Cambone's "accomplishments" as a Rumsfeldian apparatchik specializing in repression and torture.

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Power, Corruption and Spies
Antifascist Calling...

....In gruesome detail, Shorrock lays out the case against Rumsfeld associate, Stephen Cambone, the former undersecretary of defense for intelligence.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14898

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During Cambone's tenure, he oversaw the secretive Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) at the Pentagon, a repressive operation that spied on antiwar activists and has been linked to human rights violations at America's "premier" gulags at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Here's the kicker: less than two months after leaving office, Cambone joined one of a multitude of "security" corporations that have proliferated like poisonous mushrooms after a warm rain in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. According to Shorrock:

A Pentagon office that claims to monitor terrorist threats to U.S. military bases in North America -- and was once reprimanded by the U.S. Congress for spying on antiwar activists -- has just awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a company that employs one of Donald Rumsfeld's former aides, That aide, Stephen Cambone, helped create the very office that issued the contract.

On January 7, QinetiQ (pronounced "kinetic") North America (QNA), a major British-owned defense and intelligence contractor based in McLean, Virginia, announced that its Mission Solutions Group, formerly Analex Corporation, has just signed a five-year, $30 million contract to provide a range of unspecified "security services" to the Pentagon's Counter-Intelligence Field Activity office, known as CIFA.

According to Pentagon briefing documents, CIFA's Directorate of Field Activities "assists in preserving the most critical defense assets, disrupting adversaries and helping control the intelligence domain." Another CIFA directorate, the Counterintelligence and Law Enforcement Center, "identifies and assesses threats" to military personnel, operations and infrastructure from "insider threats, foreign intelligence services, terrorists, and other clandestine and covert entities," according to the Pentagon. A third CIFA directorate, Behavorial Sciences, has provided "a team of renowned forensic psychologists (who) are engaged in risk assessments of the Guantanamo Bay detainees."

The unseemliness of awarding a contract to a Bush-connected crony involved in some of the most nauseating operations of the so-called "war on terror" has largely escaped the media's purview. While spying on antiwar activists, inciting violence at demonstrations by well-paid provocateurs and torturing hapless Iraqi prisoners is "standard operating procedure" for various agents of repression, you would think the cyclonic nature of Cambone's passage through Washington's ubiquitous "revolving door" would attract at least a passing interest from pundits. You would be wrong.


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http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2008/01/power-corruption-and-spies.html