RE: Re: Carlisle group

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

I haven't been paying attention to this issue, but I heard the newsreader on
U.S. National Public Radio refer to the producers of the Crusader cannon as
being owned by the Carlisle group _at present_.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Perelman [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 9:14 AM
> To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PEN-L:25755] Re: Carlisle group
>
>
> But they did win.  They created the impression that the
> Crusader would be
> purchased.  Then sold that division off as an IPO, took the
> profits, and
> laughed all the way to the bank.
>
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:06:24AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
> > I thank Charles J. for posting so many messages about the
> Carlisle (sp?)
> > Group, a corporation that profits from its enormous
> influence with the U.S.
> > government (and other governments) because it's stocked
> with veterans of the
> > old Bush administration. But it's important to remember
> that there are
> > limits to their influence: one of their subsidiaries
> produces the Crusader
> > cannon (a poorly-named weapon in view of U.S. allies like
> Saudi Arabia, BTW)
> > but that item is being rejected by "Defense" secretary
> Donald Rumsfeld. They
> > may win in the end -- foisting an expensive and wasteful
> weapon on the U.S.
> > taxpayers and the world -- but it's good to see that they
> don't have total
> > power.
> >
> > Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> >
>
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