via Noah Shachtman
If you've heard of the Pentagon's Counter-Intelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, at all, it's probably because of a database the agency kept of so-called "suspicious incidents" and "potential terrorist activities." You know: scary, scary stuff like "church service[s] for peace" and "US group[s] exercising Constitutional rights."
But there may be renewed attention paid to the Pentagon office, tasked with monitoring terrorist threats to U.S. military bases. CIFA has just handed a major contract to the new company of Steven Cambone, Donald Rumsfeld's former Undersecretary for Intelligence. Which is a little... odd. Since he's the guy that helped create the agency in the first place, Tim Shorrock writes at CorpWatch...
Ah, yes, Darth Rumsfeld's old stand by, QinetiQ's back up to it's old tricks. QinetiQ, where George Tenet went to play after he got his Preznit service award. QinetiQ, the specialty op the Carlyle Group bought from Her Majesty's Secret Service once it became clear they could do more as private contractors than with any kind of messy oversight, even Top Secret oversight, and it's been growing ever since.
Old Ringwraiths never die, they just slink off to Mordor to regain a new shape and ride the night again.
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