Abramoff's NSA and Domestic Spying Scandal

[leveymg]

The National Security Scandals of Jack Abramoff - Part II

While Jack Abramoff's scandalous rip-off of Indian tribes is well know, his role as a GOP fixer for NSA and CIA contractors has gone virtually under the radar screen. Abramoff lobbying activities raise serious questions about the role of his corporate and foreign clients in compromising highly sensitive NSA and Capitol Hill communications networks, domestic spying and other illegal activities.

We now learn that Abramoff is at the center of a much wider web of criminal activity involving private-sector NSA contractors and GOP lawmakers. Abramoff served as a conduit between the NSA and private companies that have become the focus of multiple criminal prosecutions and national security investigations, including the abuse of prisoners abroad, and alledged spying on Capitol Hill lawmakers by Abramoff clients.

Yesterday, we reported that Verizon (dba Qwest Wireless), is the focus of an NSA contracting scandal and a little-noticed trial of executives for cooking company books. Attorneys for Qwest's CEO, Joseph Nacchio, raised knowledge of classified government contracts anticipated by Qwest in 2001 as "one of the key elements to his defense." http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=225637&mesg_id=225637; also, see, http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=uri:2006-01-24T013601Z_01_N23351105_RTRIDST_0_TECH-QWEST-NACCHIO-UPDATE-1.XML

That trial reveals something far more important about the corruption scandal that is gripping top GOP lawmakers. Abramoff and his associates manueuvered his clients -- including now bankrupt Enron, Global Crossing and Tyco International -- into federal contracts that gave them leverage over strategic U.S. markets, a role in framing foreign policy options, or unprecedented private-sector access to operating classified government data networks. This has resulted in the gravest constitutional crisis since Watergate, as well as a massive damage to U.S. national security.

The 2001 Contract to Privatize NSA's Surveillance Systems


In 2001 Verizon, along with a second Abramoff client, CACI, was awarded part of a multi-billion dollar NSA contract to privatize the NSA's information technology systems, capabilities that were then used by the Bush Administration to carry out illegal domestic spying. As part of that ten-year program, code-named Project Groundbreaker, NSA surveillance systems continue to be developed, operated and maintained by private sector IT companies. See, http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/08/0017.html

Washington Post
August 1, 2001
Pg. E1

By Vernon Loeb and Greg Schneider, Washington Post Staff Writers

The National Security Agency yesterday awarded a 10-year contract
worth more than $2 billion to Computer Sciences Corp. and more than a
dozen partners in what NSA officials called the largest effort by a
U.S. intelligence agency to entrust its information technology systems
to a private contractor.

With the Bush administration engaged in a comprehensive review of the
nation's intelligence capabilities, the award represents a clear
acknowledgment by NSA officials that the agency has fallen behind the
technological curve and now needs the private sector to modernize its
Cold War infrastructure. The contract, dubbed Project Groundbreaker,
also represents a major departure for the NSA, which has long prided
itself on developing much of its own computer and signals intelligence
technology.

SNIP

Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the NSA's director, said the
contract "allows us to refocus assets on the agency's core mission of
providing foreign signals intelligence and protecting U.S. national
security-related information systems." One intelligence community official
called the contract "unprecedented in terms of the scale of the effort,
taking advantage of the private sector's ability to make technical inroads
and modernize rapidly. It could very well be replicated by other intelligence
agencies, if the effort is successful."

While many of the requirements included in the contract involve
non-classified computing and telecommunications services, Computer
Sciences and its partners also will be responsible for designing and
maintaining classified systems used for the management of electronic
signals and digital data intercepted around the globe. California-based
CSC formed a partnership on the contract with Logicon, a Herndon-based unit
of Northrop Grumman Corp. The joint venture is known as the Eagle Alliance,
and will be led by Robinson. The team was selected over groups led by AT&T
Corp. and OAO TechnologySolutions Inc. Agency officials said the contract,
which will become "fully operational" by Nov. 1, includes financial incentives
to support the hiring of 750 NSA employees by the contractors at "comparable or
better pay, benefits and opportunities."

