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In reply to the discussion: Maybe I miss it, but seems to me that one of the big elephants in the room is Booz-Allen. [View all]KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)51. And I'm sure it isn't just Booz-Allen. Who are the other parasites?
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Maybe I miss it, but seems to me that one of the big elephants in the room is Booz-Allen. [View all]
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
OP
Precisely. Abramoff was an amateur compared to what was happening at Booz Allen is my GUESS.
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#52
This is the important article: 2 DNIs were Booz Allen Hamilton VPs before the govt job
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2013
#61
I'd call it a huge elephant turd from our chewed up tax dollars. Yeah, you'd think Congress
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#11
This is why so many have the agenda of making it all about Snowden and Greenwald
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#15
LOL! Snowden made it about himself when he decided to leak info to foreign countries. He could have
KittyWampus
Jul 2013
#50
Where did you get the info that he actually gave data to foreign countries? nm
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#66
Unless I missed it, I don't think you can mention The Carlyle Group w/o naming the Bush clan.
byeya
Jul 2013
#23
This is from the Center for Global Research from 2003...can't vouch for them but I remember
byeya
Jul 2013
#42
Just because you have TS security doent mean you are allowed to access a ton of data.
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#69
Because their employees are screened by a hedge fund, that's why. It would create all kinds of
silvershadow
Jul 2013
#26
How can anyone be surprised that "lower level employees had access . . . . [to] a very large amount
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#49
That makes me feel so much better knowing he was intended to have that kind of access.
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#53
No. It really isn't intended to defend anything just to make an observation.
JDPriestly
Jul 2013
#54
I've had the highest level access to companies assets for many years now
Cronus Protagonist
Jul 2013
#57