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Tech Firms
ICE also contracts with technology and software companies, including Silicon Valley firms and defense contractors, for tools to help track, arrest and monitor those suspected of violating immigration laws.
Palantir Technologies, a data analytics firm, has never reported a profit since its founding in 2003. The company has come to rely on lucrative, long-lasting contracts with government agencies, including ICE, seeking to make use of its tools.
Since 2014, Palantir has received just under $100 million in ICE funding for both case management software and a customized data analytics tool called FALCON-SA, which helps ICE track and arrest individuals suspected of being in the country illegally.
Palantir’s largest contract — $53 million to provide software services — was awarded in 2014 during the height of the Central American refugee crisis and is ongoing through 2019. The company’s most recent ICE contract was $250,000 for the purchase of another software program called Gotham.  
The bulk of Palantir’s political spending can be attributed to Peter Thiel, the group’s founder, who contributed about $1.3 million in 2016 to groups supporting Trump’s election and $100,000 to the president’s inauguration.Thiel’s support for the president during the campaign ultimately landed him a spot on Trump’s transition team.Palantir is also heavily invested in the D.C. influence culture through its lobbying activities, which peaked last year at $1.4 million. The majority of the money was directed toward securing government contracts. Thiel and Palantir’s lobbying appears to have paid dividends beyond the contracts awarded by ICE.
The company also won an $876 million defense contract this year.
Microsoft, another tech giant fulfilling contracts for ICE, has recently encountered backlash from employees over its relationship with the controversial agency. In an open letter first published by The New York Times, more than 100 employees argued that the contracting work was a “clear abdication of ethical responsibilities.”
Other major ICE contractors include big names in defense contracting.
Booz Allen Hamilton has been a perennial ICE contractor, having received contracts to support the Law Enforcement Systems and Analysis division, which is the main data analysis office ensuring the agency’s detainee processing and enforcement systems are working efficiently....<div>
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Booz Allen Hamilton is an international consultancy firm. It is based in McLean, Virginia.they were involved in Themis/HBGary/Palantir?

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Booz_Allen_Hamilton#Contract_services">1 Contract services</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Booz_Allen_Hamilton#Personnel">2 Personnel</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Booz_Allen_Hamilton#Contact_details">3 Contact details</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Booz_Allen_Hamilton#SourceWatch_resources">4 SourceWatch resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Booz_Allen_Hamilton#External_links">5 External links</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Booz_Allen_Hamilton#References">5.1 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Booz_Allen_Hamilton#Articles">5.2 Articles</a></li>

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<h2>Contract services</h2>

Federal agencies have at their disposal convenient and easy-to-use mechanisms for obtaining a wide variety of management and technology services. Through the Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs), General Service Administration Federal Supply Schedules (FSSs), Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs), and Information Analysis Centers (IACs) that Booz-Allen has been awarded, agencies have rapid access to a wide range of services. Depending on your agency needs, we can offer:

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<li>Broad-based Engineering, Management, Organizational, Information Technology, or Telecommunications consulting services</li>

<li>Targeted services within these broad areas</li>

<li>Specialized Environmental or Information Security services among others.</li>

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<h2>Personnel</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ralph_W._Shrader" title="Ralph W. Shrader">Ralph W. Shrader</a> - Chairman and CEO</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=R.James_Woolsey,Jr." title="R. James Woolsey, Jr.">R. James Woolsey, Jr.</a> - Vice President (however not on BAH web site)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dennis_O._Doughty&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dennis O. Doughty (page does not exist)">Dennis O. Doughty</a> - Worldwide Technology Business President</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Daniel_C._Lewis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel C. Lewis (page does not exist)">Daniel C. Lewis</a> - Worldwide Commerical Business President</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_J._Gerencser&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark J. Gerencser (page does not exist)">Mark J. Gerencser</a> - Senior Vice President (co-leads Global Strategic Security Practice)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Keith_Oliver&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Keith Oliver (page does not exist)">Keith Oliver</a> - Senior Vice President</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bruce_Pasternack" title="Bruce Pasternack">Bruce Pasternack</a> - Senior Vice President</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Heckmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Heckmann (page does not exist)">Peter Heckmann</a> - Vice President</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mike_McConnell" title="Mike McConnell">Mike McConnell</a> - Vice President, former director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NSA" title="NSA" class="mw-redirect">NSA</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dermot_Shorten&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dermot Shorten (page does not exist)">Dermot Shorten</a> - Vice President</li>

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<h2>Contact details</h2>

Corporate Headquarters:

8283 Greensboro Drive,

McLean, Virginia 22102

Telephone: 703 902-5000

Website: <a href="http://www.boozallen.com/" class="external free" title="http://www.boozallen.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.boozallen.com/</a>

