Chief NSA contractor Booz Allen also working for United Arab Emirates

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Chief NSA contractor also working for United Arab Emirates

A private NSA contractor is doing quite well thanks in part to wealthy sheiks in the United Arab Emirates. What could possibly go wrong with that?

When the United Arab Emirates wanted to create its own version of the National Security Agency, it turned to Booz Allen Hamilton to replicate the world’s largest and most powerful spy agency in the sands of Abu Dhabi.
It was a natural choice: The chief architect of Booz Allen’s cyberstrategy is Mike McConnell, who once led the N.S.A. and pushed the United States into a new era of big data espionage. It was Mr. McConnell who won the blessing of the American intelligence agencies to bolster the Persian Gulf sheikdom, which helps track the Iranians.

“They are teaching everything,” one Arab official familiar with the effort said. “Data mining, Web surveillance, all sorts of digital intelligence collection.”

It's swell they got a blessing and great they're teaching the UAE everything.

Source

As a forensics accountant (in-training) I am interested in money trails. So let's do a small follow money.
Question:
Who is Booz Allen Hamilton owed by?

Booz Allen Is Owned By the Carlyle Group:
Booz Allen Hamilton is majority owned by private equity firm The Carlyle Group, while Booz & Company is owned and operated as a partnership. On November 17, 2010, Booz Allen's shares of common stock began trading at the New York Stock Exchange.
[the Carlyle Group is/was owned by Poppy Bush, head of the Bushista Crime Family].
George H. W. Bush, former U.S. President, Senior Advisor to the Carlyle Asia Advisory Board from April 1998 to October 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen

Snowden is getting smeared for "espionage-related stuff" while the Boozers openly teach foreign countries all about this.

Sweet. Always good to be in the drivers seat. Isn't it?

[leveymg]

1. Just another step in the offshore privatization of US intelligence going back to Bush, Sr.

Please, see, See, http://journals.democraticunderground.com/leveymg/280

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2. No disagreement there. Heck, I plan on getting my Data mining cert after I finish my CPA

[leveymg]

3. I have Open Source intelligence analysis on my resume, too.

We should become a contractor.

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4. hehe, lots of money to be made. :)

You'll always have some flag waving patriot defending whatever you do too.

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6. k

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5. .

[Harmony Blue]

7. Acorrding to Plame about

60% of intelligence workload is done by private contractors now. That is crazy.

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8. Thats amazing, and they have a problem with Snowden...to funny

[leveymg]

9. That's about the same ratio as private security contractors to troops in Afghanistan.

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It's all over the federal gov't, particularly DoD/IC.

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10. agree

[felix_numinous]

11. Ah I feel better now

and finally can go back to sleep.....zzzz

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12. :)

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13. Rec.