{"id":177,"date":"2003-10-05T04:33:25","date_gmt":"2003-10-05T08:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=177"},"modified":"2003-10-05T04:33:25","modified_gmt":"2003-10-05T08:33:25","slug":"the-bush-family-fixer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"The Bush Family Fixer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/americas\/story.jsp?story=450120\">reports<\/a> of David Kay&#8217;s connections to SAIC [Science Applications International Corporation] informing some readers and reminding the rest that during his tenure there as VP he <i>&#8220;claimed that Iraq could launch terrorist attacks on the US mainland.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The article goes on to mention that <i>the US government had given it [SAIC]a contract three years ago to produce mobile biological vans for training purposes<\/i> and that it is &#8216;deeply involved&#8217; in Iraq today enjoying a <i>$650m contract for services and support for the US army. Among other activities, the company runs the US-funded radio station in Umm Qasr, &#8220;Voice of the New Iraq&#8221;, and helps to provide senior advisers to the US occupation authorities in Baghdad. It is not known if Mr Kay retains financial interests in SAIC.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For more on Kay, SAIC, its ties to Stephen Hatfill which the Independent took a miss on while reporting about the construction of the dummy labs <a href=\"http:\/\/baltimore.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/4430\/index.php\">this report <\/a> filed by Cheryl Seal in July 2003 makes for a very interesting read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent reports of David Kay&#8217;s connections to SAIC [Science Applications International Corporation] informing some readers and reminding the rest that during his tenure there as VP he &#8220;claimed that Iraq could launch terrorist attacks on the US mainland.&#8221; The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}