Edward Snowden and Washington's revolving-door culture

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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/06/20136128178530929.html



The recent NSA leak reveals the disturbing extent to which the US' government and corporate sectors have merged.

Edward Snowden and Washington's revolving-door culture
Nikolas Kozloff
Last Modified: 12 Jun 2013 15:53

In the wake of the Edward Snowden controversy - the National Security Agency whistleblower who revealed secret US government surveillance programmes - the Obama administration has been forced on the defensive and obliged to answer uncomfortable questions about the extent and power of government eavesdropping.

The scandal, however, has also placed a spotlight on Washington's revolving-door culture between private contractors and official government agencies. As further details emerge, it seems increasingly clear that Snowden's company Booz Allen Hamilton has been able to amass unprecedented power over the nation's affairs. In a perversion of democracy, Booz Allen now handles everything from consulting services to technology support and analysis for the Obama administration.

Americans might be surprised to learn of the extent and scope of government outsourcing. Booz Allen holds a contract to provide IT modernisation and support to key Justice Department agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Executive Office for United States Attorneys.

Snowden's company, which receives nearly all of its funding from the federal government, is in turn owned by private equity firm Carlyle Group. According to Forbes magazine, the Booz Allen sale has proven very lucrative for Carlyle, netting a whopping $2bn for the firm so far. A corporation known for its ties to insider politicians, Carlyle once employed none other than George Herbert Walker Bush as an adviser. His son George W, meanwhile, served on the board of directors of Carterair, an airline food company which was later acquired by Carlyle.

[xchrom]

1. Du rec. Nt

[gsosbee]

2. Snowden suffers on behalf of mankind!

" Where are the Snowdens of yesterday" (Heller). Give this Snowden a medal!



Congress (intel committees) know all about **NSA surveillance, but play like such trickery protects the USA; in reality, covert intel operations of the kind I describe brings great harm to US. Note that surveillance is simply a cover story for the moment. The real *issues that derive from such hi tech chicanery are: harassment, threats, torture, attempted murder, murder.



Mike Rogers and Dianne Feinstein of the congress have an affirmative duty to the people to address the atrocities ongoing by the fbi/cia/nsa/etc. So far, they have dodged their responsibility. Why!



http://lissakr11humane.com/2012/09/08/collapse-of-the-constitutional-government-of-the-united-states-of-america-by-geral-sosbee/


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http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part4-worldinabo.html




The fbi are traitors; a murderer is less to fear.



http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v194/__show_article/_a000194-000518.htm






Torture:

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/hightechassau.html




**Covert NSA Operations:

http://www.whale.to/b/nsa7.html



criminal cyberstalker for fbi for years:

http://www.phillyimc.org/en/introducing-fbi-operative-j-robert-upton


http://sosbeevfbi.ning.com/profiles/blogs/police-come-to-my-home-on-fishing-expedition?xg_source=activity