Bush’s No 4 and 5 top corporate campaign donors

[FreakinDJ]

Both have Bobby Inman working for them

It is the country's largest employee-owned research and engineering company, chalking up revenue of $5.9 billion in 2002. SAIC's largest customer by far is the U.S. government, which accounts for 69 percent of its business

Iraq contracts

SAIC has been in charge of the Iraqi Reconstruction and Development Council, a Pentagon-sanctioned group made up of Iraqis that is effectively functioning as the country's temporary government.

Another Pentagon contract calls for SAIC to, in effect, rebuild Iraq's mass media, including television stations, radio stations and newspapers

Its initial solution was to enlist Voice of America, the foreign language broadcasting service of the U.S. government

A Pentagon FOIA officer said keeping the information secret "was an appropriate way to avoid substantial competitive harm to the contractor" and was "due to the sensitive nature of the Iraqi contracts." SAIC officials referred all media calls to the Pentagon.

Bobby Ray Inman resigned from SAIC's board in October 2003 after reaching the company's mandatory retirement age of 72. He had served on the board since 1982, when he retired as an admiral in the U.S. Navy. While on active duty, Inman served as director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of Central Intelligence.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=51

Bobby R. Inman, a board member since 1985, is a retired admiral who served as director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He also sits on the board of Science Applications International Corporation, a large defense contractor.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=21

…This Bobby Inman sounds more like a CIA operative then a corporate board member. Given the CIA’s important role in Controlling information would say he is doing his job well.

[enough]

1. Profiteering USED to be a dirty word

Now it's just business as usual.

[FreakinDJ]

2. What is more important

This fellow Bobby Inman is Ex Navy with assignments in the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.

This guy sounds experienced in Black Ops then any thing else. I know personally the CIA uses front corporations to front it's operations

So my question is more of is the Bush campaign using CIA Ops companies and our tax dollars to fund its campaign. works rather nicely given CIA expenditures are a secrete

[bigtree]

3. My two pennies on SAIC

Vinnell Corporation, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, was awarded a $48 million contract to train the nucleus of a new Iraqi Army. Vinnell's subcontracts its work to MPRI, Military Professional Resources Incorporated , SAIC, Science Applications International Corp; Eagle Group International Inc, Omega Training Group ; and Worldwide Language Resources. http://www.vinnell.com /

Science Applications International Corp. has an affinity for this administration and their ambitions in Iraq. Based in San Diego, the company had two recent contracts totaling $166 million to upgrade the Royal Saudi Naval Forces' communications and command systems. http://www.saic.com /

SAIC bills itself as the largest employee-owned research and engineering firm in the nation. SAIC takes in over $5.9 billion, reflecting a growth rate of 2 percent over the previous year's revenues of $5.8 billion. About two thirds came from the U.S. Treasury, mostly from the defense budget.

SAIC was turned down in an $200 million attempt to purchase Aerospace Corp., in 1996.

The top five executives at Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego made between $825,000 and $1.8 million in salaries in 2001, and held more than $1.5 million in stock options.

Gen. Wayne Downing (U.S. Army retired), a SAIC consultant served as a lobbyist before the war for the U.S.-backed Iraqi National Congress and its head, Ahmad Chalabi. Downing also served on the board of the PNAC dominated, Committee for the Liberation of Iraq.

Ret. Gen. William Owens, another former high-level military officer who sits on the boards of five companies that received millions in defense contracts, last year served as president, chief operating officer and vice chair of SAIC. Owens is also member of the Defense Policy Board which advises defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The Center for Public Integrity has reported that, of the 30 Defense Policy Board members, nine have ties to companies that won more than $76 billion in defense contracts last year.

