Barlett and Steele are Back Exposing SAIC (Corporate Crime Reporter)

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Barlett and Steele are Back
Exposing SAIC

By Corporate Crime Reporter

When investigative reporters Donald Barlett and James Steele were fired from Time magazine in May 2006, the magazine cried poverty.

"They're very good, but very expensive, and I couldn't get anyone to take them on their budget," John Huey, editor in chief at Time said.

Time magazine then turns around and paid $4 million for photographs of Brad Pitt and Angela Jolie's baby.

"That $4 million would pay for about 10 more years of salary and expenses for Barlett and Steele and their research help," said Steve Lovelady of the Columbia Journalism Review at the time.

Luckily, Brangolina central ­ Vanity Fair ­ picked up Barlett and Steele ­ and this month they're back with their expose of SAIC ­ Science Applications International Corporation ­ the mega-giant defense and intelligence contractor that straddles the Potomac.

Buried deep inside Vanity Fair's 500-page Hollywood issue, surrounded by anorexic male and female models pushing bras, perfume, jewelry, and handbags ­ is this ten-page profile of the permanent government on the Potomac

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http://www.counterpunch.org/ccr02202007.html

[saigon68]

1. Bad link

[laststeamtrain]

2. Thanks. I just noticed. I think that fixed it. n/t

[saigon68]

3. Works now

Thanks much. This is a very interesting area

[laststeamtrain]

4. Yeah it is. I posted a link to the article last Friday...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x263396

Nobody much was interested. It seems to be major work to me. Barlett & Steele are great reporters, have been for decades.

[saigon68]

5. This "outfit" is visible under the radar

Their effect on covert operations, amounts to a kind of "private" CIA