I was surprised by the lack of information coming out on this developing story today. Some small and potentially benign (but interesting) connections were figured out.
The Associated Press later identified Stanley, Inc. as the Virginia-based contractor whose two employees were terminated. One prescient blogger who guessed correctly that Stanley was the contractor in question noted that its CEO is a GOP donor:
…[O]ne thing that would add to the appearance of impropriety is that CEO Nolan has, according to the Open Secrets database, been a campaign contributor to Sen. Joe Lieberman, a leading supporter of Obama’s Republican adversary John McCain. In March 2005 Nolan gave $1,000 to Lieberman’s reelection campaign.
The NBC News ‘Deep Background’ blog has more on Stanley and its CEO, including the revelation that Nolan “gave $1,000 to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on Feb. 20, 2008.”
What do they usually say? follow the money?
TAGS: election, GOP, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, mccain, obama, Passport, Sports, warStanley, Inc., is headquartered in Arlington, Va. The State Department awarded it a contract for $164 million in 2006, to print and mail millions of new U.S. passports. Stanley announced on Monday that it was awarded an additional $570 million contract to “continue support of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs/Passport Services Directorate.”
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March 22nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
[...] Stanley Inc., (one of the companies whose employees breached candidate’s passports), may have donated money to Lieberman and Clinton, but now it turns out that the CEO of Analysis Corp., (the other company that did the same), is [...]