Disturbing story about Wesley Clark

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http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:oiDFG3JC3AIJ:www.nwaonline.net/pdfarchive/2002/august/16/8-16-02%2520C2.pdf+Acxiom+%22wesley+clark%22+privacy&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


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The Little Rock-based data software provider has on more than one occasion
bragged about clandestine meetings it has had with very important people
in the Bush administration, all the way up to Vice President Dick Cheney.

Those whispers became stronger in December when retired NATO Commander Gen.
Wesley Clark became a member of the company's board of directors.

Clark, of course, still has connections with influential decision-makers
at the Pentagon, the State Department and other government agencies associated with
the military and foreign affairs.

The former military commander is reportedly leading a team of Acxiom executives
in high-level meeitngs with to procure some type of partnership that will make the
company a load of money in the future.

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Earlier this year, Acxiom was singled out for the "Big Brother Awards" by
Privacy International, a London-based activist organization made up of privacy
experts and human-rights organizations from several different countries.

Along with Attorney General John Ashcroft and database billionaire Larry Ellison,
Acxiom was named as one of the corporations, government officials, or private
individuals that allegedly have done the most to threaten personal privacy.

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Then, more recently:

http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/homelandsecurity/focusareas/infosharing.html

Homeland Security Information Sharing Conference Lacks Solutions

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Current and former political and military leaders, as well as industry officials, spent the first two days of the Second Annual Government Symposium on Information Sharing and Homeland Security offering up more obstacles than solutions to greater information sharing, according to reports by Government Computer News. The conference, being held in Philadelphia from 30 June - July 2, heard retired General Wesley Clark list funding difficulties for new ideas and "turf wars" between federal agencies as two obstacles. He blamed the federal procurement process, especially its procurement officials, for keeping unsolicited industry ideas from getting into the procurement pipeline.

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