Enthymeme
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An enthymeme (Greek: ἐνθύμημα, enthýmēma), in its modern sense, is an informally stated syllogism (a three-part deductive argument) with an unstated assumption that must be true for the premises to lead to the conclusion. In an enthymeme, part of the argument is missing because it is assumed. In a broader usage, the term "enthymeme" is sometimes used to describe an incomplete argument of forms other than the syllogism.[1] For Aristotle, who defined it in his Rhetoric, an enthymeme was a "rhetorical syllogism" which was based on probable opinions, thus distinguishing it from a scientific syllogism. It aimed at persuasion whilst scientific syllogism aimed at demonstration [2].
Contents [hide]
1 Enthymeme's three parts
2 Further examples
3 Use in advertising
4 Notes
5 References
6 See also
7 External links
[edit] Enthymeme's three parts
The following quotation is an example of an enthymeme (used for humorous effect).
"There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal." —Mark Twain.
The three parts:
There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. (premise)
The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal. (conclusion)
Wagner has no ideas. (implicit premise)
[edit] Further examples
First example: Socrates is mortal because he's human.
The complete syllogism would be the classic:
All humans are mortal. (major premise - assumed)
Socrates is human. (minor premise - stated)
Therefore, Socrates is mortal. (conclusion - stated)
Second example: "The glove doesn't fit [the defendant], so you must acquit."
This argument is based on one used by Johnnie Cochran in his defense of O.J. Simpson.
The complete syllogism would be:
If evidence does not fit the defendant, then acquittal is required (major premise - assumed)
The glove doesn't fit the defendant. (minor premise - stated)
The glove is evidence. (minor premise - assumed)
Therefore, you must acquit the defendant. (conclusion - stated)
Stating the argument in this extended form suggests the argument is incomplete. For example, one might be more likely to ask if the glove might have shrunk, ask how "fit" is determined, or ask about the meaning of the expression the glove: What do you mean the glove?. The presence of the definite article the suggests that there is a definite descriptor phrase with the same meaning in this context. Examples of such phrases could be
The glove found at the scene of the crime
The glove used by the assailant.
For some definite descriptor phrases, the major premise of the above syllogism is suspect.
Hidden premises are often an effective way to obscure a questionable or fallacious premise in reasoning. Typically fallacies of presumption (fallacies based on mistaken assumptions, such as ad hominem or two wrongs make a right) are attracted to enthymeme.
[edit] Use in advertising
Advertisers rarely draw out the links between the images they show and the product they wish to sell. There is no logical connection between a beautiful woman draped across the hood of a red sports car and the value of the car itself, but the advertiser implies a premise that there is. If the advertiser instead simply stated, "Buy this car and you will have more sexual satisfaction" it would be easier to reject as a premise.
To use another example, advertisers often show examples of people enjoying their product. They never actually state that the viewer should purchase the product or service that is bringing the people such enjoyment, nor that doing so will inevitably cause enjoyment; they are implied major premises.
[edit] Notes
Enthymemes are generally used for two reasons:
The implied premise is obvious
The implied premise is dubious
An example of the second reason would be, "Of course she is dumb, she is a woman." The implied premise is "All women are dumb," which can easily be proven false by proving that one woman is not "dumb," so the premise is left out in the hopes that the listener might not realize what was implied. When used in daily conversation, the implied premise is usually less obvious.
[edit] References
^ Audi, R. (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy - 2nd ed., pp. 257, 267. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
^ Aristotle, Rhetoric, book I, 1 and 2
[edit] See also
Logical fallacy
Rogerian argument
Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy
modus ponens
[edit] External links
Look up enthymeme in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Extensive bibliography of enthymeme in scholarly literature
The enthymeme in modern speech
Audio illustrations of enthymeme
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthymeme"
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Brent R Wilkes/DC Madam stuffs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Wilkes
Brent Roger Wilkes (born May 21, 1954), an American defense contractor. Wilkes became well known for his involvement with the Duke Cunningham defense contracting scandal and was indicted for his involvement in this scandal on February 13, 2007. He was indicted on new charges which superseded the previous ones on May 10, 2007. Wilkes was convicted on all 13 counts on November 5, 2007.
