Domestic surveillance in America: The Pentagon’s Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) office signed onto this website today to read my story on the contract it recently awarded to a British contractor linked to former defense intelligence boss Stephen Cambone. The IP address (below) is one of CIFA’s nodes, based apparently in San Diego, on the Department of Defense’s highly classified Network Information Center (click the second link in green to follow a CIFA agent’s Google search). Hey CIFA, in return for peeking onto my website, how about giving me access to your’s? And why is a DoD agency spying on Americans anyway?
Meanwhile, over at Emptywheel, you can read more on Cambone and CIFA’s ties with contractors such as MZM, the company linked to the corrupt congressman Duke Cunningham. Emptywheel might find it interesting that MZM, after being sold to private equity fund Veritas Capital and renamed Athena Innovative Solutions, is now owned by CACI International. CACI, one of the Pentagon’s favorite contractors during the Rumsfeld-Cambone era, is forever linked to the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. You can read much more about CACI’s history, CIFA and the defense intelligence enterprise in my upcoming book, SPIES FOR HIRE, which will be out in May from Simon & Schuster.
Update: Since I posted this item 12 hours ago, my site has received hits from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the US Coast Guard, the Rand Corporation, the US Southern Command and the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, where someone reached the site by searching (in Ask.com) “Who is Tim Shorrock?” Another hit came from Intelligent Software Solutions, a defense contractor deeply engaged in network centric warfare that holds contracts, according to its website, with the National Security Agency, the US Central Command, the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Air Force. Nice to see I’m being read.
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| 17th January 2008 | 10:41:06 | www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14898 TimShorrock.com |
| 17th January 2008 | 12:04:08 | www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cifa contract cambone TimShorrock.com » Blog Archive » Stephen Cambone, War |
