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arcane1

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Thu Jan 21, 2016, 06:43 PM Jan 2016

Half the Foreign Policy Experts Signing Clinton’s Anti-Sanders Letter Have Ties to Military Contract

Half the Foreign Policy Experts Signing Clinton’s Anti-Sanders Letter Have Ties to Military Contractors

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Here are some of the letter signatories’ current employment positions that were not disclosed in the reporting of the letter:

Former assistant defense secretary Derek Chollet, former Pentagon and CIA chief of staff Jeremy Bash, and former deputy national security adviser Julianne Smith are now employed by the consulting firm Beacon Global Strategies, a firm we profiled last year. Beacon Global Strategies’ staff advises both Clinton and Republican candidates for president, including Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. The firm makes money by providing advice to a clientele that is primarily military contractors. Beacon Global Strategies, however, has refused to disclose the identity of their clients.

Former undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns is a senior counselor at the Cohen Group, a consulting firm founded by former Defense Secretary William Cohen. The firm “assists aerospace and defense firms on policy, business development and transactions,” including deals in the U.S., Turkey, Israel, and the Middle East.

Former undersecretary of defense Jim Miller is an advisory board member to Endgame Systems, a start-up that has been called the “Blackwater of Hacking.” Miller is also on the board of BEI Precision Systems & Space, a military contractor.

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/21/clinton-foreign-policy-experts/

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Half the Foreign Policy Experts Signing Clinton’s Anti-Sanders Letter Have Ties to Military Contract (Original Post) arcane1 Jan 2016 OP
And every single one worked for bill's administration. Punkingal Jan 2016 #1
All 1%ers ... and the surprise is? Not. libdem4life Jan 2016 #2
Not every single one served Bill . . . Nanjeanne Jan 2016 #3
We can't afford single payer. But we can surely afford to bomb Syria! nt Romulox Jan 2016 #4
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