Contents [hide]
1 Personal and business
2 Corruption allegations
2.1 Involvement with the Cunningham Scandal
2.1.1 Benefits to Wilkes
2.1.2 Favors from Wilkes
2.1.3 Criminal proceedings
2.2 PerfectWave involvement with other Congressmen
2.2.1 DeLay and Doolittle
2.2.2 Representative Lewis
2.2.3 Current status
2.3 Involvement with the CIA
2.4 Connections to Tom DeLay money laundering case
2.5 Illegal contributions in Mayoral race
3 References
4 External links
[edit] Personal and business
Wilkes grew in a San Diego suburb, Chula Vista, and graduated from San Diego State University in 1977 after studying accounting. He then became a CPA while working for Touche Ross, an international public accounting firm, in San Diego. Later, he went to work for a Southern California software company that was seeking federal contracts for converting paper documents to digital ones. He was George W. Bush's finance co-chairman in California, and also involved in Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign for governor. But it was as a federal contractor that he became involved with the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal, and other defense contractor corruption. Wilkes lives in Poway, California.
[edit] Corruption allegations
Cunningham Scandal
A U.S. political scandal in which government contracts were obtained with bribes to Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
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Guilty
Duke Cunningham (R-CA) (100 months)
Kyle Foggo
Robert Fromm
Thomas Kontogiannis
Mitchell Wade
Brent Wilkes
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Indicted
John T. Michael
[edit] Involvement with the Cunningham Scandal
Main article: Duke Cunningham
As The Washington Post put it, "Wilkes was an obscure California contractor and lobbyist until his name surfaced last year as one of two defense contractors alleged to have given Cunningham $2.4 million in cash and other benefits in return for Cunningham's steering government business their way. One of Wilkes's companies received more than $80 million in Pentagon contracts over the past decade that stemmed from earmarks that Cunningham slipped into spending bills."[1]
[edit] Benefits to Wilkes
In 1995 Wilkes started ADCS Inc., or "Automated Document Conversion Systems." With Cunningham's help, he began winning contracts from the Pentagon. Wilkes got a $1 million Pentagon contract in 1997, which Cunningham proclaimed "an asset" to San Diego. In 1999, ADCS, Inc. was awarded a $9.7 million contract to convert documents related to the Panama Canal Zone. Subsequently, the company began collecting more than $20 million a year in defense business."[1]
The military never asked for the ADCS projects. In 2000, a report by the Pentagon's inspector general said of the company's biggest project, a $9.7 million contract to convert documents in Panama, that the program was created under pressure from two congressmen. Pentagon procurement officials identified the two as Cunningham and Duncan Hunter (R-Calif), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, to whom Wilkes had also donated heavily.[2]
[edit] Favors from Wilkes
In return, Wilkes rented hospitality suites at the Watergate Hotel and at the Westin Grand Hotel for Cunningham and other legislators and their guests. Wilkes hired Shirlington Limousine & Transportation Service of Virginia beginning in 1990 for entertainment at the Watergate Hotel. In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security granted Shirlington a $21 million contract. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal and the San Diego Union-Tribune, prostitutes regularly accompanied guests at the suites. Allegedly, admitted Cunningham briber Mitchell Wade told prosecutors that Wilkes had set up a prostitution ring through Shirlington and would procure prostitutes for Cunningham on demand.[3]
[edit] Criminal proceedings
On November 28, 2005 Cunningham pled guilty, and on March 3, 2006, U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns sentenced Cunningham to 100 months (eight years and four months) in prison, the longest ever given to a former member of Congress.[4] The plea agreement mentioned four co-conspirators along with Cunningham: Wilkes, Mitchell Wade; New York businessman Thomas Kontogiannis (whom United States Coast Guard records show was involved in a questionable boat deal with Cunningham); and John T. Michael, Kontogiannis' nephew. The nephew is the owner of a New York-based mortgage company Coastal Capital Corp. Property records show the company made $1.15 million in real estate loans to Cunningham, two of which were used in the purchase of his Rancho Santa Fe mansion. Court records show that Wade paid off one of those loans.[5]
On February 13, 2007 Wilkes and Foggo were indicted on ten charges of conspiracy. In addition, Wilkes was indicted on charges of conspiracy, bribery, money laundering and unlawful monetary transactions to Cunningham in return for government contracts.
On May 10, 2007 Wilkes, Foggo, and Michael were indicted on new charges which superseded the previous indictments. Wilkes and Foggo were charged with thirty counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. In addition Michael was added to the indictment against Wilkes for bribing Cunningham.[6]
On November 5, 2007 Wilkes was convicted of 13 felonies for bribing former congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham with expensive meals, trips, a yacht and mortgage payments for his Rancho Santa Fe mansion in exchange for lucrative government defense contracts.[7]
On January 21, 2008 Federal Probation Officials recommended a 60 year sentence. Wilkes was scheduled to be sentenced on January 21st, but that has been put off until February 19th at the request of his lawyer, Mark Geragos. In court papers, Geragos said he needed more time to analyze and challenge the report from the federal probation office, which he received January 15th – later than required under court rules.
