] A top adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
] and one of the intellectual architects of the war with
] Iraq resigned his post Thursday amid an ethics
] controversy.
]
] Richard Perle resigned his chairmanship of the Defense
] Policy Board but is remaining a member of the board,
] according to the Pentagon. ] Perle, one of George W. Bush's foreign policy advisers
] during the 2000 presidential campaign, was hired last
] week by the bankrupt Global Crossing telecommunications
] company to help it restructure a deal to sell a majority
] holding in the company to Hutchison Telecommunications
] and government-run Singapore Technologies Telemedia. The
] United States government -- particularly the Defense
] Department and the FBI -- has national security concerns
] about the deal, according to The New York Times. It would
] put Global Crossing's fiber optics network -- which the
] military uses -- under Chinese ownership. | 
