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3. Science Applications International Corporation
Sometimes referred to as “NSA West” because so many former
NSA employees go on to work for the formerly California-based Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC), this firm makes a ton of
cash off government contracts. And they do so by hawking their expertise
in combatting the terrorist threat.
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Browse through SAIC's website and you're constantly greeted
with the words “terrorist threat” and information on how the SAIC can
help the government and others battle it. SAIC developed a “Terrorism
Protection Manual” for Florida law enforcement that was developed to fight “today's national terrorist threat and implement recommended security best practices.” They boast of their “experience meeting
the terrorism incident response training needs of a wide variety of
customers, from training for a national Weapons of Mass Destruction
(WMD) scenario, applicable at agency response levels, to lesser levels
of incidents affecting a city, a military installation or a special
facility.”
Back when John P. Jumper, the current CEO of SAIC, was an Air Force general, he said
the threat of terrorism is “greater than Nazism, greater than
communism. This threat that we have of terrorist zealots is the most
dangerous because these are people who care nothing about life. They
care nothing about our lives, for sure, and they care nothing about
their own lives.” And Larry Prior, a U.S. intelligence veteran who used
to run the company's Intelligence and Security Group, said in an
internal newsletter that “the future of the nation rests on their
backs,” referring to employees in his group.
SAIC is an immensely lucrative and large company. It boasts
42,000 employees—20,000 of whom hold U.S. government security
clearances. It is the NSA's largest contractor, according to CorpWatch, and is deeply involved in the NSA's collection of intelligence. Last year it reported a net income of $525 million.
4. Center for Counterintelligence and Security Studies
U.S. intelligence agencies aren't the only sectors of
government where the private sector has cashed in on the fear of
terrorism. The post-9/11 world has seen the blossoming of a cottage
industry of self-styled “experts” on Islam from private companies that
market their supposedly ironclad analysis of the threat from Islamists
to other federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. These
companies have profited from law enforcement taking part in the “war on
terror.”
Through Homeland Security grant programs like
the State Homeland Security Program and the Urban Areas Security
Initiative, the federal government has doled out over billions of
dollars to these private companies to provide Islamophobic training. One
of these companies is called the Center for Counterintelligence and
Security Studies.
Based in Virginia, the center “posits radical Islam as a
new global ideological menace on the order of the old communist threat
from the Soviet Union,” as Political Research Associates (PRA) noted in a 2011 report on private firms doing counter-terror training. Staff members include former FBI, CIA and Defense Department personnel.
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5. Security Solutions International
The company has trained over 700 law enforcement agencies
since 2004. Officials from law enforcement agencies like the
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Department of
Homeland Security have participated in the conferences they put on for
profit. While SSI claims that they don't cast aspersions on the whole of
Islam, an examination of their trainings, conferences and the speakers
they use indicate otherwise.
At a 2009 conference sponsored by Police magazine, an SSI
instructor who is the company's “expert” on Islam used a video that
showed a terrorist beheading a hostage. After the course was met with
criticism, the company's CEO said “their religion got linked to
terrorism a long time ago.”
The conferences they hold are usually well-attended, and
this year SSI is putting on a conference in Orlando, Florida for three
days. The cost for each attendee is $400. The
keynote speaker this year is Steve Emerson, a well-known member of
what's been termed the “Islamophobia industry.” SSI also makes money off
its Counter Terrorist magazine. A yearly subscription is $35, and the
company says it has 15,000 subscribers.
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