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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes BushCo. have access to NSA data collected by Booz Allen?
Does Dick Cheney have an underground lair where he can tap in at will to private contractor databases?
In short, are the owners of these private contractors privy to all data collected?
pscot
(21,024 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)There's something very wrong about that.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)databases available?
alsame
(7,784 posts)according to Seymour Hersh
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/03/31/37200/hersh-cheney-behind/
In an interview on NPRs Fresh Air yesterday, host Terry Gross asked investigative journalist Seymour Hersh if, as he continues to investigate the Bush administration, more people were coming forward to talk to him now that the president and vice president are no longer in power. Hersh replied that though a lot of people that had told me in the last year of Bush, call me next, next February, not many people had talked to him. He implied that they were still scared of Cheney.
Are you saying that you think Vice President Cheney is still having a chilling effect on people who might otherwise be coming forward, asked Gross. Ill make it worse, answered Hersh, adding that he believes Cheney put people back in government to stay behind in order to tell him whats going on and perhaps even do sabotage:
HERSH: Ill make it worse. I think hes put people left. Hes put people back. They call it a stay behind. Its sort of an intelligence term of art. When you leave a country and, you know, youve driven out the, you know, youve lost the war. You leave people behind. Its a stay behind that you can continue to contacts with, to do sabotage, whatever you want to do. Cheneys left a stay behind. Hes got people in a lot of agencies that still tell him whats going on. Particularly in defense, obviously. Also in the NSA, theres still people that talk to him. He still knows whats going on. Can he still control policy up to a point? Probably up to a point, a minor point. But hes still there. Hes still a presence.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)it would be fantasy to believe that he severed all ties to the agency ...
and guess who could benefit from his contacts?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)A secret, back-channel group of wealthy nations, especially with petrodollars, that worked together with CIA insiders to implement policies thay Jimmy Carter ordered halted.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=494473&mesg_id=495108
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Sure, they worked hard for years and years to get to a place where they could spy on all their enemies, but they are good Americans who wouldn't use their acquired power once out of office.
Shame on you for even thinking that. You might cause alarm within the populace and cause them to not vote.
Bush told us that we need to get rid of some freedom in order that we have more freedoms. And, Go Shopping!