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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]think
(11,641 posts)9. Nice Article on Booz: "How Booz Allen Made the Revolving Door Redundant"
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 countrys 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 Pentagons 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/
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 countrys 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 Pentagons 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.
~Snip~
Full article:
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/how-booz-allen-made-the-revolving-door-redundant/
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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