Massive military contractor's media mess

[MaverickX]

Less well known is San Diego-based Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC), one of the Pentagon's largest, most lucrative and politically connected contractors. Of the six billion dollars it earned in revenue last year, about two thirds came from the US Treasury, mostly from the defense budget.

SAIC is among the most mysterious and feared of the big 10 defense giants - feared because of its ruthlessness in procuring contracts, says the Washington Post; mysterious, in part because, as an employee-owned company, it does not have to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and because its press officers are notorious for not providing information. Indeed, for this article, SAIC press officers referred all questions to the Pentagon's general press office.

SAIC, which specializes in advanced technologies that can be applied to the battlefield, particularly in command and control systems, is now deeply involved in the Pentagon's most important operations in Iraq.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EH16Ak02.html

[sistersofmercy]

1. Thanks for info...it keeps getting scarier. Do doubt someone...

connected to Bush co. is on the payroll or formerly on payroll or getting "deferred compensation"

[teryang]

2. These convoluted corporate and bureaucratic

...relations between defense contractors, little known government agencies, and quisling toadies remind me of the Vietnam imbroglio.

None, of these efforts to dominate the ancient centre of the Islamic world are going to succeed. All of the programs are as misguided, ineffective and counterproductive as the propaganda/media failure in Iraq.

[Trajan]

3. An interesting section ....

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Another member of SAIC's board is retired Army General Wayne Downing, who until last summer served as the chief counter-terrorism expert on the National Security Council (NSC) staff.

Before that, Downing also served as a lobbyist for the Iraqi National Congress (INC) led by Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial Iraqi expatriate long championed by the neo-conservatives in the administration and the DPB. Like Shultz, Downing was also on the board of the CLI, which, not coincidentally, worked closely with the INC.

Another prominent SAIC executive and former vice president also has a long-standing connection with Iraq: David Kay, the former UN weapons inspector who was hired by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in June to head the effort to track down Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

A former senior science official in the Reagan administration, Kay argued forcefully last fall against relying on UN weapons inspections to "contain" Iraq and for removing Saddam Hussein from power.

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Chalabi and David Kay .... BOTH are STOOGES for this PNAC juggernaut ....

They are THICK AS THIEVES with the greedy parasites in the DLB .....

Figures .....

[Karenina]

4. Aren't these the yahoos

checking Maryland's Diebold voting machines?