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Octafish

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8. This isn't a matter of politics. It's a matter of integrity.
Mon Oct 5, 2015, 04:58 PM
Oct 2015

It's not the voters or the President. Based on the evidence before our eyes, traitors, warmongers, war profiteers and psycho killers run the nation's war machine.



Behind the Curtain: Booz Allen Hamilton and its Owner, The Carlyle Group

Written by Bob Adelmann
The New American; June 13, 2013

According to writers Thomas Heath and Marjorie Censer at the Washington Post, The Carlyle Group and its errant child, Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), have a public relations problem, thanks to NSA leaker and former BAH employee Edward Snowden. By the time top management at BAH learned that one of their top level agents had gone rogue, and terminated his employment, it was too late.

For years Carlyle had, according to the Post, “nurtured a reputation as a financially sophisticated asset manager that buys and sells everything from railroads to oil refineries”; but now the light from the Snowden revelations has revealed nothing more than two companies, parent and child, “bound by the thread of turning government secrets into profits.”

And have they ever. When The Carlyle Group bought BAH back in 2008, it was totally dependent upon government contracts in the fields of information technology (IT) and systems engineering for its bread and butter. But there wasn't much butter: After two years the company’s gross revenues were $5.1 billion but net profits were a minuscule $25 million, close to a rounding error on the company’s financial statement. In 2012, however, BAH grossed $5.8 billion and showed earnings of $219 million, nearly a nine-fold increase in net revenues and a nice gain in value for Carlyle.

Unwittingly, the Post authors exposed the real reason for the jump in profitability: close ties and interconnected relationships between top people at Carlyle and BAH, and the agencies with which they are working. The authors quoted George Price, an equity analyst at BB&T Capital: " got a great brand, they've focused over time on hiring top people, including bringing on people who have a lot of senior government experience."

CONTINUED w Links n Privatized INTEL...

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/15696-behind-the-curtain-booz-allen-hamilton-and-its-owner-the-carlyle-group



Wouldn't it be great to live in a democracy, a republic built on equal justice for all? That way, traitors, warmongers and banksters would be in jail instead of printing money.

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How can anyone possibly justify this? Scuba Oct 2015 #1
This isn't a matter of politics. It's a matter of integrity. Octafish Oct 2015 #8
To quote Alan Grayson ... Scuba Oct 2015 #16
WikiLeaks showed all of that is for-profit. Octafish Oct 2015 #18
"traiters, warmongers, war profiteers, and psycho killers run the nation's war machine...' YoungDemCA Oct 2015 #20
Because it's all done for the 'freedoms'...... daleanime Oct 2015 #30
You seem anxious to paint me a Conspiracy Theorist. Octafish Oct 2015 #33
A MSF person said on Andrea Mitchell that tishaLA Oct 2015 #2
Business as usual for Andrea Mitchell. Octafish Oct 2015 #11
Someone fairly far up the chain of command authorized that strike Fumesucker Oct 2015 #3
Abu Ghraib got pinned on the noncoms and lower ranks. Octafish Oct 2015 #10
In my view the reason they came out with this story is because no credible enlisted scapegoat Fumesucker Oct 2015 #19
Here comes the spin ! Truprogressive85 Oct 2015 #4
One brave soldier went to jail over war crimes. Octafish Oct 2015 #9
You are correct Truprogressive85 Oct 2015 #15
The real world isn't as simple as "good guys" vs "bad guys" YoungDemCA Oct 2015 #21
As soon as the US forces conduct their FlatBaroque Oct 2015 #5
I know where you're going with this... Octafish Oct 2015 #12
nut with a gun bad, president with a drone....good nt msongs Oct 2015 #6
This one is on the CIA or Pentagon... Octafish Oct 2015 #13
Now it is the Afghan forces who asked the US to conduct malaise Oct 2015 #7
It is a nightmare for us... Octafish Oct 2015 #14
When the alibi keeps changing somebody lying. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #17
Top U.S. general in Afghanistan: Hospital was ‘mistakenly struck’ Octafish Oct 2015 #34
Glenn Greenwald should stick to what he does best YoungDemCA Oct 2015 #22
In the pantheon of "pathetic responses to an OP" ..................... marmar Oct 2015 #25
That was pretty pitiful wasn't it? hobbit709 Oct 2015 #26
Hall of Shame...... daleanime Oct 2015 #31
YoungDemCA, what do you do best? Octafish Oct 2015 #35
I disagree. Greenwald does this quite well too. Exploiting tragedies for his BS worldview uhnope Oct 2015 #36
Blowing up a hospital is just a "tragedy" huh? More of that collateral damage? marmar Oct 2015 #39
lol uhnope Oct 2015 #40
Lol translated: You've got nothing. marmar Oct 2015 #41
you think a horrible accident is not a "tragedy"? WTF? uhnope Oct 2015 #43
k/r while reading this excellent piece nationalize the fed Oct 2015 #23
+1. nt bemildred Oct 2015 #27
Militarism is always accompanied by pants-on-fire lies. marmar Oct 2015 #24
only western militarism. Russian militarism is honest and pure and good because it is anti-Western uhnope Oct 2015 #37
Good grief. Give it a rest. marmar Oct 2015 #38
I knew they'd come up with this type story. cwydro Oct 2015 #28
For several days, Afghan government forces have been fighting the Taliban cheapdate Oct 2015 #29
My off-the-wall theory nitpicker Oct 2015 #32
It was not a mistake, that was a deliberate bombing strike. Rex Oct 2015 #42
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