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In reply to the discussion: How the CIA gets away with it: Our democracy is their real enemy [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)13. Too many secrets for proper supervision, let alone Justice.
CIA moonlights in corporate world
By EAMON JAVERS
Politico, 2/1/10
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nations top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.
In one case, these active-duty officers moonlighted at a hedge-fund consulting firm that wanted to tap their expertise in deception detection, the highly specialized art of telling when executives may be lying based on clues in a conversation.
The never-before-revealed policy comes to light as the CIA and other intelligence agencies are once again under fire for failing to connect the dots, this time in the Christmas Day bombing plot on Northwest Flight 253.
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But the close ties between active-duty and retired CIA officers at one consulting company show the degree to which CIA-style intelligence gathering techniques have been employed by hedge funds and financial institutions in the global economy.
The firm is called Business Intelligence Advisors, and it is based in Boston. BIA was founded and is staffed by a number of retired CIA officers, and it specializes in the arcane field of deception detection. BIAs clients have included Goldman Sachs and the enormous hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, according to spokesmen for both firms.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html#ixzz0eIFPhHBh
PS: Wouldn't it be great if We the People were in on a piece of the action, hootinholler? But no, that would be socialism and that's only for the 1-percent protected by Capitalism's Invisible Army.
By EAMON JAVERS
Politico, 2/1/10
In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nations top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.
In one case, these active-duty officers moonlighted at a hedge-fund consulting firm that wanted to tap their expertise in deception detection, the highly specialized art of telling when executives may be lying based on clues in a conversation.
The never-before-revealed policy comes to light as the CIA and other intelligence agencies are once again under fire for failing to connect the dots, this time in the Christmas Day bombing plot on Northwest Flight 253.
SNIP...
But the close ties between active-duty and retired CIA officers at one consulting company show the degree to which CIA-style intelligence gathering techniques have been employed by hedge funds and financial institutions in the global economy.
The firm is called Business Intelligence Advisors, and it is based in Boston. BIA was founded and is staffed by a number of retired CIA officers, and it specializes in the arcane field of deception detection. BIAs clients have included Goldman Sachs and the enormous hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, according to spokesmen for both firms.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32290.html#ixzz0eIFPhHBh
PS: Wouldn't it be great if We the People were in on a piece of the action, hootinholler? But no, that would be socialism and that's only for the 1-percent protected by Capitalism's Invisible Army.
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Secret government means no accountability. Also makes clear who the Enemy is: Us.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#3
I read somewhere that Michael Hastings next subject matter was to be Brennan.
mother earth
Feb 2015
#25
Church piped up, then the NSA got turned on him and soon Church was out of a job.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#8
And we are still expected to believe we live in a free country. The Torture Report seems to have
sabrina 1
Feb 2015
#46
Murderers, torturers, blackmailers, paid thugs, above the law and protected by politicians.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2015
#10
I keep unplugging the computer, then something happens and I have to plug it back in.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#20
When CIA doen't like the president, they'll wait until they have one they like.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#19
Not odd at all Octafish, their JOB is to make sure it doesn't get out to the public. They are
sabrina 1
Feb 2015
#47
Scott Horton is TOPS! The guy kept Gov. Don Siegelman's story in the spotlight.
Octafish
Feb 2015
#34