On February 19, 2008 Wilkes was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, a term much shorter than the sentence recommended by the prosecution.[8]
[edit] PerfectWave involvement with other Congressmen
After the release of the Pentagon report which criticized ADCS, Wilkes and a business associate, Max Gelwix, established PerfectWave Technologies LLC, which was trying to perfect a way to delete background noise from radio communications. PerfectWave and ADCS, plus Wilkes himself, owned a company called Group W Advisers, which sought government contracts and earmarks in defense appropriations bills.
[edit] DeLay and Doolittle
Effective as of April 1, 2002, Group W Advisers hired the Alexander Strategy Group, a lobby group run by Ed Buckham, the former chief of staff and spiritual advisor to then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and Tony Rudy, DeLay's former deputy chief of staff. (DeLay's wife, Christine, was working at the firm's office at the time. So was Representative John Doolittle's wife, Julie.) Wilkes and his friends donated heavily to DeLay, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Doolittle (R-Calif.). For example, by mid-April 2002, Wilkes, his executives and ADCS had donated $45,000 to ARMPAC so one of their executives could play golf with DeLay, Federal Election Commission records show.[citation needed]
Doolittle acknowledges steering money to PerfectWave but denies doing anything wrong. In a statement last month, he said his backing for PerfectWave was "based solely on the project's merits and the written support of the military.' But the only evidence Doolittle's office could provide to show military support for the project was a letter of praise from Robert Lusardi, a program manager for light armored vehicles at the Marine Corps dated February 25 – two and a half years after PerfectWave got its first earmark. By the time Lusardi wrote his letter, the company had received at least $37 million in earmarks."[2]
[edit] Representative Lewis
Main article: Jerry Lewis - Lowery lobbying firm controversy
Wilkes also hired the lobbying firm of Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White, where former U.S. Congressman Bill Lowery was a partner from 1993 to 2006. Lowery was close friends with Congressman Jerry Lewis (R-CA).
Since 1993, Wilkes and his associates gave Lewis $88,000 in contributions;[9] Lewis subsequently gave $56,000 of that to Habitat for Humanity.[10] Wilkes paid Copeland Lowery at least $385,000 in fees; by 2005, the firm's fees had increased to $25,000 a month.[11][12]
In January 1999, Lewis became chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. In January 2005 he became chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
In an August 2006 interview, Wilkes said he considered dropping the firm, but that Lowery threatened to block future projects if their relationship ended. Wilkes said Lowery had warned several times that doing so could prompt Lewis to cut off earmarks, saying, “You don’t want me telling those guys on the committee that you are moving on without me.” That meant, Wilkes said, "I’d be out of business."[13]
In early 2006, Lewis has said that he barely knew Wilkes and that he did not remember seeing him in nearly a decade. But Wilkes says their relationship was closer than that. Ever since they went on a scuba-diving trip together in 1993, he said, Lewis had referred to him as his "diving buddy." They occasionally dined together or met at political functions, Wilkes said. At a Las Vegas fund-raiser in April 2005, Wilkes said, Lewis greeted him as "Brento" and hugged him as Wilkes surprised Lewis with $25,000 in campaign contributions.[13]
[edit] Current status
PerfectWave and Wilkes are still under investigation, as is Lewis.
[edit] Involvement with the CIA
In March 2006 the CIA announced that it was investigating the connection between Wilkes and the agency's No. 3 official, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, and whether Foggo helped Wilkes gain CIA contracts. By May, it was reported the FBI was also investigating. The reports were confirmed by a May 12, 2006 raid on his Vienna, Virginia home.
Foggo and Wilkes attended school together at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista and San Diego State University, served as best men in each other's weddings, named their sons after each other, and shared a wine locker at the Capital Grille in Washington D.C., a favorite lobbyists' retreat.[14]
Speaking on CNN, former Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) suggested the corruption scandal as a possible reason behind CIA director Porter Goss's resignation.[15]
In May, the day after Goss' resignation, New York Daily News reported
The investigations have focused on the Watergate poker parties thrown by defense contractor Brent Wilkes, a high-school buddy of Foggo's, that were attended by disgraced former Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham and other lawmakers. Foggo has claimed he went to the parties "just for poker" amid allegations that Wilkes, a top GOP fund-raiser and a member of the $100,000 "Pioneers" of Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, provided prostitutes, limos and hotel suites to Cunningham.... Wilkes hosted regular parties for 15 years at the Watergate and Westin Grand Hotels for lawmakers and lobbyists. Intelligence sources said Goss has denied attending the parties as CIA director, but that left open whether he may have attended as a Republican congressman from Florida who was head of the House Intelligence Committee.[16]
[edit] Connections to Tom DeLay money laundering case
AP reported that "Wilkes has been subpoenaed in the money-laundering case against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Prosecutors want to hear from Wilkes about a contribution to a DeLay fundraising committee at the center of the investigation that led to indictments that pushed the GOP leader from office".[17] Additionally, as noted above, Wilkes' company, Group W Advisers, hired the Alexander Strategy Group that employed DeLay's wife to lobby for acoustic technology for the Navy.
