|
Hyperwave http://www.federal.hyperwave.com/partners/
and Cleverex are one giant company, they have a contract with
Health & Human Services, HHS, who preside over all MEDICARE, NIH,
and CDC affairs.
Press Release! HHS account
taken by Hyperwave!
http://www.hyperwave.com/e/news/pr111.html
http://www.federal.hyperwave.com/solutions/battlespaceawareness.html
Cleverex boasting of
doing Health & Human Services & HeadStart data
delivery/development, clearly stated on their homepage:
http://www.cleverex.com/
Among Cleverex's very closest
partners, you could call it even "intimate", is CSC, Computer Sciences Corp., aka DynCorp, the
notorious Pentagon contractor that got CRIMINALLY charged with trafficking
slaves and child prostitutes in Bosnia and the Balkans ... here is the report by THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC
INTEGRITY....click here!
Here is Cleverex's website on Promis
http://promisinfo.cleverex.com/Users/KDB.asp?Category=Updates&PageNo=3
Cleverex
Systems (Beijing), Inc.
Cleverex
Systems (Beijing), Inc. Happily Relocated Beijing, China .
-- 7/22/2005
-- To cope with the rapid outsourcing of US jobs to China and their rapid
expansion of Cleverex Systems (Beijing-Dept. of Homeland Security/HHS), they
are moving their Beijing offices to a newly built office building - the
Golden Dragon Plaza bordering with "Beijing's Silicon Valley",
Shang Di High Tech District.
Cleverex of PROMIS SOFTWARE deeply embedded in the U.S. Dept. of Health
& Human Services, is actively
marketing its BPM solutions to rapidly exploding numbers of enterprises in
China, and still a small few operations in the sleepy and relegated USA.
The other main data delivery/developer for HHS and Head Start is ICF/Caliber-ICF, another huge conglomerate that use to be Kaiser Engineering Global! They use PROMIS too!
http://www.icfconsulting.com/Services/Strategic_Communications/health-communications.asp
Strategic
Partners of CLEVEREX--below
Trans-Management
Systems Corporation (T-MSC) is a black minority (a few Scottish blacks
born in USA) government funded minority enterprise in Wash DC next door to
NED and the Georgian consulate near Washington Post Building... many ‘agents’ from Britain, Singapore, Hong
Kong, BAe, HHS, NSA in their offices working "for Head Start" children’s program as their cover (by outward
appearances T-MSC are the electronic publishing business for HEADSTART memos
and webpages). Some of their staff operated
in the shadows some AI computer networks out in [and near] Langley, a core
hardware matrix of the "surveillance of all e-medical file data on all
people" national system going global.
They had at various times contracts with Cleverex, ICF Consulting,
Kaiser Construction, Dept. of Health & Human Services, PROMIS, Trilogy,
Hyperwave, SAIC, CALIBER CONSULTING,
IBM Research Israel, & NIH, to name a few.
Affiliated
Computer Services, Inc. (ACS-human resources subsidiary of Lockheed missles
and main business partner of Cleverex-Hyperwave)
Dallas, TX Computer Science Corporation [CSC-DynCorp Pentagon merchant]
El Segundo, CA & DC Beltway! HYPERWAVE -- click here for Star Wars and Homeland
Security contracts!
Cleverex Systems maintains strong and healthy business relationships with all
its clients. Although our client base is too large to list each client
individually, a representative cross-section of our clients and major
business partners is presented below. A full listing of our clients is
available on request. Altogether, there over 1,200 client organizations in
the U.S.
Oakland, MD HealthSouth Corporation.... read here in the Washington
Post about the $2.5 BILLION dollar accounting scandal at HealthSouth!
Washington, DC US Department of
Health and Human Services [HHS] MIKE LEAVITT & WADE HORN
WADE HORN OF HHS
Propaganda of The Police State
Report: Wade Horn of HHS and neocon PR spending --doubling
under Bush
USA TODAY | January 28, 2005 By Jim Drinkard
WASHINGTON The Bush administration has more than doubled its spending on
outside contracts with public relations firms during the past four years,
according to an analysis of federal procurement data by congressional
Democrats.
The administration spent at least $88 million in fiscal 2004 on contracts
with major public relations firms, the analysis found, compared with $37
million in 2001, Bush's first year in office. In all, the administration
spent $250 million on public relations contracts during its first term,
compared with $128 million spent for President Clinton between 1997 and 2000.
The analysis did not examine what the Clinton administration spent during its
first term. The top-spending agency during the past four years, at $94
million, was the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The biggest
federal public relations contractor in that period was
Ketchum,
with $97 million.
"While not all public relations spending is illegal or inappropriate,
this rapid rise in public relations contracts at a time of growing budget
deficits raises questions about the priorities of the administration,"
said the report by the Democratic staff of the House Government Reform Committee.
The administration's public relations efforts have been under scrutiny since
USA TODAY reported that the Education Department, through a Ketchum contract,
paid $240,000 to conservative commentator Armstrong Williams for helping to
promote Bush's No Child Left Behind program.
Bush said Wednesday that he does not think taxpayer money should be used to
promote administration policies in that way. "I expect my Cabinet
secretaries to make sure that that practice doesn't go forward," he said
at a White House news conference. Of the arrangement with Williams, Bush
said: "We didn't know about this in the White House" and he noted
that there is "new leadership" at the Education Department, where
Secretary Rod Paige has been replaced by Margaret Spellings, a former policy
aide to Bush at the White House. "We will not be paying commentators to
advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two
feet," he said. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that
syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher, an authority on marriage and family
issues, had received two federal contracts totaling $41,500 for writing
brochures, a magazine article and a report and briefing government employees
in support of the president's marriage initiative. That program called for
redirecting welfare funds to pay for premarital counseling and abstinence
education.
While doing the work for the departments of Health and Human Services and
Justice in 2002 and 2003, Gallagher also wrote several columns supporting
Bush's plan. One called the proposal "a no-brainer" because it
could help reduce the divorce rate and cut domestic violence. In a statement,
Gallagher said her work for the government had no influence on what she wrote
in her columns, which reflected her long-held beliefs about marriage.
"It was a mistake on my part not to have disclosed any government
contract," she wrote. "It will not happen again."
Third Columnist paid by Bush Administration
Raw Story | January 28, 2005
According to a report on Salon.com , another columnist
has been paid to promote Bush administration initiatives. Salon claims that
the Department of Health and Human Services paid conservative columnist Mark
McManus $10,000 to back the Bush marriage agenda. The full
registration-restricted article can be found here.
One day after President Bush ordered his Cabinet secretaries to stop hiring
commentators to help promote administration initiatives, and one day after
the second high-profile conservative pundit was found to be on the federal
payroll, a third embarrassing hire has emerged. Salon has confirmed that
Michael McManus, a marriage advocate whose syndicated column, Ethics &
Religion, appears in 50 newspapers, was hired as a subcontractor by the
Department of Health and Human Services to foster a Bush-approved marriage
initiative. McManus championed the plan in his columns without disclosing to
readers he was being paid to help it succeed.
Responding to the latest revelation, Dr. Wade Horn, assistant secretary for
children and families at HHS, announced Thursday that HHS would institute a
new policy that forbids the agency from hiring any outside expert or
consultant who has any working affiliation with the media. I needed to draw
this bright line, Horn tells Salon. The policy is being
implemented and were moving forward.
CLEVEREX
Cleverex occupies more than 4000 square feet of modern office space in
Rockville, Maryland, about 20 miles from downtown Washington, DC. Our
facilities include a state of the art Computer Training Center. This center
is conveniently accessible by metro and other transportation means.
Doing business with Cleverex has never been easier. Cleverex now has numerous
contracting vehicles that can be used by our clients. These vehicles include
8(a) certificate, SDB certificate, GSA Schedule for IT Professional Services
(SIN 132-51), GSA Schedule for Daily/Short-Term Rental (SIN 132-4), and MBE
certificate.
