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The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing

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* 7/24/2008 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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* World Affairs Council Auditorium

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* 312 Sutter Street

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San Francisco, California 94108

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Tim Shorrock, Investigative Journalist

Tim Shorrock is an investigative journalist who has devoted a quarter-century of research to the intersection of national security and business, specifically researching intelligence contracting for the past four years. His work has appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, including The Nation, Salon, Mother Jones, Harper’s, Inter Press Service, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Progressive, The Journal of Commerce, Foreign Policy in Focus and Asia Times. He also appears frequently on the radio as a commentator on US-Korean relations and US intelligence and foreign policy, and has been interviewed on Pacifica’s “Democracy Now,” Air America and CBS Radio. Tim Shorrock grew up in Japan and South Korea.

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Outsourcing has become par for the course in business and increasingly in government intelligence gathering as well. In recent years, intelligence contracting has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry, with privatization often blurring the lines between public and private sectors. Examples of private contractors can be found in places like Abu Ghraib, and in American intelligence centers throughout the world. Similarly, former high-ranking national security officials can be found in various consulting roles throughout the private sector intelligence industry. Yet, the size, scope, and influence of this intelligence outsourcing has been largely unexamined, and sometimes at odds with congressional oversight and public accountability. Join the Council for a conversation with investigative journalist Tim Shorrock as he discusses this topic in depth in his new book, Spies for Hire.

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BBN the firm behind http://www.everyzing.com/ does machine audio to text conversion of podcasts- guess who financed that? NSA - what irony that they would using that technology on a Greenwald podcast.

Play around with it - it lts you search for text in the audio and provides excerpts - doesn't provide full transcription dump in one piece (I believe).

http://www.everyzing.com/

In case this hasn't been mentioned, I wonder if all the Beltway class popping Cipro created more resistant bacteria which ultimately affects us all?

About his 2004 book What's the Matter of Kansas? and why people vote Republican against their best economic interests - talks about how the subject of class in America is being discussed as cultural issues (like abortion) rather than what is economically best for them.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08012008/profile3.html

So the Republicans want to make this about culture rather than economics.

http://suskindresponse.googlepages.com/

He explains and sticks with original denial statement