February 23, 2005

WASHINGTON — The Iraq war helped bring record earnings to St. Louis-based defense contractor Engineered Support Systems Inc., and new financial data show that the firm's war-related profits have trickled down to a familiar family name — Bush.

William H.T. "Bucky" Bush, uncle of the president and youngest brother of former President George H.W. Bush, cashed in ESSI stock options last month with a net value of nearly half a million dollars.
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"Personally, I could not be more happy about our company's prospects," Potthoff told stock analysts.

The Pentagon is promoting a global counterterrorism plan that would allow Special Operations forces to enter a foreign country to conduct military operations without explicit concurrence from the U.S. ambassador there, administration officials familiar with the plan said.

The plan would weaken the long-standing "chief of mission" authority under which the U.S. ambassador, as the president's top representative in a foreign country, decides whether to grant entry to U.S. government personnel based on political and diplomatic considerations.
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Without close coordination with the CIA, former senior intelligence officials said, the military could target someone whom the CIA is secretly surveilling and disrupt a flow of valuable intelligence.

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Pam Bricker, R.I.P.
Very sad news: our dear friend, Pam Bricker passed away on Sunday. Pam was an accomplished jazz musician and sang for many years with Thievery Corporation.
I met Pam for the first time on Nantucket Island. She and her husband, bOING bOING senior editor Gareth Branwyn, and son Blake invited Carla and I to stay with them at an inn there where she was singing. I loved her performance and became an instant fan.

We will miss her very much. Goodbye Pammy!

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