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• Saturday, May 10, 2008 10:58 AM

  @mogolori

  three military contractors in 2005 for foreign propaganda generation (one of which, SAIC, was headed by Gen. Dowling until 7/05)

  A correction - SAIC has a long, colorful and controversial history, but one which does not include having Gen. Downing at the helm. It was headed by its founder until 2003, when the new CEO, Ken Dahlberg was named.

  Also, from Wikipedia:

  The company has had as part of its management and on its Board of Directors many well known public servants, including Melvin Laird, Secretary of Defense in the Nixon administration; William Perry, Secretary of Defense for Bill Clinton; John Deutsch, President Clinton's CIA Director; Admiral Bobby Ray Inman who served in various capacities in the NSA and CIA for the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations; and David Kay who led the search for weapons of mass destruction for the U.N. following the 1991 Gulf War and for the Bush Administration following the 2003 Iraq invasion.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Applications_International_Corporation

  The point you're suggesting, that the 'products' of companies like SAIC, TLG and SyColeman (and let's not leave out BoozAllen and other govt contractors whom we don't think of as 'defense' contractors) would end up being 'repurposed' for illegal domestic use is one that bears watching, IMHO. Consultants float between orgs and projects, and take their templates with them (even though technically the contracts are 'work for hire' and the intellectual property belongs to the client).

  My guess, however, is that this MAP didn't need any of those things, and that there's no money trail to follow. Why raise eyebrows with an illegal domestic-use program and contract when you don't have to?

  —quickstrategy Read quickstrategy's other letters
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