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> From: "Cactus Pat"
> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:00:36 -0400
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> Subject: [USDemocrat2] The Military-Industrial Connection to E-Voting
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> http://www.markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2003_09_21_markcrispinmiller_archive.html#106459952070478726
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> The Military-Industrial Connection to E-Voting
>
> What's SAIC Spelled Backward?
>
> 1. Suspected bio-terrorist Steven Hatfill worked, or works, with SAIC
>
> WASHINGTON POST - [Stephen Hatfill] took a consulting job with the
> behemoth government contractor Science Applications International Corp.,
> better known as SAIC. With a sprawling campus in McLean, it did work for
> a multitude of federal agencies. Many projects we re classified, and
> SAIC's tight relationship with the CIA had led to a standin g one-liner:
> "What is SAIC spelled backwards?"
>
> At SAIC, Hatfill designed and taught bioterror preparedness courses, but
> his responsibilities also included "black," or classified, biowarfare
> projects. One of Hatfill's major roles was working with the Joint
> Special Operations Command, which handled U.S. military
> counter-terrorism operations. At Fort Bragg, N.C., Hatfill led gruelling
> training for Army commandos preparing for covert missions to find and
> destroy weapons of mass destruction, according to friends and former
> colleagues. He conducted counter-terrorism training for Defense
> Intelligence agents and did a "super job," says DIA spokesman Don Black.
>
> Hatfill designed programs and training equipment for Navy SEALs, and
> SAIC colleagues say he often sat at his desk designing mock bioterror
> training devices, including a backpack that could be used by enemies to
> spray germs on the battlefield. He trained CIA agents in
> counter -proliferation, and shuttled to U.S. embassies abroad to teach
> bioterrorism preparedness.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49717-2003Sep9.html
>
> 2. Maryland used SAIC to justify the use of Diebold machines
>
> MARYLAND USES HUGE CIA-DOD CONTRACTOR TO JUSTIFY E-VOTING SYSTEM
>
> TOM STUCKEY ASSOCIATED PRESS - Maryland will go ahead with plans to buy
> $55.6 million worth of electronic voting machines, relying on a
> consultant's report that state officials say shows numerous potential
> security problems can be fixed before the presidential primary next
> March. "We remain very confident in thi s voting system," James "Chip"
> DiPaula, state budget secretary said Wednesday. He said Diebold Election
> Systems of North Canton, Ohio, has already incorporated three new
> security features to correct problems that critics of the touch-screen
> machines say mad e them vulnerable to massive election fraud.
> Other "vulnerabilities" cited by the consultant, Science Application
> International Corp., will be corrected by security procedures to be
> implemented by state and local election boards, DiPaula said. . . The
> report did not satisfy Avi Rubin, an associate professor of computer
> science at Johns Hopkins University, whose study released in July
> prompted national debate over the security of electronic voting systems.
> Rubin, lead researcher on the report, said at the time that the Diebold
> system was so flawed it could be easily manipulated. . . David Dill, a
> Stanford Un iversity computer science professor, said he still has
> concerns about the machines, including the possibility that a malicious
> code could be inserted by a programmer at Diebold. . . Thomas W.
> Swidarski, president of Diebold Election Systems, said the SAIC study
> "verifies that the Diebold voting station provides an unprecedented
> lev el of election security."
>
> 3. SAIC a major US mercenary
>
> LESLIE WAYNE, NY TIMES - Mercenaries, as they were once known, are
> thriving - only this time they are called private military contractors,
> and some are even subsidiaries of Fortune 500 companies. The Pentagon
> cannot go to war without them. Often run by retired military officers,
> including three- and four-star generals, private military contractors
> are the new business face of war. Blurring the line between military and
> civilian, they provide stand-ins for activ e soldiers in everything from
> logistical support to battlefield training and military advice at home
> and abroad. . .
>
> Motivated as much by profits as politics, these companies - about 35 all
> told in the United States - need the government's permission to be in
> business. A few are somewhat familiar names, like Kellogg Brown & Root,
> a subsidiary of the Halliburton Company that operates for the government
> in Cuba and Central Asia. Others have more cryptic names, like DynCorp;
> Vinnell, a subsidiary of TRW; SAIC; ICI of Oregon; and Logicon, a unit
> of Northrop Grumman. One of the best known, MPRI, boasts of having "more
> generals per square foot than in the Pentagon."
>
> 4. SAIC exec involved in propaganda drive in favor of e-voting
>
> SCOOP, NEW ZEALAND - On the board of the Enterprise Solutions Division
> of the Information Technology Associat ion of America - a lobbying
> organization bidding to provide a $200,000+ public opinion manipulation
> campaign on electronic voting - is a senior vice president of SAIC, the
> company tasked with investigating the security of the Diebold voting
> machine technology in the states of Maryland and Ohio. The revelation
> that Ronald J Knecht, Senior Vice President, SAIC, and a former defense
> intelligence chief, is connected to the proposed voting machine
> whitewash push seems certain to fuel public concerns about th e number of
> conflicts on interest in the voting machine industry.
>
> http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0308/S00173.htm
>
> 5. David Kay—Bush/Cheney's latest "weapons inspector" in Iraq—is on the SAIC payroll
>
> GUERILLA NEWS - [David] Kay has also been involved with one of the
&g t; nation's major defense contractors, serving as a Senior Vice President
> for the San Diego-based Science Applications International Corporation.
> The company's Web site proudly describes itself as "the nation's largest
> employee-owned research and engineering company, providing information
> technology, systems integration and eSolutions to commercial and
> government customers." According to a mid-August report by Katrin
> Dauenhauer and Jim Lobe in Asia Times, "Of the six billion dollars it
> [SAIC] earned in revenue last year, about two thirds came from the U.S.
> Treasury, mostly from the defense bu dget."
>
> SAIC, heavily involved with homeland security projects, has already
> acquired several reconstruction contracts in Iraq, and Kay and a number
> of other former company employees are firmly planted in country. The
> company "has been running the Iraqi Reconstruction and D evelopment
> Council since the body was established by the Pentagon in February,"
> Dauenhauer and Lobe reported. "SAIC is also a subcontractor under
> Vinnell Corporation, another big defense contractor that has long been
> in charge of training for the Saudi National Guard, hired to
> reconstitute and train a new Iraqi army." And SAIC is also running the
> recently established Iraqi Media Network project, whose charge was to
> "was to put together a new information ministry, complete with
> television, radio and a newspaper, and the content that would make all
> three attractive to average Iraqis."
>
> http://www.guerr illanews.com/sci-tech/doc2946.html
>
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