Heck of a job, Purdy
Crony alert.
Donald "Andy" Purdy Jr., dubya's cybersecurity chief is being paid $577,000, which is a raise of over 200% more than the previous chief. With a title like "Director of Homeland Security Department's National Cyber Security Division", he must be quite the technical whiz, right? Nope, Purdy is a rich lawyer with no formal, technical background in computer security at all. So, what's he doing? Well, for one thing he has funneled almost 1/5 of his entire budget to Carnegie Mellon University. Now, CMU is a great institution, but considering it is Purdy's former employer and is still has him on their payroll, this sounds like more than just a little conflict of interests.
Granted, this isn't as bad as Halliburton paying Cheney over $1,000,000 to get all those billions in no-bid contracts, but for those of you keeping score at home, the culture of crony is alive and well in the Bush Administration.
Donald "Andy" Purdy Jr., dubya's cybersecurity chief is being paid $577,000, which is a raise of over 200% more than the previous chief. With a title like "Director of Homeland Security Department's National Cyber Security Division", he must be quite the technical whiz, right? Nope, Purdy is a rich lawyer with no formal, technical background in computer security at all. So, what's he doing? Well, for one thing he has funneled almost 1/5 of his entire budget to Carnegie Mellon University. Now, CMU is a great institution, but considering it is Purdy's former employer and is still has him on their payroll, this sounds like more than just a little conflict of interests.
Granted, this isn't as bad as Halliburton paying Cheney over $1,000,000 to get all those billions in no-bid contracts, but for those of you keeping score at home, the culture of crony is alive and well in the Bush Administration.
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