Other Identification Data County Code (3 digit): 031 Congressional District:
08 Metropolitan Statistical Area: 8840 DUNS Number: 049684736 CAGE Code:
1WZY4
Cleverex-Hyperwave handheld partner, Affiliated Computer
Services, Inc. (ACS-human resources subsidiary of Lockheed missles
Computer Data Systems [CDS] wins hefty contract
Washington Business Journal - February 19, 1997
Rockville, Md.-based Computer Data Systems has won a U.S. government contract
with a potential value of $310 million. CDSI Information Technology
Solutions, a unit of CDS, won the contract from the General Services
Administration to provide risk analysis and security-related information
system services.
Where
to find ACS, right hand partner of Cleverex, in the DC, CACI Beltway complex?
ACS Government Solution 1133 15th St NW (202) 775-0924
Washington, DC 20005 map it!
....and ACS Government Solution Group Inc 1133 15th St NW (202) 775-0920
Washington, DC 20005 map it!
ACS GOV SOLUTION
AND---
Affiliated Computer Service Inc. 1133 15th St NW Washington, DC zip code.
Phone: (202) 223-4192
Bomb Scare Downtown
posted at 4:10 PM on August 31, 2005
Breaking News
There is a bomb scare downtown - bystanders say there was a bomb threat called in to 1133 15th Street,
11th floor. DC Police have evacuated the area.
==================
Who
else rents in the same building as ACS?
PRE-ARRANGEMENT INTERMENT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 1133
FIFTEENTH ST NW WASHINGTON, DC 20005-2710 Business League [THEY HANDLE
CORPSES IN LARGE NUMBERS]
... The Washington Post is DIRECTLY ACROSS the street!
Here is an old excerpt of interest re: the WASHINGTON POST
Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington DC 20071, Tel: 202-334-6000.
The whole world knows the Washington Post, or thinks it does. Among
heartland U.S. conservatives, the notion persists that the Post is the
"liberal" establishment's media flagship.
And it's true that the Post has been and remains a loyal servitor of the U.S.
establishment. Katharine Graham, union-busting "Chairman"
(as she styles herself) of the Post's board and possibly the richest woman
alive, is on record as saying that the public is best kept in the dark about
certain goings-on in the official world. (See Deborah Davis's
biography of Graham, indexed in NameBase but successfully suppressed by the
Post's lawyers.)
And a small army of Post editors and contributors, including now-retired Ben
Bradlee and star reporter Bob Woodward, have murky intelligence-world
connections. (See "Silent Coup" by Colodny and Gettlin for the
spooky background to the Post's Watergate glory days.)
Alas, the ruling spirit of the Post's editorial pages might best be
characterized as "Reaganism with a human face." One-note,
soft-issue columnists like Ellen Goodman do appear, but conservatives have a
lock on foreign policy, domestic politics, and the economy.
Trans-Management
Systems Corporation (T-MSC) is a black minority (a few Scottish blacks
born in USA) government funded minority enterprise in Wash DC next door to
NED and the Georgian consulate near Washington Post Building... many ‘agents’ from Britain, Singapore, Hong
Kong, BAe, HHS, NSA in their offices working "for Head Start" children’s program as their cover (by outward
appearances they are the electronic publishing business for HEADSTART memos
and webpages). Some of their staff operated
in the shadows some AI computer networks out in [and near] Langley, a core
hardware matrix of the "surveillance of all e-medical file data on all
people" national system going global.
They had at various times contracts with Cleverex, ICF Consulting,
Kaiser Construction, Dept. of Health & Human Services, PROMIS, Trilogy,
Hyperwave, SAIC, CALIBER CONSULTING,
IBM Research Israel, & NIH, to name a few.
Worldwide Assistance,
1133 15th St., NW, Suite 400, Wash., D.C. 20005. No calls.
Worldwide Assistance at SHRM Global Forum 2/10/2006 | Presentation March 9 on
Medical Evacuations in Iraq and
Afghanistan
Travel Assistance is provided by the
Worldwide Assistance Services, Inc.
(WA), part of the Europ Assistance group the largest and most experienced
travel assistance organization in the world. Multilingual WA Professionals are available to provide help when
needed most, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. WA is the next best thing to
having a friend in more than 200 countries someone with the experience and
resources to help with nearly any type of travel emergency. Your CNA Group
Accident Plan includes the Travel Assistance Benefit, which pays the costs
associated with the following services, when WA arranges them for covered
individuals who are traveling 100 miles or more away from their primary
homes: Medical evacuation/repatriation
Aeronautical Engineers in Washington, District Of Columbia ... 1133 15th
St NW Fl 12 Washington, DC 20005-2710 Phone: (202) 756-5600
They are affiliated with ComSat Drive,
Clarksburg, MD branch and Lockheed,
Gaithersburg operations.
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'NITA' ---- GOVERNMENT WIRELESS
& BROAD BAND
National Telecommunications and
Information Administration [NITA]
PART
of NOAA and U.S. Commerce Dept. satellites !!
Mr. Nick Gumer Rate Case Manager DC-OPC 1133-15th St. NW Suite 500 Washington
DC 20005 http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
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PROMIS, the End Game of Humanity
NED/CIA ... N.E.D. ==>> National Endowment for Democracy | 1101 Fifteenth Street, NW, Suite 700 |
Washington DC, 20005 | 202/293-9072 | Fax 202/223-6042
OUR REAL CIA FRIENDS, FIGHT'N FOR ALL US HOMELANDERS!!!
http://www.ned.org/
CARLYLE GROUP and CARR Real Estate, here is a female player that was/is a speed
pitcher for BOTH!
Marilyn
Lucas, Vice President, Washington, DC
Fund : U.S. Real Estate Industry : Real Estate
Marilyn Lucas is a Vice President focused on U.S. real estate opportunities.
She is based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining
Carlyle Group
... Ms. Lucas was a Senior Associate in the Investments group at CarrAmerica Realty Corporation, where
she was involved in various transactions totaling more than $1.2 billion.
Prior to CarrAmerica, Ms. Lucas was a Vice President in the Capital Markets
group at Combined Properties, Inc., where she managed a loan portfolio of
$450 million. Ms. Lucas received her master's degree in urban planning and
real estate development from The George Washington University, where she was
an Oliver T. Carr Fellow. She
received a B.S. from Brigham Young
University.
HSFIS
Update
By Paolo Angulo Date Published: February 2000 Paolo Angulo was a Team Leader,
Training and Technical Support Division, at Cleverex
--------------------------
HSFIS, the Head Start Family
Information System, is a fully automated, standardized software package
designed by Head Start for Head Start.
It supports a case management information system approach to needs assessment
and service delivery.
Information in the HSFIS system can help Head Start programs determine
eligibility for enrollment, identify family service needs, provide
program-level demographic statistics, and track delivery of services to Head
Start families. HSFIS is also intended to assist Head Start programs in
meeting local and federal reporting requirements. HSFIS is available free of
charge to Head Start programs. The software can be downloaded from the Cleverex technical assistance Web site
(www.cleverex.com ).
IBM
PLM offices in Israel
IBM Israel Yona Riven IBM House 2 Weizman Street Tel-Aviv 61336 Israel Tel:
(972) 3 697 8586 Fax: (972) 3 697 8313 e-mail: friven@il.ibm.com
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MOTOROLA heads up HHS/GAO Comptroller General Committee on Health
http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/citizenshealthpr0228.pdf
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National Endowment for Democracy |
1101 Fifteenth Street, NW, Suite 700 | Washington DC, 20005 | 202/293-9072 |
Fax 202/223-6042
[2] client NED bigshots
... even our workers trade unions are little pubic hairs within the
PROMIS/CIA network....
MOTOROLA -- sending your job to China, you bet! Motorola's Randall L. Johnson of Naperville, Illinois, now a NED executive, has more than 30 years
of experience in corporate benefits. For the last 22 years, he has worked at
Motorola, where he led the design of health care benefits for Motorola
employees, retirees, and their families. He has been Motorola's director of
human resources strategic initiatives since 2000 and has acted as the
company's spokesperson on human resources matters. Johnson has served on the
boards of the ERISA Industry Committee
and the American Benefits Council and is a member of various Business
Roundtable committees. He has also worked with the Human Resources Policy
Association Affordable Coalition, whose goal is to extend coverage to the
uninsured, and has served as an employer advisor to the Wye River Group,
which seeks solutions to extend, improve, and market health care coverage.
Johnson holds a BA degree from the University of Wisconsin.
