Nov 18 2007

State Department official and brother queried on Blackwater

Just a reminder,

I am working on the following story for an early morning release tomorrow.  The concept is to compile as much known information about the situation into one semi coherent essay.  If anyone has research or posts relating to this in any way please post it in the comments.

State Department official and brother queried on Blackwater

Rep. Henry Waxman decided to call State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard and his brother A.B. “Buzzy” to the same hearing after they separately gave the committee conflicting accounts about Buzzy Krongard’s ties with Blackwater, which protects U.S. diplomats and other State Department officials in Iraq.

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2 comments

  1. to the House Oversight and Govt Reform Committee.  FYI – you can subscribe to its news bulletins via any online reader.

    I’ll be interested in reading what you post.

  2. From the Princeton almuni website.

    A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard ’58 once punched a great white shark in the head on a bet. He practices lethal martial arts with an intensity that is frightening. And the only guns he collects are ones he can use.

    So when the Bankers Trust New York vice-chairman announced earlier this year that he was retiring after 27 years as an investment banker, nobody expected him to pass his golden years strolling the fairways. Golf is “just too darn slow,” he growls.

    Instead, at 61, Krongard signed on with the company — the CIA. That’s right. The Central Intelligence Agency. Spooks. Classified briefings. Krongard has left behind high finance to jet around the world clandestinely as counselor to CIA Director George Tenet. The CIA created the job for him.

    Buzzy sounds like a real piece of work.

     

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