SNIP

It also undertook a similar outsourcing program for the Army in the
past few years, a $680 million job called the Wholesale Logistics
Modernization Program. Under that program, about 200 Army employees
became CSC employees, the company said.

SNIP

CSC's other partners include General Dynamics Corp., Keane Federal
Systems Inc., Omen Inc., ACS Defense Inc., BTG Inc., CACI
International Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., TRW Inc., Windemere, Fiber
Plus, Verizon and Superior Communications.


CACI: CIA contractor abuse

CACI is part of the Groundbreaker contract. A CACI contractor working for the CIA was implicated in thbe torture and homicide of a detainee in Afghanistan. Sourcewatch reports that Abramoff's former law firm, Greenberg Traurig, working with a CACI lobbyist on a junket to Israel to introduce Capitol Hill to prisoner interrogation techniques. See, http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greenberg_Traurig

4. "Miami-headquartered firm (Greenberg Traurig) partially funded/sponsored delegation to Israel by House-Senate Armed Services Committee members and government contractors to witness and be briefed on interrogation resistance procedures and torture techniques ... One of lobbyists joining them to Israel included Jack London, CEO, CACI International, the American defense contractor implicated by Major General Antonio M. Taguba in outsourced Iraqi torture at Abu Ghraib prison." See Taguba Report.
Ali Abunimah, "Israeli link possible in US torture techniques. In exchange for interrogation training, did Washington award security contracts?" (http://www.dailystar.com.lb /...) The Daily Star (Lebanon), May 11, 2004. Also posted May 18, 2004 by San Francisco Indymedia (http://sf.indymedia.org /...).

Scandal over Abramoff foreign wireless company client brings down Rep. Bob Nye

Yet another major GOP scandal concerns a different Abramoff client, MobileAcess Networks(dba FoxCom Wireless) an Israeli wireless company, which was awarded the contract to install a local area wireless network in the House and Senate office buildings. This has led to the downfall of House Operations Committee Chair Bob Nye (R.,OH), who received lavish gifts from Abramoff and his clients in the deal.

The contract was awarded after the Israeli wireless company made a $50,000 gift to Abramoff's favorite "charity", the Capital Athletic Foundation, that also received a million dollar donation from a Russian tycoon seeking favors in Washington. Abramoff's firm received $240,000 for its services.

In relation to the other Abramoff clients involved with the NSA, perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this transaction is that the House wireless contract was awarded to the Israeli company despite security concerns that the network was vulnerable to monitoring. Nevertheless, the contract was pushed through by Nye after the NSA cleared the plan.

http://www.hillnews.com/...

(I)n 2002, the license to build a (wireless phone) network inside the House office buildings went to MobileAccess Networks, an upstart Israeli company formerly named Foxcom Wireless. In 2004, MobileAccess trumped LGC (a rival US bidder) again, winning a $3.9 million dollar contract to build a similar network in the Senate.

"We felt that there were irregularities in the vendor selection process and formally protested the process, but to no avail," Ian Sugarboard, LGC's CEO, said in an e-mail. "In addition, it appeared that lobbyists had exerted undue influence on the deal."

The process by which MobileAccess beat LGC has resurfaced because of the scandals surrounding GOP megalobbyist Jack Abramoff.

SNIP

The FBI and National Security Agency reviewed the security of LGC's technology to make sure foreign intelligence services could not penetrate the network, according to documents reviewed by The Hill.
In December 2000, Thomas's staff, the Architect of the Capitol's Office and the House Information Resource Office appeared set to award LGC a license. But the paperwork sat on the chairman's desk, unsigned.

In a brief interview with The Hill this week, Thomas said that as House Administration Committee chairman he made the procurement process "more professional" and kept politics at "arms length" but that he could not recall details of the wireless decision. A former staffer involved in the process recalled that "Thomas never reached a final decision on LGC. Frankly, one of my guys was a little out in front of the decision in how he conveyed things third-hand."