<h2>SourceWatch resources</h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=R.James_Woolsey,Jr." title="R. James Woolsey, Jr.">R. James Woolsey, Jr.</a></li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

<h3>References</h3>

<h3>Articles</h3>

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<li>Press release, "<a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/asrc-federal-holding-company-holds,436655.shtml" class="external text" title="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/asrc-federal-holding-company-holds,436655.shtml" rel="nofollow">ASRC Federal Holding Company Holds 1st Annual Charity Golf Event for Local Charity</a>," <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ASRC_Federal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ASRC Federal (page does not exist)">ASRC Federal</a>, June 17, 2008. (Lincoln Group co-sponsored the event.)</li>

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Over the Counter Intelligence

Posted by Philip Mattera on June 13th, 2008

<a target="blank" href="http://timshorrock.com/">Tim Shorrock</a>, a veteran investigative journalist and a longtime subscriber to the Dirt Diggers Digest, has just come out with a book called <a target="blank" href="http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=616280&er=9780743282246">Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing</a>. Shorrock describes how an activity that used to be handled by spooks on the federal payroll has been steadily transformed into a $50 billion Intelligence-Industrial Complex.

Thanks to the contracting scandals surrounding <a href="http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/halliburton">Halliburton</a> and its former subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root, the public learned of the extent to which the Pentagon has turned over routine functions to private military companies. The outrageous behavior of <a href="http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/blackwater">Blackwater</a> has highlighted the use of mercenaries to protect U.S. diplomats and other VIPs in Iraq.

Shorrock shines a light on another group of corporations that are carrying out a more sensitive function that most people have no idea is being handed over to the private sector. Careful readers of the revelations concerning abuses at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq would have learned that interrogators alleged to have abused detainees included civilians employed by a company called CACI. But that is only the tip of a lucrative iceberg, Shorrock shows.

For example, he writes, more than half the people working at the super-secret National Counterterrorism Center in Virginia are employees of companies such as Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin. The Center’s terrorist database is maintained by <a target="_blank" href="http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/19">The Analysis Corporation</a>, which subcontracted collection activities to CACI.

Since 9/11, Shorrock says, the Central Intelligence Agency has been spending 50-60 percent of its budget (or about $2.5 billion a year) on contractors—both individuals and companies. At the CIA and its sister spook agencies: “Tasks that are now outsourced include running spy networks out of embassies, intelligence analysis, signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection, covert operations, and the interrogation of enemy prisoners.”

Shorrock devotes an entire chapter to <a href="http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/booz_allen">Booz Allen</a> Hamilton, known to most people as a management consultant for large corporations but which pioneered the intelligence outsourcing industry (though it recently agreed to sell its federal business to the Carlyle Group). When Mike McConnell, a former <a href="http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/booz_allen">Booz Allen</a> executive, was named by President Bush as Director of National Intelligence, it was the first time, Shorrock notes, that a contractor was put in charge of the country’s entire spy apparatus.

Spies for Hire has much more to offer that cannot be adequately summarized here. I recommend that you read it in full. But let me let also note that profiles of some of the intelligence contractors discussed by Shorrock—such as <a target="blank" href="http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/caci_international_inc">CACI</a> and <a target="blank" href="http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/mantech_international">ManTech International</a>—can be found on the <a target="blank" href="http://www.crocodyl.org/">Crocodyl wiki</a> to which I contribute. Also note that the updated edition of Jeremy Scahill’s valuable book <a target="blank" href="http://www.blackwaterbook.com/">Blackwater</a>, recently issued in paperback, has a discussion (p.453 forward) on the mercenary company’s move into another form of privatized intelligence—a product called Total Intelligence Solutions that is designed to bring “CIA-style” services to Fortune 500 companies.

<a target="_blank" href="http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/60">http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/60</a>

Dirt Diggers Digest is written by <a href="mailto:pmattera@goodjobsfirst.org">Philip Mattera</a>, director of the <a href="http://www.corp-research.org/">Corporate Research Project</a>, an affiliate of <a href="http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/">Good Jobs First</a>.

See also feature articles by <a title="Tim Shorrock" target="blank" href="http://www.timshorrock.com">Tim Shorrock</a> on <a href="http://www.corpwatch.org/www.corpwatch.org" target="blank">CorpWatch.org</a>:

<a href="http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14821" target="_blank">Domestic Spying, Inc.</a>

<a href="http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14898" target="_blank">QinetiQ Goes Kinetic: Top Rumsfeld Aide Wins Contracts From Spy Office He Set Up </a>

<a href="http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14963" target="_blank">Carlyle Group May Buy CIA Contractor: </a><a href="http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/booz_allen">Booz Allen</a> Hamilton

CIR oct 2 12

The nation’s vast network of anti-terrorism “fusion centers” for law enforcement have produced shoddy, untimely and often useless intelligence reports that have done little to keep the U.S. safer, a scathing U.S. Senate report concludes.

