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In reply to the discussion: Are we watching the Outing or the Rollout of the Panopticon... err I mean PRISM? [View all]suffragette
(12,232 posts)22. "Only last month, the Navy awarded Booz Allen,
among others, the first contracts in a billion-dollar project to help with a new generation of intelligence, surveillance and combat operations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/us/after-profits-defense-contractor-faces-the-pitfalls-of-cybersecurity.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Hmm, as you note in the OP, "outing or rollout?"
Another aspect that caught my eye from this article was the push by someone who revolved from leadership at NSA to executive at a private contractor lobbying while in a government agency for changes to laws impacting privacy with resultant huge increases in profits for the company he returned to, from $25 million in 2010 to $219 million by this March.
So in 2007, as the intelligence chief, he lobbied Congress for revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to eliminate some of the most burdensome rules on the N.S.A., including that it obtain a warrant when spying on two foreigners abroad simply because they were using a wired connection that flowed through a computer server or switch inside the United States.
It made no sense in the modern age, he argued. Now if it were wireless, we would not be required to get a warrant, he told The El Paso Times in August of that year.
The resulting changes in both law and legal interpretations led to many of the steps including the governments collection of logs of telephone calls made in and out of the country that have been debated since Mr. Snowden began revealing the extent of such programs. Then Mr. McConnell put them into effect.
In 2007, Mike came back into government with a 100-day plan and a 500-day plan for the intelligence community, said Stephen J. Hadley, Mr. Bushs national security adviser. He brought a real sense of the private sector to the intelligence world, and it needed it.
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Are we watching the Outing or the Rollout of the Panopticon... err I mean PRISM? [View all]
Junkdrawer
Jun 2013
OP
the commodification of the security state like everything else designed to strip cash from people
Agony
Jun 2013
#2
Your answer raises an important question: What is the behavior that makes one a suspect?
reusrename
Jun 2013
#24
There's such an ugliness at the core of this, the authoritarianism, the chilling of speech,
suffragette
Jun 2013
#13
Exactly. I keep thinking of HBGary, when they went after Wikileaks and liberal groups
suffragette
Jun 2013
#16
Impossible now for all this to stay undercover. And I'm not convinced they want it secret.
Junkdrawer
Jun 2013
#23