Connecting the Dots

Via Josh Marshall, Laura Rozen connects two important dots in the Cunningham -US Attorneys - Gonzales - Rove mystery:

From 1991 to 1993, a young lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve was working as a program manager in a Pentagon intelligence office. His name was Mitchell John Wade. His boss, the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, was Duane P. Andrews. Andrews's job at the Pentagon was essentially to serve as intelligence advisor to the secretary of defense. The secretary of defense at the time was someone that Andrews knew well and respected immensely: Dick Cheney...

Among the many lingering unanswered questions on this aspect of the case is who, in May 2002 -- just two months in advance of Wade getting the White House contract -- facilitated MZM getting authorized to be a federal supplier in the first place. This was done through a small branch of the Department of the Interior called the Minerals Management Service. That service and the Department itself have reportedly become the subject of their own sprawling corruption probe.


Wade, recall, is the convicted Cunningham briber who trail is also entangled with other Congressmen involved in getting Carol Lam fired.

Cheney is a rich guy who doesn't need any piddling bribes from Wade and friends, so who put the fix in? And why would Rove and Cheney want to protect them? It's a puzzle.

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