Bank of America hires key gov't spy contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton, to help prepare for Wikileaks

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Bank of America hires Booz Allen Hamilton to help prepare for Wikileaks
Submitted by GeorgieBC
January 3, 2011

In Julian Assange's Nov. 29, 2010 interview with Forbes magazine, he indicated that he had information on a major US bank, to be released early this year. He did not specify the Bank of America, but they have been preparing anyway. The NY Times writes:

Since then, a team of 15 to 20 top Bank of America officials, led by the chief risk officer, Bruce R. Thompson, has been overseeing a broad internal investigation — scouring thousands of documents in the event that they become public, reviewing every case where a computer has gone missing and hunting for any sign that its systems might have been compromised.

In addition to the internal team drawn from departments like finance, technology, legal and communications, the bank has brought in Booz Allen Hamilton, the consulting firm, to help manage the review. ...

Booz Allen Hamilton, who has been brought in "to help manage the review" is one of the largest and most controversial US intelligence contractors.

With revenues of $3.7 billion in 2005, Booz Allen is one of the nation's biggest defense and intelligence contractors. Under McConnell's watch, Booz Allen has been deeply involved in some of the most controversial counterterrorism programs the Bush administration has run, including the infamous Total Information Awareness data-mining scheme. As a key contractor and advisor to the NSA, Booz Allen is almost certainly participating in the agency's warrantless surveillance of the telephone calls and e-mails of American citizens.

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[Robb]

1. As I said in another thread, this isn't quite right.

...there's a bit of understandable confusion going on here, I think.

"Booz Allen Hamilton" works exclusively the public sector. "Booz & Company" consults for the private sector -- and therefore is probably who BofA hired. They have not been the same company for a few years now. I had a neighbor who worked for the latter, and did lots of work for the big-big-big banks here and abroad.

Another poster pointed out Booz Allen was recently bought by the Carlye Group, which is pretty interesting, but tangentially so.

On edit: My sentences need verbs, usually. :D

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