AFL-CIO
sleeping with NED
AFL-CIO Joseph T. Hansen of
Washington, D.C., joins NED, as a
high executive, and is president of
the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which
represents more than 1.4 million employees in the retail, meat packing,
poultry, food processing, manufacturing, and health-care industries and the
garment, textile, and distillery trades. The union negotiates hundreds of
employment contracts each year involving wages, health care, and pension
benefits. Hansen serves on the AFL-CIO Executive Committee on
Immigrant Workers and is the
president-elect of the Union Network International, a federation of global
unions.
IBM
Israel Yona Riven IBM House 2 Weizman Street
Tel-Aviv 61336 Israel
Tel: (972) 3 697 8586 Fax: (972) 3 697 8313 e-mail: friven@il.ibm.com
IBM central Innovation Centers for
Business - Israel
Our main global IBM center is located in the Azorim High-Tech Industrial
Park, Petach-Tikva. It is 20 minutes from Tel-Aviv and about 30 minutes from
the Ben Gurion International Airport. Israeli developers using our center
have the advantage of being able to get access to a wide range of IBM
hardware, middleware and technologies without having to leave Israel.
WASHINGTON, DC, February 21, 2006 -
ICF
Consulting announced today that the company's Synergy Biomedical subsidiary now
will be known as ICF Biomedical. Synergy Biomedical, a California-based
biomedical consulting firm, was acquired in 2005 by ICF Consulting. An
overview of ICF Biomedical's services can be found on the Web at http://www.icfconsulting.com/biomedical .
ICF will help Medicare and Medicaid, with HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt's
help, to spend nearly a trillion taxpayers' dollars on something
like PROMIS, if not in fact on PROMIS itself. Let's wait and see and study
this very interesting development!
HHS
Secretary Mike Leavitt welcomes military-corporatists contractors one and all, just as
long as they OUTSOURCE us all to HELL, and that is his PROMIS!
Structural Change and Spatial Dynamics of the U.S.
Software Industry Ted Egan, Ph.D. ICF Kaiser International, Inc.
Paper Presented for Sloan Foundation Globalization Workshop Duke University
ICF-CALIBER CONSULTING = ICF Kaiser Consultants, partners in contracts with
Health & Human Services, HHS, Mike Leavitt's golden goose!
ICF Consulting has long worked with
Caliber Consulting and the HHS! They hold in their fists the most
unbreakable contracts with Mike Leavitt and the Medicare trillions of
dollars!
Welfare Peer Technical Assistance
Web Site U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration
for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance
Caliber, an ICF Consulting Company, developed and maintains the Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Web
site. The Web site is designed to facilitate the transfer of information
among states, counties, and localities, and to establish linkages among
organizations serving the needs of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
recipients. The Web site provides a dynamic and interactive environment to
foster communication among network participants and features e-mail alerts
(summary of new Web site content), an interactive Q&A forum, on-line
technical assistance request, on-line event registration, a calendar, site search,
and live chat. In addition, ICF Caliber has provided Web site management and
support, including identifying new relevant content, moderating on-line
discussion forums and requests, and providing programming support for new
content and enhancements.
ICF--as noted by the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community
Initiatives, one-fifth of America's children go hungry or are at risk of
being hungry. Close to two million children have a parent in prison.
Founded in 1969, ICF Consulting began
by assisting minority startup businesses to seek funds from venture
capitalists. In the early 1970s, ICF Consulting began its long history of
supporting federal programs and initiatives. Today, ICF Consulting works
across more than 20 federal departments and agencies including the U.S.
Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),
Health and Human Services (HHS),
Justice (DOJ), and Labor (DOL), and with hundreds of state and local
governments and nonprofit organizations, and especially CALIBER CONSULTING.
We provide technical assistance, training, and conference support that helps
thousands of professionals who work every day to reduce homelessness and
provide safe, affordable housing and economic development opportunities for
the nations€™s poorest citizens.
What
Is PROMIS? scroll down a little further for new
info!
https://www.angelfire.com/blog/promis/
The NIH and CDC and HHS are planning on having all Americans' Medical Records
online via PROMIS --- can anybody stand the wait? In God We Trust is written
on our currency! Why doubt it? God and Country, what could be more reliable,
especially today!
The PHRMA
pharmaceutical industry lobby is 1000% behind this PROMIS all knowing
omnipresent software development.
What Is PROMIS?
The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information
System (PROMIS) initiative establishes a collaborative relationship between
NIH and individual research teams through a cooperative agreement (U01)
mechanism. The broad objectives of the PROMIS network are to: Develop and
test a large bank of items measuring patient-reported outcomes Create a
computerized adaptive testing system that allows for efficient,
psychometrically robust assessment of patient-reported outcomes in clinical
research involving a wide range of chronic diseases Create a publicly
available system that can be added to and modified periodically and that
allows clinical researchers to access a common repository of items and
computerized adaptive tests. The network will collaborate on the collection
of self-reported data from diverse populations of individuals with a variety
of chronic diseases, using agreed-upon methods, modes, and questionnaires.
ICF--
http://www.icfconsulting.com
NIH & PROMIS
http://www.nihpromis.org/
Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement
Information System--Welcome to PROMIS!
In late 2004, a group of outcomes scientists from seven institutions and the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) formed a cooperative network funded under
the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research Initiative to re-engineer the clinical
research enterprise. This initiative the Patient-Reported
Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) aims to revolutionize
the way patient-reported outcome tools are selected and employed in clinical
research and practice evaluation. It will also establish a national resource
for accurate and efficient measurement of patient-reported symptoms and other
health outcomes in clinical practice. As part of the NIH Roadmap, NIH funded
six primary research sites and a statistical coordinating center as the
PROMIS network. PROMIS aims to develop ways to measure patient-reported
symptoms, such as pain and fatigue, and aspects of health-related quality of
life across a wide variety of chronic diseases and conditions. "There is
a pressing need to better quantify clinically
important symptoms and outcomes that are now difficult to measure," says
NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, MD. "Our clinical research communities
would benefit greatly from efficient, consistent, well-validated approaches
to measuring these and other subjective outcomes."
Clinical outcome measures, such as x-rays and lab tests, have minimally
immediate relevance to the day-to-day functioning of patients with chronic
diseases such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and asthma, as well as
chronic pain conditions. Often, the best way patients can judge the
effectiveness of treatments is by perceived changes in symptoms. One main
goal of the PROMIS initiative is to develop a set of publicly available
computerized adaptive tests for the clinical research community.
The NIH Roadmap is a series of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform
the Nations medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research
discoveries from the bench to the bedside. It provides a framework of the
priorities NIH must address to optimize its entire research portfolio, and it
lays out a vision for a more efficient and productive system of medical
research. For more information about the NIH Roadmap, please visit the Web
site at http://www.nihroadmap.nih.gov .
NIH---PROMIS -- HHS
NIH to Develop Network for Quantifying Patient-Reported Outcomes
As part of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services [HHS],
provided approximately $6 million in fiscal year 2004 to fund six primary
research sites and a statistical coordinating center for a Patient-Reported
Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) network. This trans-NIH
initiative, managed by the National Institute of Arthritis and
Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), aims to develop ways to measure
patient-reported symptoms such as pain and fatigue and aspects of
health-related quality of life across a wide variety of chronic diseases and
conditions.
David Cella, Ph.D., of Northwestern University will run the statistical
coordinating center. The principal investigators for the six primary research
sites are: Dagmar Amtmann, Ph.D., of the University of Washington in Seattle;
James Fries, M.D., of Stanford University; Harry Guess, M.D., of University
of North Carolina; Paul Pilkonis, Ph.D., of University of Pittsburgh; Kevin
Schulman, M.D., of Duke University; and Arthur Stone, Ph.D., of the Stony
Brook School of Medicine. These investigators will work together to develop
measurement instruments to meet the needs of clinical researchers across a
wide variety of chronic conditions.
