Juan Cole notes that Chris Lehman, the brother of Republican 9/11 commissioner John Lehman who attacked Richard Clarke at his testimony Wednesday, worked in the Office of Special Plans. And as I pointed out previously, Lehman is also close with chief neocon Richard Perle, who once worked for Lehman's lobbying firm, Abington Corporation, back in the 1980s. The association came to light in a 1983 New York Times article which documented that then assistant secretary of defense for international affairs Richard Perle took $90,000 from an Israeli arms maker whose arms Perle then lobbied the Pentagon to buy.

Posted by Laura at March 26, 2004 05:12 AM