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...percentage of the accounts are for the Pentagon but that some 40 federal agencies and other entities are affected. Some of the tapes related to non-federal card-holders, the official added. Trower would not comment on which agencies are affected, referring questions to the General Services Administration. A GSA spokesperson had no immediate response to an inquiry about the matter, including whether any of the Pentagon's billions of dollars in secret "black" programs could be affected. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the data loss includes files on 900,000 of the Pentagon's three million or so military...
...Norquist had also been in touch with top GOP lobbyist Don Fierce about the issue. Fierce, who has long represented MCI and is an ally of White House political guru Karl Rove, spoke personally to the GSA about MCI?s status as a contractor, lobbied House members to head off a provision that would have short-circuited MCI's future contracts and talked about the matter to the White House-which also tried to influence lawmakers. In addition, an associate of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani-who stands to make a reported $150 million if MCI's bankruptcy reorganization...
...GSA, general counsel Ray McKenna said he did not know if the White House had called anyone at the agency about the MCI (formerly known as WorldCom) matter. But agency officials only referred the matter to its division that handles suspension decisions in early June, after lawmakers, particularly Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, stepped up pressure on GSA to do something. McKenna said employees in that division are walled off from outside pressure. The decision Thursday to suspend MCI relied on earlier reports from individuals hired by the company to do internal inquiries, as well as KPMG...
...chief executive James Capellas maintains that the company is committed to honesty and accountability, and it hasn't protested GSA's decision for now. But the agency could take months to decide whether to formally bar MCI from government contracts; meanwhile the company can bid but can't be awarded any government work. The loss of its largest customer could, in the end, be fatal to the telecom giant, industry analysts warn...
...GSA did not even take the steps to formally consider barring MCI from government contracts until June - a year after the first revelations that the company had misrepresented its true financial condition by $11 billion through accounting fraud - the largest fraud in corporate history. The delay prompted questions on Capitol Hill, where lobbyists from the White House as well as former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani's firm were dispatched to head off a measure earlier this month that would have barred the company from future contracts. The measure was watered down and then attached to an appropriations bill which...