[edit] Illegal contributions in Mayoral race
In November 2005, the California state's watchdog agency, the Fair Political Practices Commission, filed a complaint against Wilkes. The substance of the complaint is that Wilkes attempted to circumvent San Diego's limit on individual campaign contributions with "straw contributions" (i.e., reimbursing others for their contributions). The complaint noted that 22 of his employees as ADCS or relatives of his employees gave $250 each to the 2002 San Diego mayoral campaign of Ron Roberts. The complaint was not released until July 2006 after receiving a public-records act request.[18]
[edit] References
^ a b Earmarks Became Contractor's Business Charles R. Babcock, Washington Post, February 20, 2006
^ a b The power of persuasion, Dean Calbreath, San
Brent Roger Wilkes (born May 21, 1954), an American defense contractor. Wilkes became well known for his involvement with the Duke Cunningham defense contracting scandal and was indicted for his involvement in this scandal on February 13, 2007. He was indicted on new charges which superseded the previous ones on May 10, 2007. Wilkes was convicted on all 13 counts on November 5, 2007.
Contents [hide]
1 Personal and business
2 Corruption allegations
2.1 Involvement with the Cunningham Scandal
2.1.1 Benefits to Wilkes
2.1.2 Favors from Wilkes
2.1.3 Criminal proceedings
2.2 PerfectWave involvement with other Congressmen
2.2.1 DeLay and Doolittle
2.2.2 Representative Lewis
2.2.3 Current status
2.3 Involvement with the CIA
2.4 Connections to Tom DeLay money laundering case
2.5 Illegal contributions in Mayoral race
3 References
4 External links
[edit] Personal and business
Wilkes grew in a San Diego suburb, Chula Vista, and graduated from San Diego State University in 1977 after studying accounting. He then became a CPA while working for Touche Ross, an international public accounting firm, in San Diego. Later, he went to work for a Southern California software company that was seeking federal contracts for converting paper documents to digital ones. He was George W. Bush's finance co-chairman in California, and also involved in Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign for governor. But it was as a federal contractor that he became involved with the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal, and other defense contractor corruption. Wilkes lives in Poway, California.
[edit] Corruption allegations
Cunningham Scandal
A U.S. political scandal in which government contracts were obtained with bribes to Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Guilty
Duke Cunningham (R-CA) (100 months)
Kyle Foggo
Robert Fromm
Thomas Kontogiannis
Mitchell Wade
Brent Wilkes
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Indicted
John T. Michael
[edit] Involvement with the Cunningham Scandal
Main article: Duke Cunningham
As The Washington Post put it, "Wilkes was an obscure California contractor and lobbyist until his name surfaced last year as one of two defense contractors alleged to have given Cunningham $2.4 million in cash and other benefits in return for Cunningham's steering government business their way. One of Wilkes's companies received more than $80 million in Pentagon contracts over the past decade that stemmed from earmarks that Cunningham slipped into spending bills."[1]
[edit] Benefits to Wilkes
In 1995 Wilkes started ADCS Inc., or "Automated Document Conversion Systems." With Cunningham's help, he began winning contracts from the Pentagon. Wilkes got a $1 million Pentagon contract in 1997, which Cunningham proclaimed "an asset" to San Diego. In 1999, ADCS, Inc. was awarded a $9.7 million contract to convert documents related to the Panama Canal Zone. Subsequently, the company began collecting more than $20 million a year in defense business."[1]
The military never asked for the ADCS projects. In 2000, a report by the Pentagon's inspector general said of the company's biggest project, a $9.7 million contract to convert documents in Panama, that the program was created under pressure from two congressmen. Pentagon procurement officials identified the two as Cunningham and Duncan Hunter (R-Calif), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, to whom Wilkes had also donated heavily.[2]
[edit] Favors from Wilkes
In return, Wilkes rented hospitality suites at the Watergate Hotel and at the Westin Grand Hotel for Cunningham and other legislators and their guests. Wilkes hired Shirlington Limousine & Transportation Service of Virginia beginning in 1990 for entertainment at the Watergate Hotel. In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security granted Shirlington a $21 million contract. According to reports in the Wall Street Journal and the San Diego Union-Tribune, prostitutes regularly accompanied guests at the suites. Allegedly, admitted Cunningham briber Mitchell Wade told prosecutors that Wilkes had set up a prostitution ring through Shirlington and would procure prostitutes for Cunningham on demand.[3]
[edit] Criminal proceedings
On November 28, 2005 Cunningham pled guilty, and on March 3, 2006, U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns sentenced Cunningham to 100 months (eight years and four months) in prison, the longest ever given to a former member of Congress.[4] The plea agreement mentioned four co-conspirators along with Cunningham: Wilkes, Mitchell Wade; New York businessman Thomas Kontogiannis (whom United States Coast Guard records show was involved in a questionable boat deal with Cunningham); and John T. Michael, Kontogiannis' nephew. The nephew is the owner of a New York-based mortgage company Coastal Capital Corp. Property records show the company made $1.15 million in real estate loans to Cunningham, two of which were used in the purchase of his Rancho Santa Fe mansion. Court records show that Wade paid off one of those loans.[5]
On February 13, 2007 Wilkes and Foggo were indicted on ten charges of conspiracy. In addition, Wilkes was indicted on charges of conspiracy, bribery, money laundering and unlawful monetary transactions to Cunningham in return for government contracts.