THE FBI FAILURE Regarding PROMIS
Posted: JUN 11, 2005 07:19:29 AM
I am following news about FBIs efforts to modernize their computer-based
information exchange technology for at least 2 years. I have also studied in
depth some previous VCM systems, including the PROMIS software (the one from
the 1980s and a new Promis developed by Inslaw Inc. in Washinton,DC in the 1990s. It seems that a huge corporation (SAIC) had not enough expertize in the VCF and client/server
systems. They turned to INSLAW INC. for help at some time but
political considerations prevented the hiring of Inslaw Inc. for the job, as
a subcontractor. It seems to be a good time now for the FBI IT chief to seek
a cooperation of Inslaw Inc.
in order to develop a workable VCF system, based on the NEW PROMIS software.
David M. Dastych journalist, agency owner David's Media Agency
OUR MAN FROM PROMIS software -- Mike Leavitt, HHS
... We all trusted GW Bush with our armies, our reservists, our Fannie Mae
home loan mortgage funding [nearly 1.5 trillion dollars in debt, most of it
to the Chinese via our Treasury Bonds, our No Child nor Katrina Victim Left
Behind, our 'humming' factories and colleges, and our belovedly efficient
public elementary and high schools, now, the Dept. of Health and Human
Services [HHS] is happy to announce, our wise and noble leader will further
benefit us with electronic data online Promis Software support of our medical
records and prescription data...to go global database with the help of Mike
Leavitt, Secretary of HHS.
In the next 500 days the Secretary Mike Leavitt [HHS manages Medicare, NIH,
CDC, and Head Start] will concentrate on the following for ALL of us in the
USA ...
Creating an integrated PROMIS electronic network of privacy-protected
population electronic data and medical records, genetic information and
medical records to accelerate discoveries that will define an individual’s
risk of disease, response to treatment and likelihood of a side effect.
Building PROMIS interdisciplinary research teams that combine skills and
knowledge from the biological, physical and social sciences to yield
biomedical insights that could not have been achieved by a single-discipline
non-PROMIS approach.
Improving the clinical research network to advance better prevention, early
diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Implementing a comprehensive plan for obesity research that will maximize
collaboration among HHS stakeholders.
In 5,000 days, the Secretary sees a nation in which PROMIS SOFTWARE will...
Medications are safer and more effective because they are chosen based on the
patients personal PROMIS online medical data characteristics. Research
results more quickly benefit people and healthcare needs more quickly become
research leads. Secretary Leavitt's 500-Day Plan
for the PROMIS SOFTWARE Healthcare System
In 5,000 days, the Secretary sees a nation in which ... Nearly all health
records can be linked through an PROMIS interoperable system that 'protects'
privacy as it connects patients, providers and payers resulting in fewer
medical mistakes, less hassle, lower costs and better health, perhaps as well
as our national health care superstructure looks after us today!
Convening a national PROMIS SOFTWARE collaboration to further develop, set
and certify health information technology standards and outcomes for
interoperability, privacy and data exchange.
Realizing the near-term benefits of health information technology in the
focused areas of adverse drug-incident reporting, e-prescribing, lab and
claims-sharing data, clinic registrations and insurance forms.
Creating a drug safety board to monitor and respond to post-market adverse
drug incidents.
Fulfilling the Presidents goals for PROMIS community health center expansion.
Enabling state insurance pools, association health plans and tax credits for
workers unable to afford insurance.
Supporting PROMIS community-based approaches to closing the healthcare gap,
particularly among racial and ethnic minority populations, including American
Indians and Alaska Natives. Pushing for medical liability reform.
WHAT IS PROMIS 2 AND WHAT DOES IT
DO?
PROMIS
2 stands for Prosecutor's Management Information System.
In the late 1970s the legal system of the United States Department of Justice
(DoJ) was comprised of more than thirty semi-autonomous regional U.S.
Attorneys (USA) offices. Each had a computer system to track case management
for prosecutions,
investigations, and civil litigations. The problem was that they used as many
as seven different programming languages. This made the transmission and
sharing of information between offices virtually impossible. The computers in
the USA's office in San Francisco could not read files sent from the USA in New
York.
The genius of Hamilton and Inslaw
was to create a software program that could access files in any number of
databases and programming languages and translate and then unify them into
one consistent file. Promis was the Rosetta stone of computer languages. Inslaw won a $10 million, three-year
contract in March 1982 to install a 16-bit architecture version of
Promis, which the government had the right to use but not the right to modify
without paying license fees to Inslaw, on government computers in the 22
largest U.S. Attorneys' Offices. In April 1983, the second year of the
three-year contract, the government modified Inslaw's contract in order to
obtain delivery of a 32-bit architecture version of Promis, which the
government could not even use without paying license fees. In modifying the
contract, the government promised to pay license fees if it decided to
substitute the 32-bit version for the 16-bit version. In May 1983, the month
following Inslaw's delivery of the 32-bit version of Promis, the government
reneged on its contractual agreement to pay license fees and simultaneously
began to find fault with Inslaw's implementation services as justification
for withholding services payments.
The Justice Department thereafter
withheld $1.77 million in services payments forcing Inslaw to file for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 1985. In January 1988, following
several weeks of trial in 1987, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court issued fully
litigated findings of fact that the Justice Department "took, converted,
stole" the 32-bit version of Promis "through trickery, fraud and
deceit," implemented the 32-bit version of Promis in the 44 largest U.S.
Attorneys Offices, and then tried to force INSLAW out of business in order to incapacitate
INSLAW from litigating the Justice Department's theft of Promis. The Bankruptcy Court imposed a compulsory license on the
44 largest U.S. Attorneys Offices for the perpetual use of the 32-bit version of Promis and
issued a permanent injunction against any further dissemination of Promis by
the government except under license from Inslaw.
Subsequent appeals by the government saw the original rulings overturned on
legal, not factual, grounds. Legal actions in the case continue to this day.
Hamilton told FTW that none of the uses described above had anything to do
with any licensing agreements for the software's use to track terrorists,
intelligence matters or worldwide financial transactions.
The paper tracking of the refinements in Promis after the legal dispute
erupted between INSLAW and the Reagan administration, verifies that at least
one version of Promis was given to Martin Marietta, now Lockheed-Martin,
which is now the nation's second largest defense contractor.
Mr. & Mrs. Vice President, the CHENEYS, and we don't mean Lon
Chaney
Until late 2000, Lynne
Cheney, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney sat on Lockheed's board of
directors. Research conducted
by many investigative journalists has indicated that Promis has spread widely
throughout the defense contractor network. FTW has received multiple reports
of Promis use by companies and institutions like DynCorp, Raytheon,
Boeing, SAIC and the Harvard Endowment as
well as by government agencies such as the Financial Criminal
Enforcement Network (FINCEN) and the
U.S. Treasury.
Here's
how powerful the software is.
Approximately two weeks after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon, the History Channel aired a documentary entitled
"The History of Terrorism." In that documentary, a law enforcement
officer described some of the methods used to track terrorist movements. He
stated that "computers" were able to track such things as credit
card purchases, entry and exits visas, telephone and utility usage etc. It
was implied that these diverse data base files could be integrated into one
unified table. He gave an example that through the use of such a system it
would be possible to determine that if a suspected terrorist entered the
country and was going to hide out, that by monitoring the water and
electrical consumption of all possible suspects in a given cell, it would be
possible to determine where the terrorist was hiding out by seeing whose
utility use increased. Conversely, it would be possible to determine if a
terrorist was on the move if his utility consumption declined or his local
shopping patterns were interrupted. Aren't those "club" cards from
your supermarket handy?
This is but the barest glimpse of what Promis can do. Mated with artificial
intelligence it is capable of analyzing not only an individual's, but also a
community's entire life, in real time. It is also capable of issuing warnings
when irregularities appear and of predicting future movements based upon past
behavior.
In the financial arena Promis is even more formidable. Not only is it capable
of predicting movements in financial markets and tracking trades in real
time. It has been reported, on a number of occasions, to have been used, via
the "back door" to enter secret bank accounts, including accounts
in Switzerland and then remove the money in those accounts without being
traced. Court documents filed in the various INSLAW trials include
documentation of this ability as well as affidavits and declarations from
Israeli intelligence officers and assets.
The one essential weakness of Promis is that it must be physically installed
on a targeted computer for it to be effective. Hence, if Osama bin Laden is
able to penetrate a U.S. Government system it must mean that Promis is there.
