Blackwater branches out.
By on Nov 5th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Blackwater branches out.
In February, Erik Prince — the founder of Blackwater — launched Total Intelligence Solutions, a company that will offer intelligence services such as risk analysis to companies and governments. “The company won’t reveal its financial information, the names of its customers or other details of its business.” Its chairman is former CIA counterterrorism head Cofer Black, who is known “for his leading role in many of the agency’s more controversial programs, including the rendition and interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects and the detention of some of them in secret prisons overseas.”
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congress better defund these anti-constitutional mercenaries — yesterday.
they pose a grave threat to the future of the united states.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:42 amTotal Intelligence Solutions
An oxymoron waiting to happen
November 5th, 2007 at 10:45 amGood write-up of this development on truthout.org.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:47 am70% of our intelligence activities are outsourced to private companies. IMHO, this is just a ticking time bomb waiting to blow up on us with disastrous consequences.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:47 amYipes. Guns for hire is bad enough, but spies for hire? Corporations will turn these people loose on the American public and no one in Washington will be safe from blackmail and smears. More so than now, even. My stomach hurts.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:50 amwell, now we know what really happened to TIA…
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Total+Intelligence+Awareness&btnG=Search
those image makeover guys are really putting out the product…
not?
.
(i’m joking, mostly… maybe… just the first thing i though of: TIA…)
November 5th, 2007 at 10:51 amgone for the day… see yas…
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Will the Bushies now be giving them access to classified data? Seems to me, you couldn’t offer a government “Total Intelligence Solutions” without it.
So, how will Bush rationalize giving hard intel to a private company? It’s already a forgone conclusion that he will, since these guys (Coffer Black for example) already have insider info telling them that this would be a good business opportunity for them.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:51 amIt sounds like Blackwater is using its connections with the State Department and the CIA and the intelligence it has gained from these connections for profit-making ventures.
I believe in any similar case, this would be called treason. Why is it not called that in this case?
November 5th, 2007 at 10:54 amThe Cycle of Nations!
At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in
the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The
University of Edinborough) had this to say about “The Fall of The Athenian
Republic” some 2,000 years prior.
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a
permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until
the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts
from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for
the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with
the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal
policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of
history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations
always progressed through the following sequence:
>From Bondage to spiritual faith;
>From spiritual faith to great courage;
>From courage to liberty;
>From liberty to abundance;
>From abundance to complacency;
>From complacency to apathy;
>From apathy to dependence;
>From dependence back into bondage.”
Olson believes the U.S. is now somewhere between the “apathy” and
November 5th, 2007 at 10:54 am“complacency” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy; with some
40 percent of the nation’s population already having reached the
“governmental dependency” phase.
These government contracting corporations have quickly learned that there are BILLIONS of dollars in easy money to be had under this administration, but suddenly, they recognize that the gravy train is leaving the station in a little over a year, so they’re stocking up.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:55 amFor some time now our country has been under attack by the reich..We have been at red alert level for year’s and it is just now becoming public..Yep! Red alert folk’s…..Blessings
November 5th, 2007 at 10:55 amGood point Barfly (#7).
“Intelligence solutions” would HAVE to require giving a PRIVATE corporation, whose services are… it’s safe to assume… open to the highest bidder, access to CLASSIFIED material.
And if we require that their ONLY client be the U.S. government, what’s the benefit of “outsourcing” to a company with no other clients to offset the cost?
November 5th, 2007 at 11:00 amThis sounds like a good way for Prince of Darkness to continue his revenue stream, even if he gets his wrist slapped in Iraq for too much civilian wet work.
Also, anyone buying Amway products better make sure their personal data isn’t being used by Prince’s new company and that there aren’t any microphones or cameras in the Amway dish soap boxes.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:11 amThis gives me nuthin but warm fuzzies alllll over….
November 5th, 2007 at 11:13 amBefore money and tasks are given to such organization like Blackwater,the government and Congress must have rules and laws (local & International) made under which these organizations operate.
Until now,that has not been done. Blackwater, while branching out,and operates in many more countries,trouble for US government like the ones this company caused in Iraq can multiply endangering US policies,prestige,and reputation if company’s actions left unchecked.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:15 am“Blackwater branches out.”
A new branch of the govt?
November 5th, 2007 at 11:16 amWill the Bushies now be giving them access to classified data?
Comment by barfly — November 5, 2007 @ 10:51 am
I truly hate to tell you (unless you needed to hear more bad news this morning) but they already do.
“Mike McConnell, the man President Bush tapped to replace John Negroponte as National Intelligence Director, has been a leading figure in outsourcing U.S. intelligence operations to private industry.”
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/151224
November 5th, 2007 at 11:19 amGoogle B ooz A llen H amilton – without the spaces of course. Caution.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:22 amI’m sure the congress has gotten right on this. A letter is probably in the mail to somebody somewhere.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:31 amComing soon to a neighborhood near you(then yours), your Blackwater spy agency, watching you.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:57 amPretty soon they’ll be able to watch us, detain us and waterboard us – all while being paid with our taxpayer money.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:09 pmPretty soon they’ll be able to watch us, detain us and waterboard us – all while being paid with our taxpayer money.
Comment by mary — November 5, 2007 @ 12:09 pm
Can it get any more efficient than that?
Oh, wait, maybe they can also provide the “Soylent Green” work as well. Then, it will be a complete 1-stop shop for the BushCo Boyz.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:11 pmread my blog Ive got a great interview of the guy that specializes in exposing blackwater crimes.
http://www.oldhacks.blogspot.com
November 5th, 2007 at 2:02 pmoh Free Market, how you do us all so well…
November 5th, 2007 at 2:28 pmBlackwater (and their other mercenary scum ilk) dabble in all sorts of shady things…thier scum, illegal combatants, and criminals who have no legal accountability for thier actions. im going to laugh when keyboard commandos like Kilotwat who idolize these murders have to watch as they are eventually fined, indicted, and exposed. fans of the blackwater murderers support leaders who go to war based on blatant lies but whine and cry like babies demanding ironclad proof and complete accuracy when anyone dares speak ill of thier precious bloodmerchants. as the right-tards like to say, let god sort em out..
November 6th, 2007 at 12:46 amAh yes, the fact Prince has started a new company and hired a head torturer from the CIA to run it makes even more sense in the light of thier selectively worded denial about Blackwater “not being employed to do anything” at Abu-Gharib. Considering all thier “employees” are indepedent contractors, its a simple matter for Prince to start a new company, and just hire people who were already working for him to do the torturing. In that scenario, it would explain why they said “Blackwater wasnt employed to do anything at Abu” instead of the less wishy washy statement “no blackwater personell had anything to do with abu gharib”.
November 6th, 2007 at 1:07 am