Who wants to know?

Someone at saic.com has today been having a look at a post (backup) I put up back in January. It looks like they got to it by a Google search: "the most mysterious and feared of the big 10 defense giants", and later, I see another search for fbi saic problem.

Just saying. And it gives me the chance to remind us all of a few things about SAIC:

SAIC was involved in the recent spate of identify theft.

"SAIC lost some computers containing important personal information on federal credit card holders..."
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It was also involved in failed propaganda for Iraqi citizens.

The U.S. funded Iraqi Media Network was supposed to bring "independent" journalism to a "liberated" Iraq. The reality, however, is that IMN's Al Iraqiya radio and television station are failing, according to CorpWatch's Pratap Chatterjee. The stations, run by top CIA contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), seem almost irrelevant given the more popular satellite news channels Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya and the common criticism that "Al Iraqiya has no news. Just yesterday's information." Working under Coalition Provisional Authority guidelines, Al Iraqiya reporters are barred from reporting anything that might incited violence. Many who worked for SAIC on the IMN project blame the CPA for the network's failure. Veteran network news foreign correspondent Don North called Al Iraqiya 'Project Frustration' when he quit in July. "IMN has become an irrelevant mouthpiece for CPA propaganda, managed news and mediocre programs. I have trained journalists after the fall of tyrannies in Bosnia, Romania and Afghanistan."
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It also happens to be involved in espionage.

"SAIC's biggest source of income is surveillance especially for the United States spy agencies: it is reportedly the largest recipient of contracts from the National Security Agency (NSA) and one of the top five contractors to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

...SAIC has dozens of other government contracts: it trains air marshals for the Federal Aviation Administration, works with Bechtel to run the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada on Western Shoshone traditional lands (despite major protests from the Native Americans), The Army hired the company to destroy old chemical weapons at Aberdeen Proving Ground, the National Cancer Institute uses SAIC to help run its research facility in Frederick, the Transportation Security Administration asked it to dispose of scissors and pocket knives confiscated from air travelers and SAIC's unmanned Vigilante helicopters, equipped with Raytheon's low-cost, precision-kill rockets, are to undergo testing by the Army."
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Venezuelan government officials believe SAIC was using INTESA for espionage purposes in Venezuela due to its strong ties to the Pentagon, the CIA and the NSA. Its current and past board of directors include former NSA president Bobby Inman, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former head of the research and development division of the Pentagon Donald Hicks, ex-Secretary of Defense William Perry, ex-CIA Director John Deutsch, and ex-CIA director Robert Gates. William B. Black Jr. served at Assistant Vice President at SAIC for three years after retiring from the NSA in 1997. Black later returned to the NSA as deputy director in 2000.
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SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), a San Diego IT research and engineering company run by former CIA, NSA, Pentagon employees, has accused Venezuela's oil company, PDVSA, of "expropriating" its assets, and OPIC has ruled that the U.S. will have to reimburse SAIC in some yet to be determined amount of dollars (SAIC's claim is around $6 million).

"In 1996, before Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took office, under PDVSA's slow path towards privatization led by company president Luis Giusti, SAIC and PDVSA formed a joint venture called Informatica, Negocios y Tecnologia S.A. (INTESA) to manage the oil company's outsourced IT operations. The two companies signed a five-year contract that could be renewed upon agreement by both parties.

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"PDVSA has offered to pay SAIC its share of the value of the company as determined by an independent audit, but "SAIC has refused even to meet, and has consistently refused to allow any independent audit of INTESA's books."
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Venezuela also claims SAIC participated in the coup against Hugo Chávez in 2002. Have a look a the list of SAIC's board of directors. I don't know where anyone would get the idea that the company was participating in espionage in Venezuela. At any rate, here's Venezuela's side of the saga.

As far as I know, the American taxpayers are going to reimburse SAIC's claim, as determined by a ruling from OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), which supposedly monitors overseas business contracts for political repercussions.

Talk about yer Yankee ingenuity....I think it's marvelous how this group of Pentagon-CIA-State people manage to funnel American working stiffs' money into their own bank accounts. Heck, what's a political post in the service of your country good for if not lining your pockets?

And, oh yeah...SAIC is also in the voter fraud business.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.