George W. Bush to Lecture Intelligence Professionals. Really?
And he won't say if he's being paid for this.
—By David Corn |
Why would hundreds of the leading minds in the fields of national security, intelligence, and information technology want to be lectured to by former President George W. Bush, who, after all, misused intelligence to launch a war with little preparation for what would come afterward? And why would the US division of one of the world's largest software companies arrange—and perhaps pay—for Bush to address such an audience?
These are questions that this firm, SAP National Security Services, doesn't want to answer.
Next month, SAP National Security Services—a subsidiary of SAP, the German-based software behemoth—will hold its fourth annual Solutions Summit, where Bush will be a keynote speaker and will take part in a Q&A with Frances Townsend, his onetime homeland security adviser. The event is titled, "Human Critical: Empowering People to Drive US Security." The one-day session—which is cosponsored by Intel, Amazon, CACI, Deloitte, Hewlett-Packard, and other tech and security companies—will, according to its website, highlight several topics, including "closing the human vulnerability gap around cyber," "empowering the analyst to exploit and integrate multi-source intelligence at the speed of the mission," and "extending insight from the analyst workstation to the tactical edge via the cloud."
Now what does Bush—whose White House nurtured a deep distrust of professional analysts within the intelligence community and at times discounted or dismissed their work—have to do with any of that?
Though the summit is open to the press, the Bush-Townsend chat will not be, according to Kristen Sanchez, director of marketing at SAP National Security Services, which also goes by the name SAP NS2. (According to its website, SAP NS2 offers "a full suite of world-class enterprise applications, analytics, database, cyber security, cloud, and mobile software solutions...with specialized levels of security and support to meet the unique mission requirements of US national security and critical infrastructure customers."
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