Top Rumsfeld Aide Wins Contracts From Spy Office He Set Up

[sabra]

Source: Corp Watch

A Pentagon office that claims to monitor terrorist threats to U.S. military bases in North America -- and was once reprimanded by the U.S. Congress for spying on antiwar activists -- has just awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a company that employs one of Donald Rumsfeld’s former aides. That aide, Stephen Cambone, helped create the very office that issued the contract.

On January 7, QinetiQ (pronounced “kinetic”) North America (QNA), a major British-owned defense and intelligence contractor based in McLean, Virginia, announced that its Mission Solutions Group, formerly Analex Corporation, had just signed a five-year, $30 million contract to provide a range of unspecified “security services” to the Pentagon’s Counter-Intelligence Field Activity office, known as CIFA.

According to Pentagon briefing documents, CIFA’s Directorate of Field Activities "assists in preserving the most critical defense assets, disrupting adversaries and helping control the intelligence domain.” Another CIFA directorate, the Counterintelligence and Law Enforcement Center, "identifies and assesses threats" to military personnel, operations and infrastructure from "insider threats, foreign intelligence services, terrorists, and other clandestine or covert entities," according to the Pentagon. A third CIFA directorate, Behavioral Sciences, has provided a "team of renowned forensic psychologists are engaged in risk assessments of the Guantanamo Bay detainees."

The new CIFA contract with QinetiQ expands work that Analex has provided CIFA and its various directorates since 2003. Under its first contract, according to the QinetiQ website, Analex staffers were sifting through information “from traditional to non-traditional providers, ranging from unclassified through top secret classification using sophisticated information technologies and systems specifically designed by CIFA analysts.”

Read more: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14898

[Kittycat]

1. How are we going to deal with all these contracts?

when a new president comes in?

[formercia]

3. Audits

to make sure they are not violating any laws and if they are providing any useful intelligence or if they are just another rat hole the boys use to siphon money out of the taxpayers' pockets.

[Virginia Dare]

7. Then a bunch of people will go to jail hopefully..

the Pentagon contract system is rotten to it's very core.

[xchrom]

2. quelle surprise.

[f the letter]

4. Shocked i tell ya n/t

[rockybelt]

5. I sure will be glad

when the democrats finally gain control of the House and Senate. Then,. by God, things will change.:sarcasm:

[donkeyotay]

6. This has got to stop.

Not only are they not held accountable for their corrupt practices while allegedly serving the public interest, but then they profit from the policies they wrote:

The CIFA contract was awarded just two months after QinetiQ hired Stephen Cambone . . . While he was at the Pentagon, Cambone oversaw CIFA...

The army of repos that have left public office are cashing in.

[Virginia Dare]

8. Isn't that just the sweetest thing?

I tell you these guys bring the term "sweetheart deal" to an epic level.

[Supersedeas]

9. A legacy of cronyism