The source added, "Bob Bean, who was Hoyer's staff director at the time, weighed in on behalf of making sure that Foxcom got equitable consideration. Bean came to me to personally suggest steps like weighing the preferences of the telecom companies." Bean died last year. Meantime, Foxcom offered a cut-rate price of $750,000 to each carrier. LGC's initial price to the carriers was $1.15 million, which it cut to $850,000. The license was worth up to $4 million.

Expect updates as this story develops.

COPYRIGHT 2006, Mark G. Levey

[seemslikeadream]

1. Thanks leveymg

:hi:

[EFerrari]

2. Good work. I noticed Kennedy mentiion "phone companies"

in passing when he addressed the NSA spying scandal in the last couple of days -- likely yesterday. He intimated that they would also have to be held to account.

[leveymg]

3. I heard that too. About time.

Thanks.

[EFerrari]

4. I wonder if Kennedy's people might not have something for you. n/t

[phoebe]

5. BTW - NSA's Director denied knowledge of pre-9/11 info. despite intercepts

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a101702nsadenial

snip

October 17, 2002: NSA Denies Having Indications of 9/11 Planning


NSA Director Michael Hayden testifies before the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry that the “NSA had no that al-Qaeda was specifically targeting New York and Washington ... or even that it was planning an attack on US soil.” Before 9/11, the “NSA had no knowledge ... that any of the attackers were in the United States.” Supposedly, a post-9/11 NSA review found no intercepts of calls involving any of the 19 hijackers. Yet, in the summer of 2001 (see Summer 2001), the NSA intercepted communications between Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and hijacker Mohamed Atta, when he was in charge of operations in the US. What was said between the two has not been revealed. The NSA also intercepted multiple phone calls from Abu Zubaida, bin Laden's chief of operations, to the US in the days before 9/11 (see Early September 2001). But who was called or what was said has not been revealed.

People and organizations involved: al-Qaeda, 9/11 Congressional Inquiry, Michael Hayden, National Security Agency

and more from that site..

October 17, 2002: None Punished at Agencies for 9/11 Failures


The directors of the US's three most famous intelligence agencies, the CIA, FBI and NSA, testify before a Congressional inquiry on 9/11. <9/11 Congressional Inquiry, 10/17/02 (B); 9/11 Congressional Inquiry, 10/17/02> All three say no individual at their agencies has been punished or fired for any of missteps connected to 9/11. This does not satisfy several on the inquiry, including Senator Carl Levin (D), who says “People have to be held accountable.”


well, well, well...

[phoebe]

11. posted this again in GD because it's important in it's own right..

Bush using NSA to spy on Americans and yet Gen. Hayden denied that he knew 9/11 attacks about to occur despite NSA having intercepted calls from the terrorists.

Who is fooling who??

[FreedomAngel82]

30. And also don't forget

that they were spying before 9/11.

[leveymg]

12. Hayden isn't the only one who lied to the 9/11 Commission

See, http://www.selvesandothers.org/article9893.html

[phoebe]

6. Israel + phone contract = spy scandal

Abramoff = phone contracts to Israel + Larry Franklin (friendly with Rove)= spy scandal

mmmm..interesting

[kentuck]

7. Aren't those a few of the same contractors that the Dukester worked with?

Interesting...

K&R

[leveymg]

13. Actually, Duke was part of a rival faction

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:KgFdzE58KKAJ:washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2005/11/28/daily27.html

Broadcast showcases CACI's prospects, stock market tunes in
Ben Hammer
Staff Reporter

CACI International shares received a "booyah" bounce Nov. 30, a day after stock market guru Jim Cramer featured the company on the CNBC show "Mad Money."

Cramer, who excitedly greets callers with his trademark "booyah," said Arlington-based CACI would benefit from allegations that competing defense contractor MZM made payments to U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham for help in securing federal business.

Cunningham pleaded guilty Nov. 28 to conspiracy and tax charges, admitted he took $2.4 million in bribes and resigned from Congress.

CACI's stock rose as high as $55.99 per share Nov. 30, which was 4 percent higher than the Nov. 29 closing price of $53.66.

