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9. Nice Article on Booz: "How Booz Allen Made the Revolving Door Redundant"
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 02:12 PM
Jul 2013
How Booz Allen Made the Revolving Door Redundant
By Pratap Chatterjee

WASHINGTON, Jun 17 2013 (IPS) - Edward Snowden, a low-level employee of Booz Allen Hamilton who blew the whistle on the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), unexpectedly exposed a powerful and seamless segment of the military-industrial complex – the world of contractors that consumes some 70 percent of this country’s 52-billion-dollar intelligence budget.

~Snip~

To best understand this tale, one must first turn to R. James Woolsey, a former director of CIA, who appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives in the summer of 2004 to promote the idea of integrating U.S. domestic and foreign spying efforts to track “terrorists”.

One month later, he appeared on MSNBC television, where he spoke of the urgent need to create a new U.S. intelligence czar to help expand the post-9/11 national surveillance apparatus.

On neither occasion did Woolsey mention that he was employed as senior vice president for global strategic security at Booz Allen, a job he held from 2002 to 2008.

~Snip~

Booz Allen also won a chunk of the Pentagon’s infamous Total Information Awareness contract in 2001 to collect information on potential terrorists in America from phone records, credit card receipts and other databases – a controversial programme defunded by Congress in 2003 but whose spirit survived in the Prism and other initiatives disclosed by Snowden.

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Full article:

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/how-booz-allen-made-the-revolving-door-redundant/

Contractors can do things the government can't. dkf Jul 2013 #1
All Part Of The Institutional Military Industrial Complex cantbeserious Jul 2013 #2
I have to wonder if flamingdem Jul 2013 #3
I would like to know more about them too. Whisp Jul 2013 #4
Precisely. Abramoff was an amateur compared to what was happening at Booz Allen is my GUESS. JDPriestly Jul 2013 #52
Whisp, I dont think I've said this before, but I agree with you. nm rhett o rick Jul 2013 #56
Posted a long essay on that this very morning. Savannahmann Jul 2013 #5
They do business with the UAE Union Scribe Jul 2013 #6
They are part of the global 1% power-elite. nineteen50 Jul 2013 #39
Behind the Curtain: Booz Allen Hamilton and its Owner, The Carlyle Group spanone Jul 2013 #7
George H. W. Bush. xtraxritical Jul 2013 #41
It's a big elephant and a big donkey progressoid Jul 2013 #8
Nice Article on Booz: "How Booz Allen Made the Revolving Door Redundant" think Jul 2013 #9
Thank you. nm rhett o rick Jul 2013 #27
This is the important article: 2 DNIs were Booz Allen Hamilton VPs before the govt job muriel_volestrangler Jul 2013 #61
carlyle group owns booz, since 2008. HiPointDem Jul 2013 #10
Nothing wrong with good old fashion capitalism think Jul 2013 #17
What a small, small world. Octafish Jul 2013 #45
figgin' flapoodle grasswire Jul 2013 #55
oh my! nt Mojorabbit Jul 2013 #58
I'd call it a huge elephant turd from our chewed up tax dollars. Yeah, you'd think Congress KittyWampus Jul 2013 #11
They will if we unite on the things we agree on. randome Jul 2013 #14
+1000000000000000000000000000000000! SunSeeker Jul 2013 #20
Okay, now you're just making numbers up. randome Jul 2013 #22
Great synopsis of what should be focused on. think Jul 2013 #30
And they're involved in implementing the ACA Union Scribe Jul 2013 #12
My impression is they do a superb job of getting paid BeyondGeography Jul 2013 #13
This is why so many have the agenda of making it all about Snowden and Greenwald Bluenorthwest Jul 2013 #15
and especially not about Obama. nineteen50 Jul 2013 #40
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
So he's the one who decides what this is about for you? Why? Bluenorthwest Jul 2013 #68
40 billion PROFIT annually booz-allen xiamiam Jul 2013 #16
Bingo Berlum Jul 2013 #18
I've pointed that out from Day One Warpy Jul 2013 #19
Democracy Now: Spies for Hire (video) antigop Jul 2013 #21
Unless I missed it, I don't think you can mention The Carlyle Group w/o naming the Bush clan. byeya Jul 2013 #23
Is the bin Ladin family associated with the Carlyle Group? nm rhett o rick Jul 2013 #35
This is from the Center for Global Research from 2003...can't vouch for them but I remember byeya Jul 2013 #42
Thank you. nm rhett o rick Jul 2013 #47
Fault lies with CIA..they are the agency that granted him TS security HipChick Jul 2013 #24
Just because you have TS security doent mean you are allowed to access a ton of data. rhett o rick Jul 2013 #69
You are allowed whatever is needed for the project you are working on HipChick Jul 2013 #70
Bookmarking for later. Skidmore Jul 2013 #25
Because their employees are screened by a hedge fund, that's why. It would create all kinds of silvershadow Jul 2013 #26
My search on Booz-Allen found a link to the Deseret News siligut Jul 2013 #28
Why are we just going after Snowden and not the movonne Jul 2013 #29
PRISM and Other Spy Tools Segami Jul 2013 #31
Why the access? Democracyinkind Jul 2013 #32
Because they are the boss of our government. You don't investigate the boss. Cleita Jul 2013 #33
The same reason we don't look at certain groups orpupilofnature57 Jul 2013 #34
You mean USIS? Crow73 Jul 2013 #36
former CIA agent Robert Baer talked about this on pacifica yurbud Jul 2013 #37
I blame privatizing and contracting out our government security nineteen50 Jul 2013 #38
I Have Been Preaching That For Nearly A Month DallasNE Jul 2013 #43
Exactly. nm rhett o rick Jul 2013 #48
And I'm sure it isn't just Booz-Allen. Who are the other parasites? KittyWampus Jul 2013 #51
BAH is bad RVN VET Jul 2013 #44
Owned by Crlyle meaning a BUNCH of rich FOREIGNERS and their pals elehhhhna Jul 2013 #46
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
This is so true about clerks, secretaries and assistants siligut Jul 2013 #62
I've had the highest level access to companies assets for many years now Cronus Protagonist Jul 2013 #57
You missed nothing, a lot of people are purposely not mentioning them. Rex Jul 2013 #59
More on them (one bit from 2001): The Straight Story Jul 2013 #60
I think this is part of a really, really big point Doctor_J Jul 2013 #63
I agree. I also believe there is a cabal that coordinates the Corp-Rule. rhett o rick Jul 2013 #64
Damn right there is. Doctor_J Jul 2013 #65
Here's a thread on Booz-Allen-Hamilton. rhett o rick Jul 2013 #67
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