On May 10, 2007 Wilkes, Foggo, and Michael were indicted on new charges which superseded the previous indictments. Wilkes and Foggo were charged with thirty counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. In addition Michael was added to the indictment against Wilkes for bribing Cunningham.[6]
On November 5, 2007 Wilkes was convicted of 13 felonies for bribing former congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham with expensive meals, trips, a yacht and mortgage payments for his Rancho Santa Fe mansion in exchange for lucrative government defense contracts.[7]
On January 21, 2008 Federal Probation Officials recommended a 60 year sentence. Wilkes was scheduled to be sentenced on January 21st, but that has been put off until February 19th at the request of his lawyer, Mark Geragos. In court papers, Geragos said he needed more time to analyze and challenge the report from the federal probation office, which he received January 15th – later than required under court rules.
On February 19, 2008 Wilkes was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, a term much shorter than the sentence recommended by the prosecution.[8]
[edit] PerfectWave involvement with other Congressmen
After the release of the Pentagon report which criticized ADCS, Wilkes and a business associate, Max Gelwix, established PerfectWave Technologies LLC, which was trying to perfect a way to delete background noise from radio communications. PerfectWave and ADCS, plus Wilkes himself, owned a company called Group W Advisers, which sought government contracts and earmarks in defense appropriations bills.
[edit] DeLay and Doolittle
Effective as of April 1, 2002, Group W Advisers hired the Alexander Strategy Group, a lobby group run by Ed Buckham, the former chief of staff and spiritual advisor to then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and Tony Rudy, DeLay's former deputy chief of staff. (DeLay's wife, Christine, was working at the firm's office at the time. So was Representative John Doolittle's wife, Julie.) Wilkes and his friends donated heavily to DeLay, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Doolittle (R-Calif.). For example, by mid-April 2002, Wilkes, his executives and ADCS had donated $45,000 to ARMPAC so one of their executives could play golf with DeLay, Federal Election Commission records show.[citation needed]
Doolittle acknowledges steering money to PerfectWave but denies doing anything wrong. In a statement last month, he said his backing for PerfectWave was "based solely on the project's merits and the written support of the military.' But the only evidence Doolittle's office could provide to show military support for the project was a letter of praise from Robert Lusardi, a program manager for light armored vehicles at the Marine Corps dated February 25 – two and a half years after PerfectWave got its first earmark. By the time Lusardi wrote his letter, the company had received at least $37 million in earmarks."[2]
[edit] Representative Lewis
Main article: Jerry Lewis - Lowery lobbying firm controversy
Wilkes also hired the lobbying firm of Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White, where former U.S. Congressman Bill Lowery was a partner from 1993 to 2006. Lowery was close friends with Congressman Jerry Lewis (R-CA).
Since 1993, Wilkes and his associates gave Lewis $88,000 in contributions;[9] Lewis subsequently gave $56,000 of that to Habitat for Humanity.[10] Wilkes paid Copeland Lowery at least $385,000 in fees; by 2005, the firm's fees had increased to $25,000 a month.[11][12]
In January 1999, Lewis became chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. In January 2005 he became chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
In an August 2006 interview, Wilkes said he considered dropping the firm, but that Lowery threatened to block future projects if their relationship ended. Wilkes said Lowery had warned several times that doing so could prompt Lewis to cut off earmarks, saying, “You don’t want me telling those guys on the committee that you are moving on without me.” That meant, Wilkes said, "I’d be out of business."[13]
In early 2006, Lewis has said that he barely knew Wilkes and that he did not remember seeing him in nearly a decade. But Wilkes says their relationship was closer than that. Ever since they went on a scuba-diving trip together in 1993, he said, Lewis had referred to him as his "diving buddy." They occasionally dined together or met at political functions, Wilkes said. At a Las Vegas fund-raiser in April 2005, Wilkes said, Lewis greeted him as "Brento" and hugged him as Wilkes surprised Lewis with $25,000 in campaign contributions.[13]
[edit] Current status
PerfectWave and Wilkes are still under investigation, as is Lewis.
