Corporate Fury Over NSA's Contracting Ties Is Why Snowdon In Trouble.

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37. It's true - Carlyle Group does have a majority ownership stake in Booz Allen

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-11/business/39896957_1_carlyle-group-nsa-firm

NSA revelations put Booz Allen Hamilton, Carlyle Group in uncomfortable limelight
By Thomas Heath and Marjorie Censer,June 11, 2013

The Carlyle Group owns a majority stake in contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.

The Carlyle Group owns a majority stake in contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters )

The Carlyle Group has spent years attempting to shed its image as a well-connected private equity firm leveraging Washington heavyweights in the defense sector. Instead, it nurtured a reputation as a financially sophisticated asset manager that buys and sells everything from railroads to oil refineries.

The recent disclosures involving National Security Agency surveillance on U.S. citizens by an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, a Virginia consulting firm that is majority owned by Carlyle, has thrust two of Washington’s most prominent corporate entities uncomfortably into the limelight, bound by the thread of turning government secrets into profits.

Booz Allen employee Edward Snowden was fired Tuesday after he confessed to being the source of stories about NSA data collection programs. Federal investigators are examining how Snowden, who worked at an NSA facility in Hawaii and had also worked for the CIA, was able to gain access to sensitive information.