Anyone Else Notice How Booz Allen Has Flown Under the Radar for all of this?

[LaydeeBug]

It's either about Snowden, the hero, Snowden, the villain, Glenn Greenwald, Obama, or the the NSA. We The People paid Booz Allen a LOT of money for some kid to come in and gain that much access that quickly.

We should not be awarding them any more contracts.

[PDJane]

1. No, we shouldn't.

However, since Booz Allen is part of the BFEE, I wouldn't expect that particular retribution will happen.

[winter is coming]

2. IMO, that's why the attacks on Snowden have been so vicious. n/t

[malaise]

3. The bigger issue is how the ReTHUGs privatized national security and gave it to themselves

That is the most frightening part of this mess

[sabrina 1]

15. Exactly, it is the bigger issue. But the answer is that the Bush War Criminals used 9/11 to

push the privatization of security. There are now thousands of them, with over one million individuals who have 'security clearance'.

It's a very, very profitable 'business', this 'terror war'. Clapper is a former CEO of Booz Allen who walked straight from that job to the job of Director of Intelligence in our government. The Conflict of Interest is so glaring that it boggles the mind they have the nerve to keep doing it.

His lie to Congress has had zero impact on his influence over this government. And funding for the 'terror war' to these Private Security Corps will continue.

I would not be surprised if Booz Allen didn't hire a sub-contractor for the job of smearing Snowden, as HB Gary was doing in their bid to BOA, offering a smear campaign against Greenwald because of his writing about BOA corruption.

Where can we begin to dismantle this machine whose main goal is Profit? Maybe it's just too late.

[malaise]

16. Well I know that Machiavelli

was correct about merenaries - they are in it for themselves, they are never loyal to a country and Bushco's goons are economic mercenaries - all they want is profit - by any means necessary

[nenagh]

4. +1000

[Octafish]

5. Important point that shows how America ''is governed'' through media manipulation...

...No reason not to give the news the good ol' college try, though:

Know your BFEE: The Carlyle Group

Proud owners and operators of Booz Allen Hamilton.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. The Bush family's Carlyle Group made $2 billion off of them,

through teaching their Saudi friends how to data mine their people.

[LaydeeBug]

7. It's almost unreal how it's not mentioned. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. So here it is:

The Carlyle Group Has Made $2 Billion Off Of Booz Allen
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2013/06/10/the-carlyle-group-has-made-2-billion-off-of-booz-allen/


Didn't we decry the Bush regime at some point on DU? Evidently not while Obama works to expand it; can't question the president, you know, it's somehow not Democratic.

[LaydeeBug]

9. It's Patriotic when it comes to this...I don't think the Obama Administration REALLY wanted

to say, 'modest encroachment' as part of their meme on civil liberties.

But he did it anyway.

[sabrina 1]

17. Well, most of us ARE questioning all of this, and it doesn't matter who is in power, this

is outrageous. Yes, there are a few on the 'left' who are pushing the same policies Bush pushed, but no matter how many distractions they try to throw around it isn't going to change the facts. Bush's policies are what we opposed and still oppose, no matter how many childish labels are flung around. And obviously someone is very nervous that they have not succeeded in hiding these facts from the people which is why there is so much desperation to try to distract from them.

In a strange way that gives me hope. It shows that they have not yet succeeded in a complete takeover and still need the support of a large segment of the population to keep on doing what they started under Bush.

[Berlum]

12. + 1,000

nt

[Egalitarian Thug]

10. The dirty and unmentionable secret to virtually all of America's giant corporations.

They all became giant through corporate welfare and none of them could survive without those giant, taxpayer funded contracts. Walmart is one of the very few exceptions and we all know about their practices.

[LaydeeBug]

11. "Too big to fail" REALLY SHOULD be "Too big too exist" nt

[Egalitarian Thug]

13. Absolutely. It's why we pay way too much for far to little of damned near everything.

Creating billionaires is very expensive.

[Hydra]

14. They've gotten a free pass

So has most of the for profit spying.

My mind just has trouble with that. We REALLY farmed gov't spying out to private companies??

What could possibly go wrong??

[LaydeeBug]

18. I know, right? And no talk of it. nt