one thing i've been trying to work out, forever, is how kevin kellems fits into the scheme of things.
Kellems is one of the cronies that Wolfowitz took over to the WorldBank. Kellems was Wolfowitz' spokesman at the Pentagon, then took the same job with Cheney, and then onto the WorldBank with the Wolf.
Prior to that, Kellems had a PR business with a woman called Melissa Dollaghan - as it happens, she worked at the famous Group W - which was Brent Wilkes' 'marketing' company - with repuglican operative Michael Mack and Joel Combs, indicted nephew of Wilkes, who happened to work in the anthrax biz before joining the family operation, which also happened to be in the anthrax biz, officially.
Melissa Dollaghan used to work with Brian Bilbray, and Slade Gordon, and married the local Poway Assemblyman - (the poor Assemblyman guy was shocked, shocked to learn that there were shenanigans involved and promptly returned all the money he'd been given by Wilkes)
Are you confused yet? Forget all that stuff about Wilkes and Dollaghan etc, that was (mostly) just an irrelevant detour. Kevin Kellems worked for Wolfowitz, then Cheney, and then Wolfowitz again at the World Bank.
Wolfowitz was named in Giraldi's "100% right" article about Sibel's case - and I've previously written about how the World Bank report on heroin magically ignored Turkey's role in the whole game. Now, I've just stumbled back across Nur al-Cubicle (which has done a lot of great work in the past) and found this (unsupported):
"The job of Kevin Kellems (at World Bank) is apparently official censor. "The G.U.T.! Finally. We've got Sibel, Wilkes, World Bank, Cheney, Pentagon, heroin - and everything!
On a somewhat more serious note - I wouldn't be surprised if we could learn a lot by tracking people who moved from the Pentagon to OVP and vice-versa. Eric Edelman, who features strongly in Sibel's case, is one of the most prominent (he was nearly Libby-level within the OVP before being given Grossman's old job as ambassador to Turkey, then he took Feith's old job at Pentagon), and we've got Kellems (OVP, Pentagon, World Bank) - are there any others that we can think of? Laura has had all sorts of trouble getting a list of people who even work in Cheney's office. I wonder why.
(update: Kellems resigns)
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I don't really have anything substantial to add, but it's a slow Sunday morning, and this, , is too good to pass up:
Surrounded by his Praetorian Guard, Wolfowitz insulated himself at the World Bank from the career staff. There, as at the Pentagon, Wolfowitz pushed aside the professionals and replaced them with a small band of politically reliable assistants. Wolfowitz rewarded them, too, on his own authority, with enormous tax-free salaries. Consider Kevin Kellems, his public affairs officer at the Pentagon, who had guided conservative media from that perch and is known as "keeper of the comb," for having been the person to hand Wolfowitz the infamous comb he licked before slicking down his hair in the Michael Moore film "Fahrenheit 9/11." Kellems was given a salary of $240,000, at least equal to what World Bank vice presidents with years of service earn.
Er...damn...Blogger frelling with my html again. The missing bit between the commas should read "from Sidney Blumenthal" and should be the link.
(Does anybody know why that happens? It always looks fine in the preview.)
starroute - thnx.
i'm not specifically sure how to avoid that problem.
presumably you didn't close the tags properly...
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