Reply #5: Ties to "unspecified intelligence contracts" for the WH, ties to Iraq [View All]

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pre_War intel? ties to the Silberman-Robb Whitwash Commision? ties to Iran front group? ties to helping Pentagon/CIFA spy on anti-war protesters?......

(Rolling Stone - ROBERT DREYFUSS Apr 18, 2006 )

The Pentagon's New Spies

The military has built a vast domestic-intelligence network to fight terrorism -- but it's using it to track students, grandmothers and others protesting the war

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The agency got another boost last year when a commission appointed by Bush urged that CIFA be empowered to collect and analyze intelligence "both inside and outside the United States." Three of the commission's consultants, it turns out, were employees of MZM -- one of CIFA's primary contractors -- and federal prosecutors are now looking into whether Pentagon personnel have committed crimes in steering CIFA contracts to MZM. Nevertheless, the president agreed last October to significantly broaden the agency's mission, giving it the authority to actually direct military intelligence operations. From a small unit designed as a clearinghouse for reports, CIFA was transformed overnight into a major arm of domestic intelligence. Both its budget and its staff, thought to be in excess of 1,000 people, are classified.

more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9962459/the_pentagons_new_spies?source=politics_rssfeed

ties to Hayden at NSA......

Two Degrees of Separation from the "Duke"

Hayden, while serving as the director of the National Security Agency, "contracted the services" of retired Lt. Gen. James C. King, then a senior vice president of MZM Inc., the "company at the center" of the Randy "Duke" Cunningham bribery scandal, "according to two former employees of the company," Justin Rood reported for TPM Muckraker.
May 8, 2006, (http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000581.php)

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"Before joining MZM in December 2001, King served under Hayden as the NSA's associate deputy director for operations, and as head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency," Rood wrote.

In 2004 and 2005, while working at NSA Headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland, King was "doing special projects for Hayden as an MZM employee," Rood reported. The exact details of these activities are unknown, although Rood learned that one former employee "said he thought was doing 'special projects' for the director," while another "speculated it was 'high-ranking advisory work.'"

more: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_V._Hayden&redirect=no

and now per your latest link, ties to the NGIC/ FIRES computer intel and Santorum's infamous WMD's?....

tiebacks again to the pre-War intel and Hayden at NSA was going to investigate it? Oh it is all too beautiful!! No hard work or exceptional service or sacrifice for The Decider too great!

Intelligence Center, Contractor MZM on Cozy Terms

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 17, 2005; Page A07

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The NGIC, which is facing an inquiry by the director of national intelligence for its prewar mistakes in analyzing Iraq's weapons programs, has been drawn into the federal investigations of MZM, according to Army and Justice Department spokesmen.

The NGIC was criticized in March by the Silberman-Robb presidential commission for "gross failure" in its analysis of Iraqi arms. The commission said the center was "completely wrong" when it found in September 2002 that the aluminum tubes Iraq was purchasing were "highly unlikely" to be used for rocket motor cases.

That inaccurate finding bolstered a CIA contention that the tubes were meant for nuclear centrifuges and were evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was reconstituting a nuclear weapons program. Two NGIC analysts who produced the inaccurate finding have received annual performance awards each year since 2002. Officials said the bonuses were for their overall activities.

Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the deputy director of national intelligence, told reporters June 29 that his office would conduct its own inquiry into the Silberman-Robb finding.

more:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/16/AR2005071601018.html