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1. “Contracting Filth” Some time ago I propounded the space-time paradigm of the circle of filth. I said: The circle of filth is a transnational, multi-generational effort of organizations and individuals. It might help to read that thread https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/1001241112772775938
2. I previously explained that spooks/spies exert influence on the political machine in ways hitherto unknown to us. Yet, they aren't completely immune to discovery. That is a disadvantage to those in pursuit of unbridled power. The cloak of anonymity is not absolute.
3. The corridors of unabated, unchecked and unfettered power lie outside inherent governmental checks/balances. Its denizens are power players with absolute understanding of power structure within, manipulating levers from the outside. They are “Defense/Intelligence Contractors”
4. The total size of the US “Black budget” is about $52.6 billion. The CIA, NSA and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) receive more than 68 percent of it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/?noredirect=on
5. Depending upon sources, some estimate that as much as 70% of intelligence budget is allocated to private defense contractors. In 2008 it was a $50 billion industry. Many companies depend entirely on government contracts for revenue. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90411856
6. The Analysis Corporation (TAC) was founded in 1990 as a private intelligence contractor and transformed rapidly into an intelligence contracting powerhouse, one of the many transnational private spy firms making money on taxpayer dime. It’s history is worth enumerating.
7. TAC was founded in 1990 by Cecilia Hayes, current owner of TAC Commercial Services and Nations Home Group. Ms. Hayes remained president of TAC till 2005, when John Brennan left government, becoming CEO of The Analysis Corporation (TAC). Brennan who would later head Obama’s CIA
8. (TAC) was acquired by Sachs-Freeman inc (SFA) in 2003. In 2007 SFA was acquired by Global Strategies Group, an integrated security company operating in some of the world’s most challenging environments. In 2008 SFA changed its name to Global strategies group North America
9. In 2009, the holding company of Global Strategies Group (North America) Inc/ Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc. (GTEC). In 2011 GTEC was acquired by Ares Management becamoming Sotera Defense Solutions.
10. Sotera… Why does that name sound so familiar, where have I heard it before? Jack Hess is the Senior VP for the Intelligence Operations & Technology (IOT) Division. https://idraintheswamp.com/home/central-intelligence-agency-cia/john-o-brennan/analysis-corporation/
11. Hess retired as Special Agent from the FBI Senior Executive Service (SES) in 2009 after 21 years. He held various senior positions in the FBI, including Associate Director of National Intelligence. Jack is married to Amy Hess http://www.wlky.com/article/southern-indiana-native-settles-into-role-as-fbi-special-agent-in-charge/8948839
12. Amy Hess is James Comey's FBI appointee, heading operational technology division (OTD) using high tech tools in cyber investigation of cases such as San Bernardino massacre and Boston Marathon Bombing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/meet-the-woman-in-charge-of-the-fbis-most-contentious-high-tech-tools/2015/12/08/15adb35e-9860-11e5-8917-653b65c809eb_story.html?utm_term=.0daf1aea2aed
13. Over the last two decades, thousands of intelligence officials and operatives left government posts to take up positions at military contractors, consultancies, law firms. They replicate what they did in government, often for same agencies. But, strictly for-profit.
14. Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) is a powerful but
little-known coalition established by companies working for the National Security Agency. John Brennan became its chairman at the same time as heading TAC.
15. In 2009, Michael Chertoff & Michael Hayden, top national-security officials in Bush administration left their positions at the Justice Department and the NSA, respectively, and created the Chertoff Group, one of Washington’s largest consulting firms. https://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
16. Look at the list of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign “security working group” It includes a who’s who of lobbyists for the military-industrial complex including Michael Chertoff, David Patreaus, Mike Morell and others https://twitter.com/mollymotoole/status/773890559941414912
17. Petraeus currently works at the investment firm KKR & Co., Chertoff’s firm touted full-body scanners at airports while his firm was employed by a company that produced body scanning machines. https://theintercept.com/2016/09/08/hillary-clintons-national-security-advisors-are-a-whos-who-of-the-warfare-state/
18. Mike Morell, former acting director of the CIA, endorsed Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece that accused Trump of being an “unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.”
19. Of course NYT completely neglected to mention Morell was employed by Beacon Global Strategies, a politically powerful national-security consulting firm with links to Clinton.
20. Beacon Global Strategies is a shadowy consulting firm stacked with former Obama administration officials, high profile Republicans and a number of Hillary Clinton’s closest foreign policy advisers.
21. Andrew Shapiro of Beacon was previously Asst Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, prior to that, he served as a Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Prior to joining the State Dept with Hillary, he was Hillary’s Senior Foreign Policy Advisor
22. Beacon, was founded right after Clinton left State Department in 2013 The firm’s principals include Pentagon Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash, a Clinton campaign adviser who has made specific policy promises on behalf of the candidate (cont..)
