Pentagon hired contractor to advise on collecting information on churches,

[RedEarth]

Pentagon hired contractor to advise on collecting information on churches, mosques, other U.S. sites
By Jonathan S. LandayKnight Ridder NewspapersWASHINGTON -

A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., to help it collect data on houses of worship, schools, power plants and other locations in the United States.

MZM Inc., headed by Mitchell Wade, also received three contracts totaling more than $250,000 to provide unspecified "intelligence services" to the White House, according to documents obtained by Knight Ridder. The White House didn't respond to an inquiry about what those intelligence services entailed.

MZM's Pentagon and White House deals were part of tens of millions of dollars in federal government business that Wade's company attracted beginning in 2002.

MZM and Wade, who pleaded guilty last month to bribing Cunningham and unnamed Defense Department officials to steer work to his firm, are the focus of ongoing probes by Pentagon and Department of Justice investigators.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/14126125.htm

[iconoclastic cat]

1. We are SO FUCKED.

This country is over.

[annabanana]

2. We are being spied on

everywhere by the WH & by DOD.. At work, church, school, online at home and on line at the supermarket. Everything we do and everywhere we go is quantified and documented, should we become "persons of interest" at some time in the future.

And the pace and degree are continually ratcheted up a notch and up a notch. And the pressure must either be let out safely by a congressional sweep and massive cleaning house at the national level, or the whole cooker will surely explode.

[creeksneakers2]

3. I know about the 4 graph rule but these graphs change

the meaning so much I think they ought to be included.



According to a "statement of work," the data that CIFA was interested in obtaining included "maps, street addresses, lines of communication, critical infrastructure elements, demographic and other pertinent sources that would support geocoding and multi-level analysis."

Geocoding involves assigning latitudes and longitudes to locations, such as street addresses, so they can be displayed as points on maps. Such tools increasingly are being used by U.S. corporations and law enforcement agencies.
MZM was to "assist the government in identifying and procuring data" on maps, as well as "airports, ports, dams, churches/mosques/synagogues, schools (and) power plants," said the statement of work.

(snip)

"GIS software ... is designed to allow integration of geographic and imagery data with threat information to provide complex analytic products," he said. "Not knowing the location of key infrastructure and points of interest, such as bridges, chemical plants, schools, parks, and even religious facilities, as they relate to threat information, could significantly affect the accuracy of such analysis and plans and lead to disastrous results."