5-20-13
From left, Coleen Rowley (retired FBI agent), Thomas Drake (former NSA senior executive), Jesselyn Radack (former Dept. of Justice advisor), Snowden, Sarah Harrison (WikiLeaks journalist), and Ray McGovern (retired CIA analyst). https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vvbg8a/finding-snowden
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According to Wired, here is what Snowden was doing in 2011:
Even as his faith in the mission of US intelligence services continued to crumble, his upward climb as a trusted technical expert proceeded. In 2011 he returned to Maryland, where he spent about a year as Dell’s lead technologist working with the CIA’s account. “I would sit down with the CIO of the CIA, the CTO of the CIA, the chiefs of all the technical branches,” he says. “They would tell me their hardest technology problems, and it was my job to come up with a way to fix them.”
Snowden began working for Booz Allen in early 2013. Later that year, he provided classified documents to several journalists — including the Washington Post’s Barton Gellman — that became the source for a series of groundbreaking stories on the reach of the NSA’s surveillance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/08/13/that-time-edward-snowden-and-gen-michael-hayden-took-a-photo-together-wearing-smiles-and-tuxedos/?utm_term=.eb2952041379
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5-17-08 Carlyle Group to acquire Booz Allen
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8-10-08 Bush Sr. and Jr. with Kissinger at Beijing Olympics
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043366/Dubya-earns-stars-n-stripes-U-S-Olympic-fan-Beijing.html
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6-13-13 Though Booz Allen’s role is to verify that the access to the (US surveillance project named) SWIFT data is not abused, its relationship with the U.S. Government calls its objectivity significantly into question.
Among Booz Allen’s senior consulting staff are several former members of the intelligence community, including a former Director of the CIA and a former director of the NSA.
As noted by Barry Steinhardt, an ACLU director, “It’s bad enough that the [Bush] administration is trying to hold out a private company as a substitute for genuine checks and balances on its surveillance activities. But of all companies to perform audits on a secret surveillance program, it would be difficult to find one less objective and more intertwined with the U.S. government security establishment.”…
The parent, The Carlyle Group, the third largest private equity firm in the world with assets approaching $200 billion, is also run and managed by individuals with feet in both camps — to wit:
James Baker, currently a Carlyle senior counselor, was President George H. W. Bush’s secretary of state;
George W. Bush, the former president of the United States, serves as senior adviser to the Carlyle Asia Advisory Board;
Frank Carlucci, former secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, also served Carlyle as its chairman from 1989 to 2005;
Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H. W. Bush, also served Carlyle as its managing director and then as a senior adviser.
And so on.
The light of day now causing public relations problems for Booz Allen Hamilton and its parent, The Carlyle Group, began with the decision by Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden to warn Americans of the dangers to their privacy.
-A graduate of Cornell University and a former investment advisor, Bob Adelmann is a regular contributor to The New American magazine and blogs frequently at www.LightFromTheRight.com, primarily on economics and politics. He can be reached at badelmann@thenewamerican.com
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5-27-15 In March, The Washington Post described cybersecurity law as “the latest hot job in the Washington revolving door.” Robert Mueller, the recently retired director of the FBI, had just joined the national-security law practice of WilmerHale. One of his latest tasks? Advising Keith Alexander as he tries to tamp down congressional outrage over his decision to hire two NSA officials, one of whom planned to work simultaneously for IronNet and the agency (he later withdrew).
Well, enough, you might say: Isn’t this simply a continuation of Washington’s historic revolving door?
The answer is no. As I see it, the cyberintelligence- industrial complex is qualitatively different from—and more dangerous than—the military-industrial complex identified by President Eisenhower in his famous farewell address. This is because its implications for democracy, inequality, and secrecy are far more insidious.
It is not new for American defense policies to be shaped by and for the 1 percent. Throughout US history, diplomatic and national-security officials have come directly from the ruling elite, and more often than not they have served those interests while in office. Allen and John Foster Dulles, the brothers and law partners who headed the CIA and the State Department during the Eisenhower administration, were classic examples, running multiple operations to support their own clients. -Shorrock
https://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
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