Intelligence Expert Uncovers Disturbing Details of how Corporations Provide Content for Pres. Brief

[OhioChick]

Intelligence Expert Uncovers Disturbing Details of how Corporations Provide Content for the President's Daily Brief

NEW YORK, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In our Intelligence Community, employees of corporations are handling sensitive government responsibilities including analytical products that are incorporated into our nation's most important and sensitive document, the President's Daily Brief. Intelligence expert Dr. R.J. Hillhouse who revealed the surprising details commented, "Thanks to outsourcing, for-profit companies have the American president's ear on a daily basis and their words carry the weight of the combined intelligence agencies of the United States. The possibilities for manipulating politics on a global scale are unprecedented and chilling." The President's Daily Brief is a summary and analysis of national security issues that requires the President's immediate attention and that the National Intelligence Director presents to the President each morning.

Across the board, U.S. government intelligence agencies are now highly dependent upon the staff of companies for critical national security functions. Corporate intelligence professionals from companies such as Lockheed, Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC and others are thoroughly integrated into analytical divisions throughout the Intelligence Community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence which produces the final document of the President's Daily Briefing, based upon analytical products created by the Intelligence Community. "It would be hard to find an analytical product that does not have contractor involvement in some way, shape, or form. And it's not just the products. Raw intelligence gathered by contractors also goes into the pipeline," Dr. Hillhouse says. "These analytical products from multiple agencies are sifted through, probably in part by contractors, and presented to the President every day as the U.S. Government's most accurate and most current assessment of priority national security issues. It's true that the government pays for and signs off on the assessment, but much of the analysis and even some of the underlying intelligence gathering is corporate." Corporations have so penetrated the Intelligence Community that it's impossible to distinguish their work from the government's. Although, the President's Daily Brief has the seal of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, it is misleading. "For full disclosure, the PDB really should look more like NASCAR with corporate logos plastered all over it."

Dr. Hillhouse warns of the dangers. "Theoretically, if a corporation wanted to manipulate the national security agenda, it could introduce something into the system and no one would realize what's happening, particularly since these companies have analysts and often intelligence collectors spread throughout the system. For argument's sake, let's say a company is frustrated with a government that's hampering its business or business of one of its clients. Introducing and spinning intelligence on that government's suspected collaboration with terrorists would quickly get the White House's attention and could be used to shape national policy. To get us into the Iraq war, manipulation of intelligence regarding alleged weapons of mass destruction had to be very artfully done to short-circuit a formidable bureaucracy designed to prevent just such warping of intelligence. Due to the shift toward wide-scale industrial outsourcing in the Intelligence Community, that safeguard has been eroded. You no longer need flaky sources like 'Curveball.' A much slicker job could now go undetected for years. This is particularly frightening when you realize the War on Terror is fought by a $100 billion plus industry."

Solutions are readily available, Dr. Hillhouse points out. "There's really no need to move this service from the private sector back into government. The tools are already there in the private sector that could be applied, at least in concept, to monitor for any suspicious activity. It's a matter of leadership by the DNI."

An expert on the intelligence and military outsourcing, Dr. Hillhouse is the author of a new book, Outsourced. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post and she is a frequent media guest.

http://sev.prnewswire.com/books/20070723/NYM03123072007-1.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. One word:

Oy.

[atreides1]

2. So Basically

Dr. Hillhouse is "Theoretically" saying these corporations could commit treason by planting false information to get the WH to attack another country?

Is that what happened with Iraq, were one of these corporations that wanted access, responsible for starting a war that has resulted in death and destruction?

Or was this whole Iraq thing started by a WH who wanted access to resouces that didn't belong to them? Which means that the government intel community or better yet its leaders padded the WMD reports with information from operatives like 'Curveball'?

In other words who started the war the corporate intel people, or those loyal Americans who work for the CIA, DIA, and other governmental agencies?

[madhoosier]

3. The Bush administration has sabotaged America's ability to gather intelligence,

Why has the Bush administration purged non-loyalists from the CIA and State Department? Their agenda of regime change needs faulty intelligence to build a false case for invading other countries, which also explains the outing of Valerie Plame, the leak to Ahmed Chalabi that compromised the NSA intercepts of the Iranian diplomatic code, the leak that identified Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, who was a Pakistani computer communications expert that Pakistan had turned into a double agent giving them a direct window into the inner workings of al Qaeda and the release in December of 2001 of the clandestinely filmed tape of Osama bin Laden talking to the crippled Saudi Sheik about the attacks of 9/11. What can explain the audacity it takes to destroy your own nation’s ability to gather timely and accurate intelligence to advance a policy of starting wars of aggression? Can you imagine the outrage in the media had Bill Clinton’s administration had compromised America’s intelligence community with these acts?

[leveymg]

9. Can you imagine the outrage in the media if the Left had purged the Right in the 1950s?

The so-called Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) is just an extension of that same pattern of ideologically-justified takeover of Government power in the United States that goes back to the McCarthy era. It's the major multinational oil companies and banks, certain autocratic foreign powers, and defense contractors who are really behind this power grab.

See, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1429754&mesg_id=1432684

[marmar]

4. The Corporate Fascist States of America.....

Smedley Butler warned us.....

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. I am of two minds on this.

I believe that business interests, new sciences, problems of supply, bribe efforts, instability in foreign lands are just an example of what our dear leader needs to know and needs to be briefed on daily.

I also feel strongly that relying solely on business to provide some data which gives them the opportunity to self promote, well, that should NOT be part of a briefing.


A great example is boeing. Now a chicago corporation, they had their best quarter in years. They used to be mainly a military supplier, and their future would go up and down on the whims of congress. When they took aim at the civil side, and quasi military side, they changed the way that they did business. and became more flexible.

Should they report to the president (and our intel agencies) that the chinese are putting pressure on the Swedish component manufacturers of the 787 to try to bribe and steal some new techniques for joining plastics, aluminum and steel parts (which I believe is happening)? Is that something that could have national security, economic, social and other impacts? you betcha.

Of course, I am describing an eden-like world. the real world, under the direction of Bush and company, well, the worst we fear about such developments (in the original thread) probably are naive, and the reality is far, far worse.

[leveymg]

6. One good example: MZM, which provided phony Iraq WMD assessments

demanded by WHIG after CIA Counter-Proliferation Division, which employed Valerie Plame as a key Iraq program manager, refused to support the Administration's claims that Saddam Hussein was importing aluminum tubes to build uranium enrichment centrifuges.

Also, the nation's largest telecoms in combination with large defense contractors jointly operate huge databases that now spy on practically all Americans. All commercially available data is combined with NSA and DHS electronic surveillance to develop a "terrorist potential" profile on everyone in the United States. This is what James Comey rushed to John Ashcroft's hospital bedside to try to stop.

That's what this is getting at.

[formercia]

7. Corporations give the customer what they want

Intelligence as a service industry.

No pesky career analyst, that you can't get rid of easily, telling you what you don't want to hear.

[leveymg]

8. No wonder, the decision-maker has always been referred to as the "consumer" of intelligence.

[formercia]

10. You noticed that?

How strange.

Taking flipping burgers to new heights.

"Have it your Way."

Home of the Whopper.

[formercia]

11. You are what you eat. n/t