FTW has previously reported that the CIA uses Promis to track stock trades in
real time. Thus, as described in FTW stories on insider trading directly
connected to the September 11 attacks, the Agency had the ability to
determine that immediate impending attacks were planned against both American
and United Air Lines. The Israeli Herzliyya Institute for Counterterrorism
was able to publish a detailed accounting of the trades within days of the
attacks and their report underscores the connection between counterterrorist
efforts and the monitoring of financial markets.
[See FTW Vol. IV, No 7 - Oct. 15, 2001] Suspicions of CIA advance knowledge
of the attacks were heightened when FTW disclosed that the current Executive
Director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard was, until 1998, the CEO
of A.B. Brown, the company which handled many of the suspicious trades.
All of these abilities were a given when this writer met with members of the
RCMP National Security Investigation Section in the summer of 2000. Our
meetings were reported in the Toronto Star and are described in the
previously referenced issue of FTW. A key question that lingered after the
meetings with the RCMP was how many versions of the software had the CIA and
the U.S. government given out and might they not have been also using a back
door against "friendly" nations for economic motives to give
advantage to U.S. companies. It was not a question that the RCMP dismissed as
unlikely. In another mind boggling development, on November 10 The Calgary
Sun reported: U.S. police said many of the suspected al-Qaida terrorists were
nabbed through the use of a state-of-the-art computer software program
called Promis. The system interfaces with any database and
can provide information on credit card, banking, pension, tax, criminal and
immigration records. Police can input an alleged terrorist name or credit
card and the software will provide details of the person's movements through
purchases or phone records." After so many years of denials these public
confirmations that Promis is widely in use must come as a relief to Hamilton
who now can walk into court and reopen his case. But they also indicate that
newer generations of PROMIS software have likely replaced the legendary
program that has been connected with so much death, intrigue and mystery.
The FOX story reported that Osama bin Laden once boasted that his youth
"knew the wrinkles of the world's financial markets like the back of
their hands and that his money would never be frozen." He may be right.
And an administration so lost in covering up criminal conduct - no less than
the conduct of the ones which preceded it -- while trying to fight a war at
the same time -- might find itself doubly wounded by the software of Bill
Hamilton and Inslaw.
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In 5,000 days, the HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt sees a
nation in which ... Medicare and Medicaid are modernized to provide
high-quality health care in a financially sustainable way. The beneficiaries
of Medicare and Medicaid are cost-conscious consumers with expanded choices
of plans and treatments.
Creating workable methods of rewarding health providers for positive
outcomes. Positioning HHS at the forefront of the health information PROMIS
technology interoperability movement.
SAIC -- Science Applications International Corp. 10260
Campus Point Drive -- ZOG & PROMIS San
Diego, CA 92121 Phone: (858) 826-6000 Fax: (800) 430-7629 http://www.saic.com
SAIC Background
Science
Applications International Corp., or SAIC
as it is commonly known, is owned by its 40,000 or so employees. It is the
country's largest employee-owned research and engineering company, chalking
up revenue of $5.9 billion in 2002.
SAIC's largest customer by far is the U.S. government, which accounts for 69
percent of its business, according to its SEC filings. The company also
derives a sizeable chunk of its revenue from state, local and foreign
governments.
The company has worked on a large number of high-profile government projects.
SAIC had engineers on the ground in New York the day after the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, deploying point-to-point
microwave systems to restore communications to government offices.
The company also built the security command center for the 2002 Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City. Other high-profile projects SAIC has been
involved in include the 1993 World Trade Center bombing investigation, the
cleanups after the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster and the Exxon Valdez
oil spill in Alaska, the first Gulf War, and space missions including the
Voyager mission to Mars and the Hubble Space Telescope.
A lower profile, but potentially lucrative, project the company is working on
for the Army is called the Future Combat Systems program. SAIC teamed up with
Boeing to win the right to be lead system integrator on that project, which
could have a total value of $4 billion. The program is supposed to completely
retool and transform the entire Army to better respond to future threats,
including everything from weapons systems to troop training.
SAIC recently had a management change. Founder and chairman Robert Beyster,
who had run the company since its beginning in 1969, announced plans to
retire in 2004. In October 2003, Kenneth
Dahlberg, a vice president at General Dynamics and now head of SAIC [he was
also a major player in the WATERGATE SCANDAL], joined the company as CEO. There has also been
speculation that, following Beyster's retirement, the company might go
public.
Iraq contracts
Since February 2003, SAIC has been in charge of the Iraqi
Reconstruction and Development Council, a Pentagon-sanctioned group made up
of Iraqis that is effectively functioning as the country's temporary
government. The senior members of IRDC hold positions at each of 23 Iraqi
ministries, where they work closely with U.S. and British officials,
including L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority. The
Council's official task is to rebuild the structures of a government that are
expected to eventually be handed over to an independent Iraqi authority.
Members of the IRDC are officially employed by SAIC.
Another Pentagon contract calls for SAIC to, in effect,
rebuild Iraq's mass media, including television stations, radio stations and
newspapers. SAIC runs the "Voice of the New Iraq," the radio
station established in April 2003 at Umm Qasr that is funded by the U.S.
government.
Just how the company is going about the task of rebuilding Iraq's media and
the overall cost remains a mystery, however. The Pentagon has steadfastly
refused to release any specific information on SAIC's media reconstruction
work, which has been dubbed the Iraqi Media Network. What little information
that has leaked out about the SAIC effort has come mainly from disgruntled
employees and press freedom advocates, who have charged the company has
bungled the job badly. One report said SAIC had ordered equipment that was
incompatible with existing systems in Iraq.
SAIC, which appears to have little experience in mass media, was also
reported to have been caught flat-footed on programming for the reconstructed
network. Its initial solution was to enlist Voice of America, the foreign
language broadcasting service of the U.S. government, to patch together a
short nightly news show made up entirely of dubbed stories from U.S.
television network news shows. There have also been widespread complaints
from press freedom organizations about the SAIC effort, including charges of
military censorship and cronyism, and of embedded agents in the Dept. of
Health & Human Services [HHS--Mike Leavitt].
SAIC has been awarded seven contracts by the Defense Department to provide
experts and advisers on development of representative government in Iraq;
restore and upgrade the country's broadcast media; and provide a group of Iraqi
expatriates to assist coalition officials working in the country.
The value of the contracts, which were obtained by the Center for Public
Integrity under the Freedom of Information Act, was blacked out in copies
provided by the Defense Department. A Pentagon FOIA officer said keeping the
information secret "was an appropriate way to avoid substantial
competitive harm to the contractor" and was "due to the sensitive
nature of the Iraqi contracts." SAIC officials referred all media calls
to the Pentagon. The value of the SAIC media contract in Iraq is $38 million
for the current calendar year and could be worth an additional $90 million
next year, according to a congressional source. The value of SAIC's six other
contracts in Iraq could not be determined. Government ties David Kay, the
former U.N. weapons inspector who was hired by the CIA to track down weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq, is a former vice president of SAIC. Kay left
SAIC, where he oversaw homeland security and counterterrorism work, in
October 2002.
Christopher "Ryan" Henry left a senior position at SAIC in February
2003 to become principal deputy undersecretary of Defense for policy. In that
role, Henry provides advice and assistance to Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon officials on national security policy,
military strategy and defense policy. At SAIC, he was vice president for
strategic assessment and development. Executive vice president for Federal
Business and director Duane P. Andrews served as assistant secretary of
Defense from 1989 to 1993, when he joined SAIC.
From October 2001 to July 2002, board member W.A. Downing served as deputy
assistant director for international counter-terrorism initiatives on the
National Security Council, where he advised President Bush on terrorism and
homeland security issues. Downing retired from the United States Army with
the rank of general in 1996 and joined SAIC as a part-time employee in March
of that year as an adviser on a wide variety of matters, including the company's
long-term strategy for domestic and international business development.
Bobby Ray Inman resigned from SAIC's
board
in October 2003 after reaching the company's mandatory retirement age of 72.
He had served on the board since 1982, when he retired as an admiral in the
U.S. Navy. While on active duty, Inman served as director of the National
Security Agency and deputy director of Central Intelligence. President
Clinton nominated Inman to be defense secretary in December 1993, but Inman
later withdrew his name from consideration for the post.