[Roland99]

8. Be sure to put this in the Research Forum, too!

[DeepModem Mom]

9. K&R!

[donkeyotay]

10. Thanks. This aspect is reinforced by the Cunningham scandal

That trial reveals something far more important about the corruption scandal that is gripping top GOP lawmakers. Abramoff and his associates manueuvered his clients -- including now bankrupt Enron, Global Crossing and Tyco International -- into federal contracts that gave them leverage over strategic U.S. markets, a role in framing foreign policy options, or unprecedented private-sector access to operating classified government data networks. This has resulted in the gravest constitutional crisis since Watergate, as well as a massive damage to U.S. national security.

National Security has become a big curtain, and hiding behind it are profiteers who are round tripping: legislators, contracts, favors and donations. Round and round it goes, when the Republicans are through selling America out, nobody knows.

[kentuck]

14. Kicked

:kick:

[phoebe]

15. could probably add Army Secretary Thomas White into the mix too

n/t

[phoebe]

16. Logicon + Oracle software +CA + Koch Financial = GW's sister

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/04/MN242493.DTL

snip

Investigators are looking into whether Logicon, a division of Northrop Grumman and an Oracle reseller in California, violated conflict-of-interest laws by consulting with the state on technology issues while working with Oracle on the software contract.

"I think it's more likely that Logicon has a problem more than anyone else, " Lockyer told reporters, "because they were serving two masters. They were working for the state and at the same time secretly working for Oracle, without knowledge of state officials of the circumstances, as far as I can tell."

snip

The state eventually rejected Logicon, believing that a contract with the firm would violate single-source contracting laws because there were other resellers of database software, according to recent testimony before the Legislature. The state then started negotiating exclusively with Oracle.

According to the state auditor, Logicon worked a side deal with Oracle that would pay Logicon $28.5 million for helping Oracle finance the deal through a company called Koch Financial.



Small world.. Koch Financial, a fully-owned subsidiary of Koch Indutries is run by Robert Koch who just happens to be married to Dorothy Bush, GW's sister..

snip

http://www.kochind.com/articles/374.asp

Koch Financial Corporation is one of the many companies of Koch Industries, Inc. that operate worldwide. Koch Industries and its subsidiary companies employ 11,000 people worldwide and are involved in nearly all phases of the oil and gas industry, as well as in chemicals, plastics, chemical and environmental technology products, asphalt products, mineral services, ranching, pipeline operations, financial services, and ventures. Koch Industries maintains long-term credit ratings of AA+ from Standard & Poor's Rating Group and Aa1 from Moody's Investors Service. More information is available at www.kochfinancial.com or www.kochind.com.

[phoebe]

17. Logicon + Carlyle Group

www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0900/090700j1.htm
September 7, 2000

snip

Northrop Grumman Corp. announced plans Wednesday to purchase Federal Data Corp., a Bethesda, Md., systems integrator and computer reseller with a long list of civilian agency clients.

Federal Data will become part of Logicon Inc. of Herndon, Va., a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman. Logicon is an information technology services provider with a strong Defense Department presence.


"They fit just like a glove for us," said Herbert Anderson, Logicon's president and CEO. "This gives us an entree into the National Institutes of Health, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs. It will also enhance what we do with NASA."

snip

Acquisition is not new for Federal Data. The Carlyle Group, a private investment firm based in Washington, bought the company in November 1995 intending to invest in it and then sell it for a profit.

It's impossible to look at any part of the Bush administration/Bush family without seeing profiteering, corruption..

[leveymg]

22. Wonder what the sales price was versus the value of shares outstanding?

If there's a big discrepency, or well-founded complaints from other investors about the sale, then this could present evidence of some sort of payoff to the Bushes and Carlyle grandees.

[FreedomAngel82]

32. Just like I've always said

wherever there is a scandal there is a Bush.

