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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- ndependent Media Center
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Rev Moon, Richard Scaife, CSIS,
and 'Homeland Security'
Thursday 12 Sep 2002
by Margie Burns ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
summary
The proposed 'Department of Homeland Security,' brainchild of rightwing think tanks in the DC area, has been consistently boosted by Sun Myung Moon publications for over two years and financed by donors including Richard Mellon Scaife. One 'DHS' official comes from a corporation doing extensive federal business in cybersecurity.
REVEREND MOON, RICHARD SCAIFE, FEDERAL CONTRACTS: 'HOMELAND SECURITY'
Some recommended reading for back-to-schoolers, including those in Congress: a July 22, 2002, cover story in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Insight Magazine, titled "Security Blanket."
If you usually avoid Moon-connected publications, for good and sufficient reason, read this one with a view to learning where our national policy comes from:
"Bush's plan [for the 'Department of Homeland Security'] also shows the fingerprints of a series of homeland-security and related reports prepared by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), an independent think tank, under the general direction of veteran journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave with grants from Pittsburgh philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife. And it should: Bush's special assistant for Homeland Security, Frank Cilluffo, was day-to-day manager of the CSIS studies and is regarded by professionals as one of the best-informed and most forward-looking thinkers on the issue."
Moon media have been boosting the weird "homeland" catchphrase since well before September 2001. The Washington Times, UPI, and Insight Magazine have been consistent supporters of Anser, Inc's 'Institute for Homeland Security' for more than two years, and the Reverend Moon's entities typically support anything involving billions in military-technology contracts for Bush's corporate sponsors. These particular "faith-based organizations" have also given millions directly in speaker fees to former President Bush.
But this magazine article presents a truly bizarre combination of disclosure and concealment. Anyone who did not know that the secretive and ultraconservative mega-donor Richard Scaife was behind "homeland security" might well appreciate Insight's revealing this item.
However, the article does not mention that "veteran journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave" was editor-in-chief of the Washington Times, another Reverend Moon publication, from 1985 to 1991, and is still editor-at-large at the Times. Mr. de Borchgrave has also been President and CEO of United Press International, another Moon-owned media entity, where he is also now editor-at-large.
Nor does it mention that Mr. Cilluffo has co-authored publications with Mr. de Borchgrave and has directed seven "task forces" under a "Global Organized Crime Project" headed for years by Mr. de Borchgrave, according to CSIS.
Nor does it mention that in June 2001, Mr. Cilluffo was appointed to the Board of Directors and to the audit committee of a company named Litronic, Inc, now part of SSP Solutions, Inc.
SSP stands for Secure Service Provider; the company is largely a government contractor. Its web site states that "SSP-Litronic has a distinguished list of government clients, including: the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Interior, Justice, State and Treasury, as well as the CIA, FBA [sic], and NSA." According to a Litronic SEC 10-K, "Our products and services address the data security issues faced by government, financial services, and entertainment customers." The combined company, which also owns Pulsar, "distribute[s] our data security products to the government through our direct sales force and also through third party private contractors such as General Dynamics."
Any new 'Department of Homeland Security' would inevitably do business with SSP-Litronic. In 1999, according to SEC filings, 31% of the company's revenue came from sales to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 12% from the State Department; in 2000, 42% came from sales to the INS; in 2001, 20% from the INS.
Mr. Cilluffo has resigned from the board of SSP. Still, he has been boosting "homeland" threats for several years at the rightwing Center for Strategic and International Studies, shoulder to shoulder with Mr. de Borchgrave, supported by Moon publications; he then joined the Board of Directors of a company profiting from what he's been boosting; he has now been appointed to a government agency in the same line of work - and might in future move back to the same company. With, of course, no public disclosure from the White House. No wonder Bush is so intent on "flexibility" and speed in appointments. This "reverse revolving door," which is precisely one of the worst problems in Washington, usually helps funnel public money into private hands.
[I'VE GOT CALLS IN TO MR. CILLUFFO, ASKING FOR COMMENT; NO RESPONSE.]
Margie Burns
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
301-386-5615
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