Letter to intel oversight committee on OUTSOURCING & PRIVATIZING INTEL

[yurbud]

Permanent Select Committee on intel
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC

July 29, 2007

Congressmen,

I heard on Democracy Now and read in the Nation that researcher AJ Hillhouse has found that half of our intel services and 70% of our intel budget has been outsourced including the Presidents Daily Brief.

This looks like a profound case of corruption that also compromises our national security by putting it in the hands of private corporations who may insert their interests into their analysis even when it conflicts with those of the American people. When the companies who are providing these services are some of the biggest defense contractors in the world, it's not hard to see how they would err on the side of perpetual war. We have already seem the damage that can be done when that happens with elected officials like the Bush administration crafting a foreign policy and war dictated by big oil then exacerbated by an occupation meant to take care of Bechtel, Halliburton, and Blackwater rather than the Iraqis.

I realize you have inherited the product of years of corrupt Republican policy and Democrats were shut out of many critical decisions. However, if you do not move quickly to investigate and correct this before the next election, it will be recognized as bipartisan corruption that endangers our national security not just a legacy of the squalor of the Bush administration.

NOTE: variation of above paragraph for Republicans members of committee:

As Republicans, you own this policy since Democrats were shut out of many critical decisions during the Bush years. However, if you move quickly to investigate and correct this before the next election, you could separate your party from the legacy of squalor, corruption and profiting from death of the Bush administration. Despite your formidable propaganda machine on talk radio and Fox News and a supine mainstream press, your party could easily go the way of the Whigs if you don’t show that you are more than the bitch of corporate America.

MO NOTE: I don't think this will do much good. When I went looking for their fax numbers, one of the repubs was advocating giving Bush wider wiretap powers and another was pushing for requiring Americans to use passports to travel in Western hemisphere. They have chained themselves to Bushes cement shoes

I have attached http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/hillhouse">the Nation article I referred to. The Democracy Now interview can be found at:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/26/1410253

Hillhouse’s blog on intelligence matters can be found at:
http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/

Please take immediate action on this before we get another war based on cooked intelligence.

Sincerely

Office: [phone] | Toll Free: [phone] | Fax: [phone] | Email: [e-mail]

Members:
http://intelligence.house.gov/MemberList.aspx

Remarkably, Darrell Issa is on the intel committee. If you subtract the corruption from that steaming pile of shit, you'd just be left with the unpleasant odor for a couple of days.

[bobthedrummer]

1. Titan units not only torture, they'll totally manage your intelligence needs

for the right price. Whether abroad or in HOMELAND(tm) contact Titan assets like L-3 Communications.

L-3 Communications Niceville, FL. page
http://posts.same.org/emerald/firms/titan.htm

Pratap Chatterjee L-3 in Iraq article from 8-9-2006 Corp Watch
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13993

[yurbud]

2. ok, you just made it worse. so we've got the privatized Gestapo/SS running intel

[bobthedrummer]

3. I'm just a messenger, share the messages. Whatever happened to those Titan

employees involved in the Abu Ghraib tortures?

[yurbud]

4. the other downside of this is I don't expect CIA and regular military to go along with any

false flag crap or military action beyond what they have already done.

This means Bushies can do an end run around them.

Eventually, we will get to a situation like Venezuela where enough of the military gets sick of being the bad guys and the right can't use them as tools any more.