The <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/446073-10-2-12-psi-staff-report-re-fusion-centers.html#" target="_blank">141-page report</a>, a copy of which was obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting, identified problems with nearly every significant aspect of the Department of Homeland Security’s more than 70 fusion centers, which were designed for law enforcement to coordinate their intelligence gathering.

The report marks one of the most blistering indictments to date of the Department of Homeland Security’s domestic intelligence operation. The department, investigators conclude, “has not attempted to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the value federal taxpayers have received for that investment.”

Fusion centers were created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as the best way to get local, state and federal officials to share terrorism-related information, speak with each other and “connect the dots” of terrorist plots before they happened.

Many of the conclusions in the new U.S. Senate Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee probe mirror a <a href="http://cironline.org/reports/homeland-security-office-creates-intelligence-spam-insiders-claim-2915" target="_blank">CIR report last year</a> on the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence and analysis office, which supports the fusion centers. The report found that intelligence and analysis often produced "intelligence spam" that relied on stale information and provided little valuable analysis, and which was widely ignored by federal counterterrorism officials.

In the rush to stand-up the department’s intelligence arm, the short-staffed office relied heavily on contractors, such as Booz Allen Hamilton and General Dynamics, which reaped millions of federal dollars.

In the new Senate report, investigators found that with the lack of oversight, fusion centers spent money wildly, including a San Diego fusion center that bought 55 flat-screen televisions at a cost of $75,000 to watch the news and display calendars.

Some fusion centers only exist on paper. For instance, taxpayers have shelled out millions of dollars in federal grants for a planned Philadelphia fusion center, but Department of Homeland Security dollars for it have since been frozen, and as of August this year, "the center still did not physically exist," according to the report. 

All told, Homeland Security officials couldn’t account accurately for how much money has been spent on fusion centers, offering an estimate that ranged from $289 million to $1.4 billion, a billion-dollar swing.

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It has been more than 30 years since Congress acted with deep skepticism regarding government agents deployed to spy on Americans. The last thorough and truly independent investigation was after Watergate, when the Church and Pike Committees spent months intensively investigating the ways in which prior administrations had violated Americans' privacy and trampled civil liberties under the guise of national security.

In 1976, then-Attorney General Edward Levi promulgated the "Levi Guidelines," investigative guidelines developed in response to domestic surveillance abuses, such as COINTELPRO, perpetrated by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Since the Carter administration, however, there has been an accelerating erosion of protections from domestic surveillance. The "Levi Guidelines" were later largely <a href="http://epic.org/privacy/fbi/" target="_blank">countermanded through changes by John Ashcroft</a> and his successors at the Justice Department.

With the post-9/11 shift from enforcing the law to "intelligence gathering," numerous public rules as well as secret guidelines were altered to maximize the gathering of information about Americans without requiring any criminal predicate. The new rule appears to be that almost everything is fair game without probable cause, except for home searches and phone taps (but even the rules for electronic surveillance and the acquisition of intelligence information are now subject to enormous loopholes due to changes <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/washington/10fisa.html" target="blank">pushed into law in 2008</a> by Director of National Intelligence-turned-<a href="http://www.boozallen.com/about/leadership/executive-leadership/McConnell" target="blank">Booz Allen Hamilton Vice Chairman</a> Mike McConnell, <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/fbi-att-verizon-violated-wiretapping-laws/" target="_blank">with help from AT&T, Verizon, and others</a>).

It was a stroke of misfortune that, on 9/11, then-Vice President Dick Cheney served as the de facto head of the national security hierarchy. Cheney's "dark side" approach created a climate in which longstanding rules intended to protect basic rights were replaced with an array of questionable, if not absurd, interpretations of domestic and international law.

<a href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/sidebars/cheney_on_presidential_power/" target="_blank">As President Ford's chief of staff</a>, Cheney, with the aid of then-Deputy Attorney General Laurence H. Silberman, tried to thwart essential reforms of surveillance agencies. Silberman was later appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and, at the urging of his former law clerk, then-Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, helped facilitate legal opinions instrumental to the George W. Bush administration's expansion of domestic surveillance activities by redefining Americans' Fourth Amendment rights.

Unfortunately, much of this backsliding has been embraced and further entrenched by the Obama administration.

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