*WAYNE DOWNING: After leaving his post as Deputy National Security Advisor in 2002, Downing served his second stint on the board of Metal Storm, a small Aussie outfit that's invented an electronic supergun capable of firing one million rounds per minute (seriously). It's particularly good at vaporizing things—vehicles or people, for instance. [It's also the poster child for the Stupid Weapons Index.] *
L. PAUL BREMER: Given a Medal of Freedom despite letting $9 billion in cash go missing in Iraq and steering the country into an anarchic civil war, he's now signed on at BlastGard, makers of pricey anti-ballistic bubble-wrap. In exchange for options on 100,000 shares of stock, Bremer has promised to
"[get] this technology introduced to key decision makers."
JAMES WOOLSEY: This
Defense Policy Board hawk [and former CIA chief] holds court at Information Systems
Laboratories, an R&D-heavy firm that handles all your surveillance and "nuclear systems analysis"-related needs. Its specialty products
[from its Bosch Areospace division] include an unmanned spy blimp and an inflatable spy tower that must spark quite a few penis jokes at company HQ.