[phoebe]

34. complete history of Logicon

http://www.it.northropgrumman.com/who/history.html

snip

Branching out in the 1970s
During the early 1970s, the company engaged in some activities aimed at diversifying its customer base. Under a contract with the US Postal Service, Logicon produced the process control systems - including computers, electronics and software - that would automate mail handling at 21 bulk mail centers throughout the United States. Another unit of Logicon was engaged in producing a line of pre-press automation systems for the printing industry.

anthrax??

whole lot more stuff here on Logicon - sift through it - it's not pretty
http://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/print.php?storyid=436.

as well as air traffic control and election systems - do your own research

[FreedomAngel82]

31. Oh wow!

[phoebe]

18. Computer Science Corp's CEO sits on Board of Tenet Health (Frist)

Van B. Honeycutt was elected CEO of CSC in 1996

http://www.csc.com/governance/gbod.shtml

Van B. Honeycutt Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Honeycutt is also a director of Beckman Coulter, Inc. and Tenet Healthcare Corporation. He has been a director of CSC since 1993.


There was an effort to kick him out of Tenet in 2003 but the above link is at the CSC's website.

Other Board members of CSC in case anyone else feels like doing some digging..

Irving W. Bailey, II Managing Director of Chrysalis Ventures, LLC and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Providian Corporation.
Mr. Bailey is also a director of AEGON N.V. and Hospira, Inc. He has been a director of CSC since 1992.

David J. Barram Former Administrator, U.S. General Services Administration, and former Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Mr. Barram is also a director of Pope & Talbot, Inc. and NetIQ Corporation. He has been a director of CSC since November 8, 2004.
Stephen L. Baum Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sempra Energy. Mr. Baum has been a director of CSC since 1999.

Rodney F. Chase Deputy Chairman, Tesco p.l.c. and former Deputy Group Chief Executive and Managing Director of BP p.l.c.
Mr. Chase is also a senior advisor to Lehman Brothers and a director of Diageo p.l.c. He has been a director of CSC since 2001.


Leon J. Level Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
Mr. Level is also a director of UTi Worldwide Inc. He has been a director of CSC since 1989.

F. Warren McFarlan
Senior Associate Dean, Director, Asia-Pacific Initiative and Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. Mr. McFarlan is also a director of Providian Financial Corporation and Li & Fung Limited. He has been a director of CSC since 1989.

Thomas H. Patrick Former Executive Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Mr. Patrick is also a director of Deere & Company and Baldwin & Lyons, Inc. He has been a director of CSC since February 10, 2004.

[phoebe]

20. Irving W. Bailey = Bush Pioneer and Providian (credit card scams)

http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/ContributorsAndPaybacks/pioneer_profile.cfm?pioneer_ID=1146

snip

The Center for Responsive Politics ranked the Baileys No. 92 in federal contributions in 2002, based on the $285,280 that they gave federal candidates and committees in that election cycle.

[rumpel]

19. Wow. Thanks

Yesterday, I posted on "groundbreaker", could not get further on my research yet.

The circle is complete isn't it.

[leveymg]

21. Feel free to repost in this thread

Thanks!

[rumpel]

23. Here it is:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x231029

from my post:
The news of outsourcing by the NSA was already on the internet in April of 1999, even though ultimately a year later the amount was 5.1 Billion, the plan to restructure an live on the network was already underway:
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/14_1/cover/449...

The massive mergers and acquisitions of these companies make it quite difficult to spot and track doen't it. GTE is now Verizon, too.

and here is the obituary of Bob Bean. Only 43 years at the time of death.

Obituaries April 2004

Former Hoyer Aide Dead of Heart Attack on Charter Boat
CHESAPEAKE BEACH --- St. Mary's County native Bob Bean died suddenly of a heart attack just after leaving shore for a day of fishing on the Chesapeake Bay. Bean, a former staffer for Congressman Steny Hoyer (D. Md. 5th) had been a deputy Sergeant of Arms for the United States Senate and had recently begun work as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill. Bean was 43 years old. Bean had been a charter boat captain for some years and was stricken shortly after telling members of his fishing party that he felt indigestion. Bean and his brother captained the "Margaret B", a six pack gasoline powered 46' boat docked at the Rod n Reel. The family had experience in charter fishing dating back to the 1930's when the Bean family ran a charter operation at Point Lookout.
Statement on passing of Bob Bean by Congressman Steny Hoyer
http://www.stmarystoday.com/obituaries_april_2004.htm

[phoebe]

24. lot of great stuff in that post - thanks!

n/t

[rumpel]

25. welcome

:)

[phoebe]

26. could you post that again in GD to tie it to this discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x236591
for those folks who haven't seen this thread. Would really appreciate it.