[edit] Involvement with the CIA
In March 2006 the CIA announced that it was investigating the connection between Wilkes and the agency's No. 3 official, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, and whether Foggo helped Wilkes gain CIA contracts. By May, it was reported the FBI was also investigating. The reports were confirmed by a May 12, 2006 raid on his Vienna, Virginia home.
Foggo and Wilkes attended school together at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista and San Diego State University, served as best men in each other's weddings, named their sons after each other, and shared a wine locker at the Capital Grille in Washington D.C., a favorite lobbyists' retreat.[14]
Speaking on CNN, former Congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) suggested the corruption scandal as a possible reason behind CIA director Porter Goss's resignation.[15]
In May, the day after Goss' resignation, New York Daily News reported
The investigations have focused on the Watergate poker parties thrown by defense contractor Brent Wilkes, a high-school buddy of Foggo's, that were attended by disgraced former Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham and other lawmakers. Foggo has claimed he went to the parties "just for poker" amid allegations that Wilkes, a top GOP fund-raiser and a member of the $100,000 "Pioneers" of Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, provided prostitutes, limos and hotel suites to Cunningham.... Wilkes hosted regular parties for 15 years at the Watergate and Westin Grand Hotels for lawmakers and lobbyists. Intelligence sources said Goss has denied attending the parties as CIA director, but that left open whether he may have attended as a Republican congressman from Florida who was head of the House Intelligence Committee.[16]
[edit] Connections to Tom DeLay money laundering case
AP reported that "Wilkes has been subpoenaed in the money-laundering case against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Prosecutors want to hear from Wilkes about a contribution to a DeLay fundraising committee at the center of the investigation that led to indictments that pushed the GOP leader from office".[17] Additionally, as noted above, Wilkes' company, Group W Advisers, hired the Alexander Strategy Group that employed DeLay's wife to lobby for acoustic technology for the Navy.
[edit] Illegal contributions in Mayoral race
In November 2005, the California state's watchdog agency, the Fair Political Practices Commission, filed a complaint against Wilkes. The substance of the complaint is that Wilkes attempted to circumvent San Diego's limit on individual campaign contributions with "straw contributions" (i.e., reimbursing others for their contributions). The complaint noted that 22 of his employees as ADCS or relatives of his employees gave $250 each to the 2002 San Diego mayoral campaign of Ron Roberts. The complaint was not released until July 2006 after receiving a public-records act request.[18]
[edit] References
^ a b Earmarks Became Contractor's Business Charles R. Babcock, Washington Post, February 20, 2006
^ a b The power of persuasion, Dean Calbreath, San
Sam Donaldson's Digits in DC Madam's Black Book
The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/12/sam-donaldsons-digits-in_n_72186.html?view=print
January 29, 2009
Sam Donaldson's Digits In DC Madam's Black Book
Radar | Steve Huff | November 12, 2007 10:17 AM
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Buzz up!on Yahoo!Once upon a time in D.C. there was a Madam named Debra. The boys under the Dome loved her milkshakes and they formed a line in her yard. Soon a scandal erupted, and to the long list of politicos found peppered in Deborah Jeane Palfrey's phone records, a certain infamously combed-over newsman from the very network that broke much of the story was included as well.
Maybe one of Sam Donaldson's phone numbers allegedly showing up in Ms. Palfrey's immense list of ungentlemanly callers was part of the reason ABC's coverage of the Madam's story was ultimately rather, uh, flaccid.
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The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous N. W. O. Zion-Nazi mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of OKC, 911, Bali, 7/7/2005 and the phoney War on Terror and Freedom, and reinstate God's Perfect Laws of Liberty and bring the perpetrators to Justice.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright~
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
Geometrically Ordered Divinity (G.O.D.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/12/sam-donaldsons-digits-in_n_72186.html?view=print
January 29, 2009
Sam Donaldson's Digits In DC Madam's Black Book
Radar | Steve Huff | November 12, 2007 10:17 AM
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Buzz up!on Yahoo!Once upon a time in D.C. there was a Madam named Debra. The boys under the Dome loved her milkshakes and they formed a line in her yard. Soon a scandal erupted, and to the long list of politicos found peppered in Deborah Jeane Palfrey's phone records, a certain infamously combed-over newsman from the very network that broke much of the story was included as well.
