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suffragette

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22. "Only last month, the Navy awarded Booz Allen,
Sun Jun 16, 2013, 12:08 PM
Jun 2013

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 government’s 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. Bush’s national security adviser. “He brought a real sense of the private sector to the intelligence world, and it needed it.”
If you don't read another thing on DU today, folks, you should read this. Melinda Jun 2013 #1
the commodification of the security state like everything else designed to strip cash from people Agony Jun 2013 #2
I made a "Panopticon" video Generic Other Jun 2013 #3
I wished on a shooting star...it was a satellite.... Junkdrawer Jun 2013 #4
Chilling Generic Other Jun 2013 #6
We're now in the Anthropocene Era... Junkdrawer Jun 2013 #7
Drake and Binney noise Jun 2013 #5
Thank you for bring that to my attention... Junkdrawer Jun 2013 #8
kickeroo frylock Jun 2013 #9
Does it matter stupidicus Jun 2013 #10
Point taken, Junkdrawer Jun 2013 #11
I completely agree. stupidicus Jun 2013 #12
Your answer raises an important question: What is the behavior that makes one a suspect? reusrename Jun 2013 #24
good point stupidicus Jun 2013 #25
There's such an ugliness at the core of this, the authoritarianism, the chilling of speech, suffragette Jun 2013 #13
+1 woo me with science Jun 2013 #14
The more the 1% screws the 99%, the more paranoid the 1% becomes... Junkdrawer Jun 2013 #15
Exactly. I keep thinking of HBGary, when they went after Wikileaks and liberal groups suffragette Jun 2013 #16
A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet. Savannahmann Jun 2013 #17
Excellent and thought provoking post. Thank you. nt UtahLib Jun 2013 #18
Google for Tyrants is right! This is an incredibly scary tool! n/t backscatter712 Jun 2013 #19
"Just remember: before the dust settles, all is not always what it seems." Junkdrawer Jun 2013 #20
Sunday Morning Kick Junkdrawer Jun 2013 #21
"Only last month, the Navy awarded Booz Allen, suffragette Jun 2013 #22
Impossible now for all this to stay undercover. And I'm not convinced they want it secret. Junkdrawer Jun 2013 #23
KICK! Rex Jul 2013 #26
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