After retiring from the Navy, Inman was chairman and chief executive officer
of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation in Austin, Texas,
for four years and chairman, president, and chief executive officer of
Westmark Systems Inc., a privately owned electronics industry holding
company, for three years. Inman also served as chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1987 through 1990. His primary activity since
1990 has been investing in start-up technology companies, where he is a
managing partner with Gefinor Ventures. He is also a member of the board of
directors of
Fluor
(which has contracts in Iraq and
Afghanistan), Massey Energy Company, SBC Communications and Temple Inland.
From 1993 to 1997, board member Anita K. Jones was director of Defense
Research and Engineering for the Pentagon.
FBI's Trilogy Program Draws Senate
Ire
By Roy Mark
January 29, 2003: With cost overruns already at 50 percent, Senate
Appropriations Committee chairman calls data mining project 'gold-plated
disaster.' A projected 50 percent cost overrun in the FBI's IT infrastructure
upgrade program has prompted the Senate Appropriations Committee to order the
FBI to try again in its 2003 budget request. The $458 million project, known
as Trilogy, was criticized last month by the Department of Justice's
inspector general for its sharply rising costs and the management of the
program.
Trilogy, which is being designed by Dyncorp of Reston, Va., and San
Diego-based SAIC, Science Applications International , is expected to allow
FBI agents to receive multi-media case files at their desks and to link
various law enforcement agency databases. Once completed, the FBI hopes to
detect patterns in the large volume of information it collects. According to
FBI, more than half of the information the agency currently collects is not
scanned.
The cost overruns, however, have not impressed Congress. Sen. Judd Gregg
(R.-N.H.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has called the
program a "disaster," adding "Programs such as Trilogy do not
need more money. What they need is more management."
Further reflecting Congress' disenchantment with the FBI's technology
efforts, the Senate last week slashed $100 million in funding to FBI
high-tech projects for 2003. The cuts must still be reconciled with the House
budget efforts.
"FBI software and hardware contracts for Trilogy have essentially become
gold-plated. The cost is soaring. The schedule is out of control," Gregg
recently said in a floor debate.
After the FBI reported it had used all of a $100 million supplemental fund
for Trilogy, a Senate appropriation report filed earlier this month on the
cost overruns stated, "This is not a surprise. The attempt to make up
for 20 years of neglect in two frenzied years of spending was destined to
fail. The FBI chose to squander this reserve. So when the funds are needed,
none are available."
L-3 Communications, formerly a large Canadian company that made Canadians
proud [they did lots of outsourcing work for our NASA shuttles and some NSA
contract work--the poor Canadians sadly sold themselves out and divested this
national gem to U.S. military-corporatist contractors]
L3, now headquartered in New York
City, removed from Toronto, its former HQ
L-3
Communications is a leading
provider of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems,
secure communications systems, aircraft modernization, training and
government services. The company is a leading merchant supplier of a broad
array of high technology products, including guidance and navigation,
sensors, scanners, fuses, data links, propulsion systems, simulators,
avionics, electro optics, satellite communications, electrical power
equipment, encryption, signal intelligence, antennas and microwave
components. L-3 also supports a variety of Homeland Security initiatives with
products and services. Its customers include the Department of Defense,
Department of Homeland Security, selected U.S. Government intelligence
agencies and aerospace prime contractors.
Frank C. Lanza Chairman and CEO
VINCE FOSTER & PROMIS
Vince Foster, the NSA, and Banking
Transactions Spying, Part XXVII by J. Orlin Grabbe
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Ross Perot made many of his millions by selling computer services to the
government. In 1969 his company EDS contracted with the California State
Physicians Service, the state MEDICAID processing agent, to take over some of
their computer processing responsibilities.
The contract needed the approval of Earl Braine, a combat physician who
served in a unit providing air support for Operation Phoenix and who then
became health and welfare secretary [the former name of HHS, Health &
Human Services, the name today and headed by Mike Leavitt and Wade Horn, two
neocons], in the cabinet of California Governor Ronald Reagan, in which
capacity Braine later authored a couple of papers (Position paper on
Department of Health reorganization and related health boards and
commissions, Sacramento, 1973; California's Med-Cal copayment experiment,
with Stephen F. Gibbons, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1974). After leaving this
post to run for the Senate against Alan Cranston, and losing, Braine became
President of a high-tech company called Xonics, which was accused by the SEC
of fraud and manipulating the price of its stock. Braine left Xonics in
October 1977 without being charged with any wrongdoing, or--unlike four other
Xonics officers--being required to sign an SEC consent decree. A number of
former Xonics officers went on to form a company called Hadron.
In 1980 Briane formed a company called Biotech Capital Corp (renamed
Infotechnology in 1987), one of whose investors was Ed Meese's wife Ursula,
who got a loan to buy Biotech stock from Meese advisor Edwin Thomas. Briane also
acquired control of a Canadian company called Clinical Sciences.
Briane at some point worked on projects with Michael Riconosciuto and Robert
Booth Nichols at the Cabazon Indian Reservation, projects administered
"jointly" by the Wackenhut Corporation. On September 10, 1981, for
example, Briane was seen by the Riverside Sheriff's Department at a weapons
demonstration at Lake Cauchilla gun range at Indio, CA.
After the Reagan administration took office, Briane was given a White House
post related to health-care issues under Ed Meese. Briane is alleged to have
said to Meese, "I'm going to be the Ross Perot of the Reagan
administration, and you can be the Earl Briane." If this conversation
actually took place, it apparently meant that Briane intended to make money
by selling software to the U.S. government--purchases which Ed Meese would be
in a position to approve.
PROMIS
One of the ways Briane apparently fulfilled this dream was by marketing the
PROMIS software, created and modified by contract between the U.S. Department
of Justice and Inslaw, Inc.--a Washington, D.C. based software firm. At the
time, Brian's company Biotech Capital Corp (later renamed Infotechnology)
controlled Hadron, which attempted a buyout of Inslaw. When Brian was not
able to obtain property rights to the software this way, Inslaw was driven
into bankruptcy and the software stolen by "trickery, deceit, and
fraud", according to federal bankruptcy Judge George Bason. Brian had
perhaps seen the potential for intelligence agency use of this type of
software from his days in Vietnam in connection with Operation Phoenix.
Operation Phoenix (run by the CIA's William Colby) used computers to track
political enemies, many of which were targeted for assassination.
At first Briane marketed the PROMIS software to intelligence organizations,
including Israel and Iraq (the latter deal facilitated by arms dealer Carlos
Cardoen). In February 1983 Brian sent Rafi Eitan over to the Inslaw offices
for a demonstration of the PROMIS software. Rafi Eitan was to later head up
LAKAM, Israel's scientific and technological espionage agency which oversaw
the Jonathan Pollard spying operation.
Later, in Brazil, Brian acquired the nickname "Cash", allegedly
based on a perception of his mercenary approach to life. In offering to sell
the software to the Brazilian government, Brian wasn't entirely freelancing.
During an official meeting Brian placed a phone call to the U.S. to obtain
the approval of Ed Meese. More information on the Brazilian sale may be found
in a redacted part of the Bua report. An affidavit on the matter was even
signed by Figueiredo, the Brazilian president.
Judge Bua in his report ignored Justice Department complicity in the theft of
the PROMIS software and accepted Brian's testimony at face value, saying he
found him a trustworthy fellow. Brian is now under indictment in California,
while the allegedly corrupt Judge Bua is plea bargaining with prosecutors.
The California indictment of Earl W. Brian was announced in September 1995.
The indictment concerns tens of millions of dollars of fraudulent lease
transactions, while Earl Brian was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
Officer of three separate companies: Infotechology, Financial News Network
(FNN), and United Press International (UPI). The indictment claims that Brian
and his co-conspirators engaged in some trick financing (worthy of Billy Sol
Estes). In 1988 FNN (now CNBC) was losing money, so to hide that fact from
its lending banks and from the investing public, Brian generated some extra
"income" through false charges. First FNN charged UPI $29 million
to use a technology called the "vertical blanking interval". Next
FNN charged another Infotechnology- related company called Institutional
Research Network (IRN) millions of dollars (above actual costs) for a news
product called FNN:PRO. Payments for these charges
topped up FNN's income nicely.
