Reply #173: Diebold & SAIC & a host of Defense Intel Guys [View All]

[ignatzmouse]

Don't know if this has been posted...

"Diebold has been retained by the state of Maryland to provide voting software for the 2004 election, but because of ongoing negative publicity, Diebold hired Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego, to assess the security of the companys voting software...

Many SAIC officers are current or former government and military
officials. Retired Army Gen. Wayne Downing, who until last summer
served as chief counter-terrorism expert on the National Security
Council, is a member of SAICs board. Also on the board is former
CIA Director Bobby Ray Inman, who served as director of the National
Security Agency, deputy director of the CIA and vice director of
the Defense Intelligence Agency. During the first Bush administration
and while on the board of SAIC, Immen was a member of the National
Foreign Intelligence Board, an advisory group that reports to the
president and to the director of Central Intelligence.

Retired Adm. William Owens, a former vice chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff who sits on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfelds
Defense Policy Board, served as SAICs president and CEO and until
recently was its vice chairman. He now is chairman of the board of
VoteHere, which seeks to provide cryptography and computer software
security for the electronic election industry. Robert Gates, ex-CIA
director, former SAIC board member and a veteran of the Iran-Contra
scandal, also is on the board of VoteHere."

Full article from "In These Times" here:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=490_0_1_0_C