[Peace-discuss] SAIC- Info leafleting at research park next Fri???

[Stuart Levy]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 02:01:10PM -0700, Paul Mueth wrote:
> whew, already thursday, just finished spies for hire
> and it's due back library . . . Does anyone on the
> list have the call out for it.
> 
> 
> I heard back from Gabe, Stuart  and Jenifer (ok, I
> don't know Rosie Ledett's body of work  smilicon here)
> here's the link for the Bartlett and Steele article
> http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/spyagency200703
> here's corpwatch on saic
> 
> http://www.corpwatch.org/search.php?q=&section=&template_section=&author=By+Author&tag=By+Tag&fulltext=saic&section_logic_plus=&class=&date%5BY%5D=&date%5BM%5D=&region=&First_Name_2008=First+Name&AMPSearch=Search

Thanks.

You mentioned the concert is Friday (tomorrow!), but where and what time?
I might or might not be able to come depending on time & weather.

 
> here's what I've written, more text than bullet points
> and attached
> 
> 
> WHAT IS SAIC DOING IN RESEARCH PARK???
> 
> A Scientific Applications in International Computing
> corporate spokesperson said in the journal Business
> 2.0 "We are a stealth company. We're everywhere, but
> almost never seen."
>     Indeed, they were there when pardoned felon
> Admiral Poindexter began the Total Information
> Awareness (TIA) project and received some of those
> early development contracts. TIA was nominally ended
> but the data mining techniques are fundamental to NSA
> and other government surveillance which go on, full
> speed ahead. With, of course, retroactive immunity ..
> . 
>    Tim Shorrock's recent book Spies for Hire points
> out that SAIC is fully a creature of the government:
> 90% of its revenue comes from federal contracts and
> further he asserts "  . . . the agency (NSA) is the
> company's largest single customer and SAIC is the
> NSA's single contractor."  Its board has always had
> many CIA alumni.
>    SAIC was an early arrival to Iraq also, to join the
> corporate bonanza there. It had multiple contracts,
> including one for $15 million to help set up an
> independent media network, within six months $82
> million was spent with nothing to show. . . 
>    For more info, Tim Shorrock writes at corpwatch.org
> and his own website. Vanity Fair's March 07 article
> Washington's $8 Billion Shadow  by veteran
> investigative journalists Barlett and Steele is the
> first major treatment in the US press.
> 
> 
> I was hoping for a few folks to print, perhaps on
> colored paper. perhaps we could meet before the
> concert, shuffle the leaflets a bit and distribute
> before the show as people are arriving ..  I actually
> want to enjoy Rosie performance..
> 
> cheers

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