23. along with Clinton State Department spokesperson Phillipe Reines; former CIA director Leon Panetta; former CIA director Michael Morrell, and Michael Vickers, a former CIA and Pentagon official
24. See #16 above: that is the entire list of Hillary’s security working group plus Chertoff and Petraeus. So they went from government to intelligence consulting back to Politics, albeit from the outside. Isn't that something?
25. Any surprise that the Obama State Department delayed its response to a 2015 public records request for any correspondence between Beacon and state dept. officials until May 2017 (till after the election)? http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/state-department-delays-records-request-about-clinton-linked-firm-until-after-2016
26. It gets even more interesting: Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz also received foreign policy advice from Beacon. After all Beacon also boasts a slew of names from the Bush intelligence community. Who says bipartisanship is dead? https://theintercept.com/2015/12/18/beacon-global-strategies/
27. Beacon Global Strategies’ clients and services are a mystery, its seed funding came from Claude Fontheim, a former Clinton adviser who now serves as a lobbyist to the U.S.-China Exchange Foundation, used to shape American policy towards China
28. If you haven't digested all this information yet, I suggest you go back and at get a gestalt of the convoluted “internal-external” power structure of the complex. If you don't know the origins of the Trump-Russia dossier, go and read it. I have written extensively about it.
29. Michael Morell of Beacon said he had learned that Christopher Steele (they guy who wrote the Trump Russia Dossier), paid his key Russian sources, and interviewed them through intermediaries. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clinton-ally-says-smoke-no-fire-no-russia-trump-collusion-n734176
30. If you pay people through intermediaries, they keep feeding you stories in exchange for money. The dossier served as part of the FBI’s justification for seeking FISA court’s approval to clandestinely monitor the communications of Carter Page. http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/10/30/klein-disclosures-raise-questions-whether-dnc-clinton-cash-paid-russian-agents-cited-anti-trump-dossier/
31. Alliance for securing democracy a “bipartisan” organization states that Russian bots and accounts are to blame for the 2A hashtags on twitter in the wake of the Parkland shooting. Russia seems to be thematic with certain organizations https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/russian-bots-are-using-2016-tactics-to-hijack-the-gun-debate-on-twitter
32. Tthe group describes itself as “a bipartisan, transatlantic initiative” that “will develop comprehensive strategies to defend against, deter, and raise the costs on Russian and other state actors’ efforts to undermine democracy and democratic institutions”
33. It is the union of mainstream Dem foreign policy officials and most militant, and militaristic, neocons. The group is led by two Washington foreign policy hands, one from establishment Democratic wing and the other a key figure among GOP neocons. https://theintercept.com/2017/07/17/with-new-d-c-policy-group-dems-continue-to-rehabilitate-and-unify-with-bush-era-neocons/
34. Dem, Laura Rosenberger, served as foreign policy adviser for Hillary’s 2016 campaign and chief of staff to 2 Obama national security officials.
35. The Republican is Jamie Fly, who spent the last four years as counselor for foreign and national security affairs to Marco Rubio; prior to that, he served in various capacities in the Bush Pentagon.
36. Does this theme sound familiar to you? Almost a repeat of Beacon’s insider make up? Lets look at their board: Chertoff, Bill Kristol, Mike Morell, Jim Stavridis, Jake Sullivan. Remarkable similarities: a coincidence? http://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/team/advisory-council
37. There is one name that really stood out: David Kramer: McCain’s “Man Friday” that acted as an intermediary between the Christopher Steele and John McCain. What are the odds that he same players are everywhere? https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/946240939986743297
38. To recapitulate: the military industrial complex serves both parties to further their nefarious motives, to sow discord and create smokescreens and further the “Russian meddling in everything” narrative. By doing so it does two important things.
39. It keeps the American people convinced that Trump’s victory remains in question and at the same time it propels the need for increased spending into the coffers of the private agencies and contractors that constantly need sustenance from it.
40. Even Google, Crowdstrike and other have constant infusions of personnel from the intelligence community: https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/988913304327409664
41. The critical point that private contractors are the same people that worked in government under the same politicians peddling the same narrative is completely lost on a languid and easily distracted populace.
42. You can easily hypnotize the easily suggestible and wordcraft is a subset of tradecraft.
I have only written about a tiny fraction of the filth out there. The deeper you go, the more uncomfortable it becomes. I have come up for air now. It’s your turn, happy digging
-Fin
I have only written about a tiny fraction of the filth out there. The deeper you go, the more uncomfortable it becomes. I have come up for air now. It’s your turn, happy digging
-Fin
