Movers and Shakers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Joseph E. Schmitz

Friday, 29 August 2008

Joseph E. Schmitz

General Joseph Edward Schmitz - Inspector General o/t Dept. of Defense; COO Blackwater USA; General Counsel o/t Prince Group

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Joseph Edward Schmitz is an American lawyer, former Inspector General of the Department of Defense and [s]a former[/s] an executive with Blackwater USA, a private contractor providing security services to the U.S. State Department and the U.S. military. Biography Joseph Edward Schmitz is the son of the John G. Schmitz, former California State Senator, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. Presidential candidate (1972). Schmitz attended Catholic schools as a child and Georgetown Preparatory School while his father served in Congress. He holds a B.S. (1978) from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and a J.D. (1986) from Stanford University. He was on the wrestling team at the Naval Academy. His siblings include Mary Kay Letourneau and John Patrick Schmitz.[1] Upon graduation from the Naval Academy, Schmitz served in the U.S. Navy for approximately four years, including a stint as an exchange officer with the German Navy. Schmitz left active duty and was in the Naval Reserve until 2001. After leaving active duty, Schmitz attended law school. He clerked with James L. Buckley, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was a special assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese III during the Reagan Administration. Schmitz entered the private sector in 1987, eventually joining the Washington, D.C., firm of Patton Boggs LLP.[2] He was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University in the 1990s. He is a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[3]

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Joseph Edward Schmitz is an American lawyer, former Inspector General of the Department of Defense and [s]a former[/s] an executive with Blackwater USA, a private contractor providing security services to the U.S. State Department and the U.S. military.

Biography

Joseph Edward Schmitz is the son of the John G. Schmitz, former California State Senator, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. Presidential candidate (1972). Schmitz attended Catholic schools as a child and Georgetown Preparatory School while his father served in Congress. He holds a B.S. (1978) from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and a J.D. (1986) from Stanford University. He was on the wrestling team at the Naval Academy. His siblings include Mary Kay Letourneau and John Patrick Schmitz.[1]

Upon graduation from the Naval Academy, Schmitz served in the U.S. Navy for approximately four years, including a stint as an exchange officer with the German Navy. Schmitz left active duty and was in the Naval Reserve until 2001. After leaving active duty, Schmitz attended law school. He clerked with James L. Buckley, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was a special assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese III during the Reagan Administration. Schmitz entered the private sector in 1987, eventually joining the Washington, D.C., firm of Patton Boggs LLP.[2] He was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University in the 1990s.

He is a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._Schmitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Knights_of_Malta

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Blackwater Worldwide CEO for the Prince Group (2005-) Patton Boggs Baker Botts Federalist Society Knights of Malta 1999 US English Board of Directors, Counsel of Record German Ancestry

http://www.nndb.com/people/466/000104154/

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Mr. Schmitz graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1978, and received his J.D. degree from Stanford University in 1986. He has served on the Steering Committee of the Washington Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, and is a Young Leader Alumnus of the American Council on Germany. In 1999, he was invested into the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

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Mr. Schmitz graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1978, and received his J.D. degree from Stanford University in 1986. He has served on the Steering Committee of the Washington Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, and is a Young Leader Alumnus of the American Council on Germany. In 1999, he was invested into the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/_dsp/dsp_authorBio3.cfm?authID=10 (Proof Positive)

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Mr. Schmitz graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1978 and received his J.D. degree from Stanford University in 1986. He is a Young Leader Alumnus of the American Council on Germany, and a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

http://www.bethesdahosting.com/dsp_comp_board.asp

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Senior Blackwater executives such as Joseph Schmitz do not only subscribe to the theocon ideology but are also members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Christian militia that had a mission of defending territories the Crusaders captured from Muslims.

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1460

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In addition to Prince, “A number of Blackwater executives are deeply conservative Christians, including corruption-smeared former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, who is also a member of the Sovereign Order of Malta, which Scahill describes as `a Christian militia formed in the eleventh century [to defend] `territories that the Crusaders had conquered from the Moslems,’” Chris Barsanti wote in a review of the book for In These Times.

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In addition to Prince, “A number of Blackwater executives are deeply conservative Christians, including corruption-smeared former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, who is also a member of the Sovereign Order of Malta, which Scahill describes as `a Christian militia formed in the eleventh century [to defend] `territories that the Crusaders had conquered from the Moslems,’” Chris Barsanti wote in a review of the book for In These Times.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/09/black...r-dead-iraqi-civilians/