Maybe one of Sam Donaldson's phone numbers allegedly showing up in Ms. Palfrey's immense list of ungentlemanly callers was part of the reason ABC's coverage of the Madam's story was ultimately rather, uh, flaccid.
Comments for this post are now closed
The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous N. W. O. Zion-Nazi mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of OKC, 911, Bali, 7/7/2005 and the phoney War on Terror and Freedom, and reinstate God's Perfect Laws of Liberty and bring the perpetrators to Justice.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright~
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
Geometrically Ordered Divinity (G.O.D.)
Mental Health Links/NASMHPD's Mental Health Glossary
http://www.nasmhpd.org/mental_health_resources.cfm
Mental Health Links
NASMHPD's Mental Health Glossary
Federal Web Sites
State Mental Health Agencies
CMHS Research, Training and Technical Assistance Centers
Other Mental Health Web Sites
Other Web Sites
Non NASMHPD Publications
Federal Web Sites:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
HHS Online Employee Directory
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
Systems of Care Site
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
Get Fit
SAMHSA's Disaster Technical Assistance Center (DTAC)
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
Adminstration for Children and Families (ACF)
Administration on Aging (AoA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ)
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Special Education
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (NCPTSD)
U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA)
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Home Page
Office of the Surgeon General
President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
State Mental Health Agencies:
Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Division of Mental Illness
Alaska Division of Behavioral Health
American Samoa Department of Human and Social Services
Arizona Department of Behavioral Health Services
Arkansas Division of Mental Health Services
California Department of Mental Health
Colorado Division of Mental Health Services
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Delaware Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
District of Columbia, Department of Mental Health
Florida Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Georgia Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Addictive Diseases
Guam Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Hawaii Mental Health Division
Idaho Division of Behavioral Health
Illinois Office of Mental Health
Indiana Mental Health Services
Iowa Division of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Kansas Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery
Kentucky Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services
Louisiana Office of Mental Health
Maine Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
Michigan Department of Community Health
Minnesota Department of Human Services
Mississippi Department of Mental Health
Missouri Department of Mental Health
Montana Addictive and Mental Disorders Division
Nebraska Mental Health Services
Nevada Division of Mental Health and Developmental Services
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
New Jersey Department of Human Services
New Mexico Behavioral Health Services
New York State Office of Mental Health
North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services
North Dakota Mental Health Services
Ohio Department of Mental Health
Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Oregon Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
Puerto Rico Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Service (Spanish only)
Rhode Island Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals
South Carolina Department of Mental Health
South Dakota Division of Mental Health
Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Utah Division of Mental Health
Vermont Department of Health
Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services
Virgin Islands Department of Mental Health, Alcoholism, and Drug Dependency Services
Washington Department of Social and Health Services
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services
West Virginia Office of Behavioral Health Services
Wyoming Mental Health Division
CMHS/ Other Federal Agency Research, Training and Technical Assistance Centers:
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center
Center for Support of Mental Health Services in Isolated Rural Areas
Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center (CONTAC)
The Evaluation Center at HSRI
National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center
The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System
National Empowerment Center (NEC)
National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)
National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
National PACT Center, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability and Peer Support
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University
Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) Technical Assistance Center
Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center
Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health
Center on the Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL)
Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Interventions (TACSEI)
Other Mental Health Web Sites:
The Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma (ADS Center)
Alliance fo the Safe, Therapeutic and Appropriate Use of Residential Treatment (A START)
American Association of Community Psychiatrists
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA)
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Campaign for Mental Health Reform
CHADD - Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Collaborative for Conflict Management in Mental Health
Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
First Nations Behavioral Health Association
Gift from Within - PTSD Resources for Survivors and Caregivers
Mental Health America (formerly the National Mental Health Association)
Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG)
Mental Health Part D
Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program Online
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)
National Alliance of Multi-Ethnic Behavioral Health Associations
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHD)
National Association of Mental Health Planning and Advisory Councils (NAMHPAC)
NASMHPD Research Institute, Inc. (NRI)
National Assocation of Reimbursement Officers (NARO)
National Coalition for Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (NCCBH)
National Healthcare Cost and Quality Association
National Latino Behavioral Health Association (NLBHA)
National Leadership Council on African American Behavioral Health, Inc.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-TALK)
Network of Care for Mental Health
Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPANUSA)
Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
US Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA, formerly IAPSRS)
Other Web Sites:
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
Campaign for Children's Health Care
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD)
Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation (CSAVR)
Council of State Governments (CSG)
Re-Entry Policy Council (RPC)
The Finance Project / Welfare Information Network (WIN)
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
Legal Action Center
National Alliance to End Homelessness
National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD)
National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS)
National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE)
National Association of State Medicaid Directors (NASMD)
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
National Disability Rights Network
National Governors Association (NGA)
The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous N. W. O. Zion-Nazi mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of OKC, 911, Bali, 7/7/2005 and the phoney War on Terror and Freedom, and reinstate God's Perfect Laws of Liberty and bring the perpetrators to Justice.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright~
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
Geometrically Ordered Divinity (G.O.D.)