But since neither UPI nor IRN had money to pay for these charges, the money
had to come from somewhere else. The money came from leasing and finance
companies, who bought broadcast and communications equipment from two
affiliates of FNN, Telecommunications Industries and Micro Research
Industries. (The equipment either did not exist or was sold to more than one
leasing company at the same time, or was previously sold to customers of the
FNN subsidiary Data Broadcasting Company.) The purchase price of the non-
existent equipment was paid to FNN, who then made lease payments to the
leasing and finance companies.
The indictment says that Brian also siphoned off $300,000 of the lease money
to himself, by submitting a "bill" to FNN from another company he
controlled, called Alton, Inc.
If you steal from a thief, can he holler 'Cop!'? The indictment says one of
the co-conspirators, a fellow named Bolen, caused a fraudulent $1 million to
be paid to the offshore bank account of a company called Centerpoint, Inc.,
as a payment to himself.
One of the more interesting aspects of the Earl Brian indictment is the date:
June 1994. The indictment was sat on for more than a year, while an
incredibly corrupt Justice Department prepared its own rebuttal to Inslaw's
Rebuttal to the Bua Report.
The Justice Department is never in any rush when it's preoccupied with
covering up its own crimes.
WHY NEWT GINGRICH IS A PUNK ASS
Despite that Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank virtually spawned the whole
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac global swindle in home mortgage loans that drained the
US Treasury --as it borrowed more and more trillions from the better financed
CHINESE -- Robert Zoeller and Newt Gingrich administrated tons of the
dealings of Fannie Mae, so this opaque and non-transparent huge sucking sound
of U.S. citizens capital in the Treasury being flushed to the South China
Sea, was a bi-partisan cooperation, not a partisan Democrats monorail to
Hell.
My report on Newt Gingrich (to aid Charles Hayes in his preparation for their
meeting) had focused on motivational issues--what makes Newt Gingrich tick.
Like the time when, as a graduate student in history at Tulane University in
New Orleans, Gingrich served as the spokesman for a student activist group
which was condemning censorship of the campus newspaper, the Hullaballoo.
(The administration had judged as obscene nude photos which the group
considered artwork.) But I had also reported on one of Gingrich's
little-known financial relationships--one that had apparently been missed by
the CIA or, perhaps, the Fifth Column.
Hayes spent two days getting ready for his meeting with Gingrich. Gingrich
had done his homework equally well, apparently obtaining a good bit of
information from Hayes' highly-classified file at the CIA. "He reminded
me of things I had forgotten myself," Hayes said.
They came to an agreement, of sorts. "Can you trust Gingrich," I
asked Hayes. I had a few doubts, myself, but it wasn't my problem.
"We'll see," Hayes said. "I told him the agreement was over
the first time he lied to me."
Among other things, it was agreed that the Fifth Column would become a
resource to Kenneth Starr.
Gingrich would act as intermediary. (This arrangement lasted until Hayes and
Starr eventually established their own direct
relationship. Shortly after the agreement with Gingrich, the Fifth Column
came across a $286,000 wire transfer to the bank account of Lisa Foster, the
wife of Vince Foster, that had been made four days
prior to Vince Foster's death.
The transfer--make out of a bank account at Mellon bank--had been effected by Sheila Foster Anthony, Vince Foster's sister
and the wife of Beryl Anthony. Sheila Anthony was at the time Assistant
Attorney General for Legislative Affairs. The records of the payment were
turned over to Gingrich, who then turned them over to Starr.) Starr was
having his problems at the time. He wasn't able to find the financial and
other records he needed for his investigation. And, as he soon enough
discovered, some of the FBI agents assigned to him were running their own
agenda, by intimidating certain witnesses or generating prejudicial reports
about them to influence the Special Prosecutor's use of their testimony. (By
a curious coincidence, the wire transfer to Lisa Foster was made on July 16,
1993, the same day Bill Clinton had a two-hour meeting with Louis
Freeh, preparatory to naming him FBI Director the following week.)
Gingrich agreed to a number of things, for his part. He agreed to reopen the
investigation into the death of Vince Foster. (Shortly thereafter, Gingrich ridiculed
the Foster suicide conjecture, and ordered William Clinger, Chairman of the
House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, to reopen the investigation
into the circumstances of Foster's death. The Committee, however, later
deferred to the Starr investigation into the same topic. Gingrich's
statements were followed by a reading of evidence against the Foster suicide
conjecture on the House floor by Dan Burton of Indiana. Burton soon will be
replacing William Clinger as Chairman of the House Government Committee.)
And Gingrich agreed to write a letter to Alan Greenspan on certain
money-laundering matters-- including dealing with the fact that a
highly-placed official in the Federal Reserve was part of the national
money-laundering network. (Gingrich sent a six-page letter to Greenspan.
Although I was somewhat familiar with the information in the letter, I
attempted to get a copy directly from either Greenspan or Gingrich, but
failed to do so. Gingrich explained his denial that the letter existed with
the statement that "half of politics is lying,
anyway." Someone later relayed an account of a meeting he had with
Gingrich, in Gingrich's office. Gingrich said he had "never heard of
Orlin Grabbe." After a while, this individual noticed a copy of my textbook
on international finance on Gingrich's bookshelf. "I guess, with you
being a politician, people send you a lot of books that you don't get time to
read," the person said to Gingrich. "I bought every one of these
books myself, with my own money," Gingrich supposedly declared,
"and I've read them all." Well, perhaps Gingrich has a touch of
Alzheimer's.)
Gingrich had flown into Somerset, KY, by helicopter, landing near the former
Holiday Inn. Afterward, Hayes and I always referred to Gingrich as
"Helicopter Boy" in conversation.
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ACS --
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Transitioning
to Lockheed
News Item: BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 25,
2003 - Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) announced the closing of its acquisition of
the federal government information technology businesses of Affiliated
Computer Services Inc. (ACS), business partner of Cleverex. The transaction
also includes the sale of Lockheed Martin' s
commercial IT units to ACS. After considering both the acquisition and
divestiture, the transaction is expected to increase 2004 sales by
approximately $400 million and be immediately accretive to earnings.
Following a period of transition, the company expects integration of the new
businesses to be completed by the second quarter of 2004.
Concurrently, with the closing of the transaction, Lockheed Martin has
changed the name of its Technology Services business area to
"Information & Technology Services" to better reflect the full
scope of its business activities.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 130,000 people
worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development,
manufacture and integration of advanced MILITARY-CORPORATIST technology
systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2002 sales of $26.6
billion.
WADE HORN OF HEALTH & HUMAN
SERVICES, HHS, Agency which controls MEDICAID and MEDICARE Bush Orders an End
to Hiring Columnists
Associated Press | January 26, 2005
By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Wednesday ordered his Cabinet secretaries
not to hire columnists to promote their agendas after disclosure that a
second writer was paid to tout an administration initiative. The president
said he expects his agency heads will ``make sure that that practice doesn't
go forward.''
``All our Cabinet secretaries must realize that we will not be paying
commentators to advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on
its own two feet,'' Bush said at a news conference.
Bush's remarks came a day after syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher
apologized to readers for not disclosing a $21,500 contract with the Health
and Human Services Department to help create materials promoting the agency's
$300 million initiative to encourage marriage.
Bush also said the White House had been unaware that the Education Department
paid commentator and columnist Armstrong Williams $240,000 to plug its
policies. That contract came to light two weeks ago. Bush said there ``needs
to be a nice independent relationship between the White House and the press,
the administration and the press.''
And he noted that ``we have new leadership going into the Department of
Education.''
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings started this week, replacing
first-term Education Secretary Rod Paige. Paige had ordered an investigation
into whether Williams should have disclosed the deal to produce television
and radio ads promoting the No Child Left Behind Act.
Williams has apologized, calling it a mistake in judgment to not disclose
that he was being paid by the administration but insisting he broke no laws.
Gallagher apologized to readers in her column Tuesday, saying that she was
not paid to promote marriage but ``to produce particular research and writing
products'' - articles, brochures, presentations. ``My lifelong experience in
marriage research, public education and advocacy is the reason HHS hired
me,'' she wrote.
