Former Bush official runs secretive ‘Cockroaches’ group
Source: RawStory
Even if they are actually “only a bit better at surviving radiation than” humans, it has often been theorized that only cockroaches might withstand a nuclear blast and “inherit the earth.”
A Capitol Hill newspaper sheds some light on a secretive group using that nickname.
Roll Call’s Paul Singer reports, “Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) hangs out with Cockroaches.”
These are not the crunchy, skittery kind of cockroaches that terrorize your kitchen, but the well-shod Washington insider kind that gather several times a year for a high-powered confab on defense and intelligence matters.
The Cockroaches are a venerable Washington, D.C., institution that has apparently never been written about, a kind of not-so-secret society for several hundred current and former defense intelligence officials, private-sector contracting firms, lobbyists, Congressional staffers and Members of Congress. The group meets every other month or so for off-the-record dinners to discuss new developments in defense and intelligence, and to swap war stories, literally and figuratively
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