MZM Played Role in Pre-war Intel. Fiasco

So what's wrong with privatizing every damn thing imaginable? This is just one example of what's wrong with it. The contractors are even more corrupt than the government, and that's going some, these days.

TPMmuckraker July 11, 2006 11:45 AM:

Buried in this new Business Week article by Eamon Javers and Dawn Kopecki is a startling revelation: MZM Inc., the company once owned by admitted felon Mitchell Wade, worked on assessing Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities during the runup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

[B]efore the invasion of Iraq,' the duo writes, '[MZM's business] included helping with [the] controversial analysis of Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities.'

Wade, of course, has confessed to bribing former Rep. Randy 'Duke' Cunningham (R-CA) with over a million dollars in money, gifts and favors.