins and not a moment too soon. Unlike the
congressional foresight shown
during World War II, where at the onset of war the Senate created the
original Committee to
Examine the National Defense Program (more popularly known as the Truman
Committee), this new
Commission begins its work about six years after our major conflicts
abroad began. It does have
some help: Inspectors General, such as the Special Inspector General for
Iraq Reconstruction
and the Defense Department and State Inspectors General, and other
oversight personnel like
those at the Government Accountability Office, Defense Contract Audit
Agency and Defense
Contract Management Agency provide insight into the last several years.
But even with this
firepower - at its current level it is woefully inadequate - the massive
level of contracting
has led to a situation where there may be potentially thousands of
criminal procurement fraud
cases, according to House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry
Waxman (D-California).
Those commissioners are (the first four are the Democratic congressional
picks, the last three
are the Republican congressional and President Bush's choices):
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* Dov S. Zakheim: Commissioner *Appointed by President George W. Bush
*
Dov S. Zakheim is a Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton, a global
strategy and technology
consulting firm, where he is a leader in the firm's global defense
business, working with U.S.
Combatant Commanders and allied and coalition ministries of defense
worldwide.
From 2001 to April 2004 he served as the Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller) and Chief
Financial Officer for the Department of Defense, acting as the Secretary
of Defense's principal
advisor on financial and budgetary matters, developing and managing the
world's largest
budgets<http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/congress/2004_hr/040301-zakheim.htm>,
overseeing all aspects of the Department's accounting and auditing
systems, and negotiating
five major defense agreements with US allies and partners.
From 2002-2004 Dr. Zakheim was DOD's coordinator of civilian programs in
Afghanistan. He also
helped organize both the June 2003 UN donors' conference on Iraq
reconstruction and the October
2003 Madrid Donors' Conference.
From 1987 to 2001 he was both cor****ate vice president of System Planning
Cor****ation, a
technology, analysis firm based in Arlington, VA, and 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),
playing an active role in
the Department's system acquisition, strategic planning, programming and
budget processes. Dr.
Zakheim held several other DOD posts from 1981 to 1985. Earlier, he was a
principal analyst in
the National Security and International Affairs Division of the
Congressional Budget Office.
Dr. Zakheim has served on a number of government, cor****ate, non-profit
and charitable boards.
His government service includes two terms on the United States Commission
for the Preservation
of America's Heritage Abroad (1991-93); 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). He is a member of the Defense Business Board
<http://www.defenselink.mil/dbb/members.html>,
which he helped establish,
the Chief of Naval
Operations Executive Panel and the Council on Foreign Relations
<http://www.cfr.org/index.html>.
A 1970 graduate of Columbia University with a B.A., *summa *** laude*, 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 a
National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellow, a Columbia College Kellett Fellow, and a St.
Antony's College
Research Fellow. He has been an adjunct Senior Fellow of the Council on
Foreign Relations, an
adjunct Scholar of the Heritage Foundation and a Senior Associate of the
Center for Strategic
and International Studies. Dr. Zakheim has been an adjunct professor at
the National War
College, Ye****va University, Columbia University and Trinity College,
Hartford, Conn., where he
was a Presidential Scholar.
The author of a dozen books or monographs, and of numerous articles, Dr.
Zakheim has lectured
and provided print, radio and television commentary on national defense
and foreign policy
issues domestically and internationally. He is the recipient of numerous
awards for his
government, professional and civic work, including the Defense
Department's highest civilian
award in 1986, 1987 and 2004.
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