Mental Health Links
NASMHPD's Mental Health Glossary
Federal Web Sites
State Mental Health Agencies
CMHS Research, Training and Technical Assistance Centers
Other Mental Health Web Sites
Other Web Sites
Non NASMHPD Publications
Federal Web Sites:
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
HHS Online Employee Directory
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
Systems of Care Site
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
Get Fit
SAMHSA's Disaster Technical Assistance Center (DTAC)
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
Adminstration for Children and Families (ACF)
Administration on Aging (AoA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ)
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Special Education
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (NCPTSD)
U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA)
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Home Page
Office of the Surgeon General
President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
State Mental Health Agencies:
Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Division of Mental Illness
Alaska Division of Behavioral Health
American Samoa Department of Human and Social Services
Arizona Department of Behavioral Health Services
Arkansas Division of Mental Health Services
California Department of Mental Health
Colorado Division of Mental Health Services
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Delaware Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
District of Columbia, Department of Mental Health
Florida Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Georgia Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Addictive Diseases
Guam Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Hawaii Mental Health Division
Idaho Division of Behavioral Health
Illinois Office of Mental Health
Indiana Mental Health Services
Iowa Division of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Kansas Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment and Recovery
Kentucky Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services
Louisiana Office of Mental Health
Maine Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
Michigan Department of Community Health
Minnesota Department of Human Services
Mississippi Department of Mental Health
Missouri Department of Mental Health
Montana Addictive and Mental Disorders Division
Nebraska Mental Health Services
Nevada Division of Mental Health and Developmental Services
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
New Jersey Department of Human Services
New Mexico Behavioral Health Services
New York State Office of Mental Health
North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services
North Dakota Mental Health Services
Ohio Department of Mental Health
Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Oregon Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
Puerto Rico Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Service (Spanish only)
Rhode Island Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals
South Carolina Department of Mental Health
South Dakota Division of Mental Health
Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Utah Division of Mental Health
Vermont Department of Health
Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services
Virgin Islands Department of Mental Health, Alcoholism, and Drug Dependency Services
Washington Department of Social and Health Services
Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services
West Virginia Office of Behavioral Health Services
Wyoming Mental Health Division
CMHS/ Other Federal Agency Research, Training and Technical Assistance Centers:
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center
Center for Support of Mental Health Services in Isolated Rural Areas
Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center (CONTAC)
The Evaluation Center at HSRI
National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center
The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System
National Empowerment Center (NEC)
National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)
National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
National PACT Center, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability and Peer Support
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University
Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) Technical Assistance Center
Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center
Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health
Center on the Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL)
Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Interventions (TACSEI)
Other Mental Health Web Sites:
The Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma (ADS Center)
Alliance fo the Safe, Therapeutic and Appropriate Use of Residential Treatment (A START)
American Association of Community Psychiatrists
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA)
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Campaign for Mental Health Reform
CHADD - Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Collaborative for Conflict Management in Mental Health
Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
First Nations Behavioral Health Association
Gift from Within - PTSD Resources for Survivors and Caregivers
Mental Health America (formerly the National Mental Health Association)
Mental Health Liaison Group (MHLG)
Mental Health Part D
Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program Online
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)
National Alliance of Multi-Ethnic Behavioral Health Associations
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHD)
National Association of Mental Health Planning and Advisory Councils (NAMHPAC)
NASMHPD Research Institute, Inc. (NRI)
National Assocation of Reimbursement Officers (NARO)
National Coalition for Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (NCCBH)
National Healthcare Cost and Quality Association
National Latino Behavioral Health Association (NLBHA)
National Leadership Council on African American Behavioral Health, Inc.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-TALK)
Network of Care for Mental Health
Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPANUSA)
Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
US Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA, formerly IAPSRS)
Other Web Sites:
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
Campaign for Children's Health Care
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD)
Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation (CSAVR)
Council of State Governments (CSG)
Re-Entry Policy Council (RPC)
The Finance Project / Welfare Information Network (WIN)
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
Legal Action Center
National Alliance to End Homelessness
National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD)
National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS)
National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE)
National Association of State Medicaid Directors (NASMD)
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
National Disability Rights Network
National Governors Association (NGA)
The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous N. W. O. Zion-Nazi mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of OKC, 911, Bali, 7/7/2005 and the phoney War on Terror and Freedom, and reinstate God's Perfect Laws of Liberty and bring the perpetrators to Justice.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright~
"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men."
Geometrically Ordered Divinity (G.O.D.)
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