This NSA story is a lot bigger than most people think it is..

[phoebe]

27. oops

self delete

[RazzleDazzle]

28. Important. Thanks. K&R

[FreedomAngel82]

29. No wonder this is going to rock DC

Wow. Oh and now I'm glad my family decided to stay with Cingular and not go with Verizon (Cingular said no to the spying deal).

[phoebe]

33. Apparently Jack is fronting for the "Reform Party of Syria" too - ??

http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2006/01/abramoff-supported-farid-ghadry-as.htm

January 11, 2006

Farid Ghadry and his Reform Party of Syria, it turns out, are connected at the hip to Jack Abramoff, the super Israel Settler supporter who raised over $100,000 to buy sharpshooter equipment and night-vision goggles for militant settlers in the West Bank to shoot Palestinians. (Thanks to Michelle Zimney, who sent this to me.)
One investigator, eager to obtain information about the neocon-sponsored "Reform Party of Syria," led by Farid Ghadry, the Syrian version of Ahmed Chalabi, stumbled on the Abramoff connection:

"When repeated calls to organization went unanswered, I visited the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the RFP. Reform Party of Syria is the office of 'super-Zionist' lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Middle Gate Ventures, Abramoff's political advisory company' partners with RFP."

The Reform Party of Syria is a front organization for Israeli interests in the Levant, and is supported by an impressive constellation of neoconservative stars. Regime change, effected by a U.S. invasion and occupation of Syria and Lebanon, is the one and only item at the top of this gang's agenda, and it comes as no surprise that Abramoff's ill-gotten gains went to funding it.


Ghadry denies the whole thing and threatens to "sue the publisher of these lies" (not me)

http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/syriablog/2006/01/ghadri-denies-abramoff-connection.htm

SyriaComment.com Blog has some interesting follow-up on the entire situation.

[leveymg]

35. Note the contractor list for Total Info Awareness

This interesting post about Poindexter's TIA was posted yesterday: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=240605&mesg_id=240806

Here's an extract from the linked NYT article:

Many of these same companies now also run NSA's domestic surveillance operations after Operation Groundbreaker privatized the Agency. There is now no one watching the watchers.


The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which oversees the Total Information Awareness System (TIA), awarded 13 contracts to Booz Allen & Hamilton amounting to more than $23 million. Lockheed Martin Corporation had 23 contracts worth $27 million; the Schafer Corporation had 9 contracts totaling $15 million. Other prominent contractors involved in the TIA program include SRS Technologies, Adroit Systems, CACI Dynamic Systems, Syntek Technologies, and ASI Systems International.

TIA itself was first proposed by an employee of a private contractor. John Poindexter, who worked on DARPA projects for Syntek, an Arlington, Va.-based technical and engineering services firm, suggested the program in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Poindexter, who headed the National Security Council during the Reagan administration, was convicted in 1990 on five felony counts for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. The convictions were overturned in 1991 because he had been given immunity for his testimony during the congressional investigation of the affair. On Jan. 14, 2002, he returned to the government as the director of the Information Awareness Office.

TIA draws heavily on the private sector. Five of the eight contractors identified by the Center are involved in evaluating future contracts for the program. Grey E. Burkhart, an associate of Booz Allen Hamilton, identifies himself on his resume as “assistant project manager” of TIA system implementation. Even the phrase “Total Information Awareness” has a private pedigree—Visual Analytics, Inc., a Poolesville, Md.-based software developer and DARPA contractor, has applied for a trademark for the phrase.

Note the overlap (CACI).