She said it never occurred to her to tell readers about her work for the
government. ``I should have disclosed a government contract when I later
wrote about the Bush marriage initiative. I would have, if I had remembered
it. My apologies to my readers.'' In 2002, Gallagher contributed to an essay
promoting marriage that appeared in Crisis magazine under the byline of Wade
Horn, HHS assistant secretary for children and families.
Horn said Wednesday Gallagher was never paid to promote the president's
marriage initiative in her own columns.
``We hired her because of her expertise in the area of marriage research in
order to draw upon that expertise to help us develop materials related to
healthy marriage,'' he said, adding that Gallagher drafted brochures and
helped draft the article published under his name.
``At no time was she paid to go outside of HHS and promote the president's
healthy marriage initiative,'' he said. ``The federal government hires
experts all of the time. There's nothing insidious about that.'' Gallagher
got another $20,000 - part of which was approved while President Clinton was
still in office - from a private organization called the National Fatherhood
Initiative, using money from a Justice Department grant. For that 2001 grant,
she wrote a report on the institution of marriage, entitled ``Can Government
Strengthen Marriage?''
On Wednesday a report released by the House Committee on Government Reform
looked into the use of taxpayer dollars to fund public relations campaigns. The
Bush administration spent a record $88 million on government-funded public
relations contracts in 2004 - a 128 percent increase over 2000, according to
the report prepared for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and
other Democrats.
Democratic Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Frank Lautenberg of New
Jersey urged the investigative arm of Congress, the General Accountability
Office, to expand its investigation of the Education Department's contract
with Williams to include Health and Human Services and Gallagher.
Gallagher has testified twice before the Judiciary Committee in support of a
constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage without disclosing her contract
with the government, the senators said in a letter to the U.S. Comptroller
General David Walker.
``This abuse by HHS is just another in a long list of similar incidents of
paid policy advocates supporting Bush Administration policies,'' the senators
wrote.
2000-2005, PROMIS has been spreading widely throughout the defense contractor
network & DHS & CDC & NIH & core banking/financial databases
too....
2005 --- In the not so
distant future, CDC working with HHS & DHS will
promote a pandemic event so that they can vaccinate most of humanity and at
the same time inject them with nanobots linked to AI which tracks them and stores all
their medical and credit histories & geographic tracking for central
control agencies to know their every thought and action! FOR YOUR SAFETY!
Thank you!
Z O G
A little footnote on Mr. & Mrs. Vice President, the CHENEYS:
Until
late 2000, Lynne Cheney, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney sat on
Lockheed's board of directors. Research conducted by many investigative
journalists has indicated that PROMIS has spread widely throughout the defense
contractor network. FTW has received multiple reports of Promis use by
companies and institutions like DynCorp, Raytheon, Boeing, SAIC and the
Harvard Endowment as well as by government agencies such as the Financial
Criminal Enforcement Network (FINCEN) and the U.S. Treasury.
Who finances all these federal and
military subcontractors skullduggeries and swindles? FFB Bank,
that is who! [the Federal Financing Bank] .... slush fund in the trillions of buckaroos for
Exim Bank guaranteed loans to the military hardware mafia, in and around the
Pentagon ... it is the 'Made in USA' brand name now! That is why so many of
us are unemployed and, even worse, OUTSOURCED! [the money screaming from the
golden birth canal of FFB Bank comes directly from the US Treasury, with
absolutely NO checks nor balances! click here now to read the legislation! It
will blow your mind ... and also your bank account!
PROMIS This website threads
together the ties between HHS [Dept. of Health & Human Services, PROMIS,
Trilogy, Hyperwave, SAIC, ICF-Kaiser Consultants, Cleverex, Caliber Consulting, IBM Research
Israel, NIH, and your neighborhood NeoCon arms dealers]
Problem-Oriented Medical Information System From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
see also, SAIC, Science Applications International Corp., 10260 Campus Point
Drive San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: (858) 826-6000 Fax: (800) 430-7629
http://www.saic.com
PROMIS [Patient-Reported Outcomes
Measurement Information System]
https://www.angelfire.com/blog/promis/
The
NIH and CDC and HHS are planning on having all Americans' Medical Records
online via PROMIS --- can anybody stand the wait? In God We Trust is written
on our currency! Why doubt it? God and Country, what could be more reliable,
especially today!
The PHRMA pharmaceutical
industry lobby is 1000% behind this PROMIS all knowing omnipresent software
development....read here about Cleverex partner ACS $100.5 million contract
with Glaxo Smith Kline!
ICF was formerly Kaiser Engineering [Steel] and have been paid
handsomely some years ago for U.S. SEAPORTS SECURITY https://web.archive.org/web/20060821183802/http://www.icfi.com/markets/environment/water-security.aspanalysis!
https://web.archive.org/web/20060315203424/http://www.icfconsulting.com/Publications/doc_files/Perspectives-port-security-F03.pdf
Synergy Biomedical Name Changes to ICF Biomedical
New Identity for ICF Consulting Subsidiary Builds on Strength and Recognition
of Parent Company
Read here how Ft. Detrick
Maryland is swarming with FDA, NIH, US Army bioterrorism research labs, and
Health and Human Services [HHS], is in on the game too, aided by their ICF
Kaiser software!
Just a few other IBM global centers far far more important than
the "poodle" centers dismissively left here in our HOMELAND
IBM PLM offices in
Israel
IBM Asia Pacific
IBM Bangalore, India iSeries, OpenPower, pSeries, xSeries
IBM Seoul, Korea iSeries, OpenPower, pSeries, zSeries
IBM Shanghai, China OpenPower, pSeries, xSeries
Remember PROMIS? It was developed in the early
1990s
to be used by federal prosecutors to
manage cases, but the creators of the software claim that the federal government
stole it from them and turned it into software to monitor spies and
enemies. A journalist investigating the case died under mysterious
circumstances.
NORMAN:
First of all you sell to front companies like this
company Systematics in Arkansas, now called Alltel Information
Services. They had another company called Boston Systematics, an affiliate
based in Israel mainly. There
is Robert Maxwell, the UK publisher, who is fronting this stuff. There
are a whole bunch of people fronting this.
QUINN:
Wait a minute, Robert Maxwell -- isn't he dead?
NORMAN:
Yeah, he is now.
QUINN: Didn't
he have an unfortunate accident?
HIDDEN
COSTS, MISUSED ASSETS, Problems galore with HEAD
START Program
https://freopp.org/improving-the-value-of-head-start-for-working-parents-739472566ec1
Since 1965, the United States has
provided free preschool and child care to low-income families through the
Head Start program, which is managed by the Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS). In FY 2018, the United States provided in $9.1 billion
funding for Head Start. The program’s enrollment was 887,125, which amounts
to an annual per-enrolled cost of more than $10,000.
A long-anticipated national
evaluation (mandated by Congress in the 1990s and released by HHS in 2012)
found that Head Start did not provide lasting benefits to participating
children compared to their peers who did not attend Head Start. A key finding
of the report was that children who attended Head Start actually spent less
time in care than their peers who did not enroll but receive non-parental
care, a difference of four to five hours per week.
The disappointing national evaluation
led liberals and conservatives to propose significant reforms.
Liberals have favored expanding the
program to provide more hours of care for enrolled children. The Obama
Administration pushed to require Head Start providers to offer at least 1,020
hours of care per year, rather than the current minimum of 448 hours, in part
to give working parents more “affordable, high quality child care.” But HHS
recently canceled these reforms, warning that mandating increased minimum
hours would require reducing the number of children enrolled.
Conservatives have proposed reforming
Head Start to offer greater choice. Dr. Lindsey Burke, the lead education expert
at the conservative Heritage Foundation, has called for ending the program,
but offered expanded choice as a compromise option: “at a minimum, if the
federal government continues to fund child care, states should be allowed to
make their Head Start dollars portable, following children to any preschool
provider of their parents’ choice.”
A review of state-by-state child care
and preschool costs shows that the Left and Right’s goals are actually
complementary.
Maintaining the Head Start program
but allowing parents’ greater options to choose among preschool and child
care providers would significantly improve the program’s value. In 37 states,
the per-child cost of the Head Start program is more than the average cost of
full-time child care for a 4-year-old. (See Table 1.) Moreover,
state-operated public preschool programs provide more hours of care at a
lower per-child cost than Head Start in more than a dozen states.
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