Former SAIC executives include Retired Admiral Bobby Inman Secretary Melvin Laird, ex-CIA Director Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense WilliamPerry, and former CIA Director John Deutch. A joint venture between SAIC and Bechtel, Bechtel SAIC Company will help manage and operate the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage program and support extensive DOE studies of Yucca Mountain's geology, hydrology, and climate. SAIC has more than 19 years of continuous service at Yucca Mountain

In 1987 Congress directed DOE to study Yucca Mountain exclusively. This site is located in remote desert terrain in Nye County, Nevada, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The next step in the repository's development is for the DOE to submit an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to construct the repository.

If the license to construct is granted, the DOE would begin building a repository. The earliest waste could be accepted would be 2010. It would take about 24 years to ship all the waste to the repository. Currently, this material is stored at more than 70 temporary storage facilities in 33 states.

SAIC also runs the "Voice of the New Iraq", the radio station established on 15 April 2003 at Umm Qasr that is funded by the U.S. government.

SAIC was awarded a contract from the GSA Federal Technology Service to deliver telecommunications support services and integrated solutions for federal departments and agencies nationwide. SAIC ordered equipment that was incompatible with existing systems in Iraq. It asked for help from VOA, and was forced to rely on a dubbed network news programs.

SAIC was hired recently to investigate what called Johns Hopkins University called serious security flaws in Diebold's new voting machines. The credibility of that report is flawed from the start by the company's ties to this politically incestuous Bush administration.

SAIC's Steve Rockwood boasts: "SAIC can be the window into the government for small businesses."

The Iraqi Development and Reconstruction Council, was set up to operate as an independent, non-political body to advise an Iraqi transitional authority. IDRC would rely on the existing "backbone" of Iraq's trained civil servants to continue basic services but also act as an agent for progress. http://usembassy.state.gov/islamabad/wwwh03080602.html

"There is a wealth of human resources in Iraq," said Nisreen Sideek, Minister of Reconstruction and Development from the city of Erbil in a State Dept. release.

The council is made up of about 130 Iraqi volunteers who are now assigned to Iraq's ministries in Baghdad and across the region. They offer technical experience in a wide range of fields from agriculture to health affairs

According to Middle East Reference.org., the senior members of IRDC hold positions at each of 23 Iraqi ministries, where they work closely with US and British officials under Paul Bremer, the head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.

Members of the IRDC are officially employed by SAIC, whose vice-president until 2002 was David Kay, the WMD hunter. Kay was coordinator of SAIC's homeland security and the company’s counterterrorism initiatives.

The Center for Public Integrity reported that the contracts all appear to last for one year and call for all of the work to be directed by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith.
Feith's top deputy at the Pentagon is Christopher "Ryan" Henry. Henry was a corporate vice president for strategic assessment and development at SAIC until October 2002.

These are excerpts from my book, Power Of Mischief-Military Industry Executives are Making Bush Policy and the Country is Paying the Price

[FreakinDJ]

4. Glad to see you shakeing the tree - Bigtree

This story needs to be told

[bobthedrummer]

5. Tommy Thompson hired Jerome Hauer from SAIC on 9-10-2001.

David Kay left SAIC for the CIA.

SAIC has at least 7 DoD contracts for broadcast media in Iraq.

When Rumsfeld delivered his "Message to the People of Iraq" a year ago it was broadcast via Commando Solo II aircraft.
http://www.dod.gov/news/Apr2003/n04302003_200304302.html

Commando Solo missions are aerial mind control, they have been used to influence foreign elections and behavior.
http://www.raven1.net/commsolo.htm

Many of these mercenaries, like SAIC, have worked on mind control- still not a popular subject to discuss, but a vital one imho and life experiences.

[bigtree]

6. Most of SAIC's money comes from the defense budget

Computer weapon systems and information technology (spyware)

[bobthedrummer]

7. Yep, our taxes support private political military companies hiding behind

the umbrella of national security. Btw, here's an article from 1998 exploring the IT angle you mentioned, bigtree. It is part of C2W warfare (C2W command and control warfare "is the integrated use of PSYOP, military deception, operations security, electronic warfare and physical destruction.")

The Mind Has No Firewall
http://www.adacomp.net/~mcherney/thomas.html