smugllama's news review
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Growing Pessimism on Iraq (washingtonpost.com/By Dana Priest and Thomas E. Ricks)
"Growing Pessimism on Iraq Doubts Increase Within U.S. Security Agencies"
"Growing Pessimism on Iraq Doubts Increase Within U.S. Security Agencies"
Daily Kos :: Bush is fuzzy on Iraq
"BUSH: <...> Your question was deployment. It must be in the national interests, must be in our vital interests whether we ever send troops. The mission must be clear. Soldiers must understand why we're going. The force must be strong enough so that the mission can be accomplished. And the exit strategy needs to be well-defined. I'm concerned that we're overdeployed around the world. See, I think the mission has somewhat become fuzzy. Should I be fortunate enough to earn your confidence, the mission of the United States military will be to be prepared and ready to fight and win war. And therefore prevent war from happening in the first place."
"BUSH: <...> Your question was deployment. It must be in the national interests, must be in our vital interests whether we ever send troops. The mission must be clear. Soldiers must understand why we're going. The force must be strong enough so that the mission can be accomplished. And the exit strategy needs to be well-defined. I'm concerned that we're overdeployed around the world. See, I think the mission has somewhat become fuzzy. Should I be fortunate enough to earn your confidence, the mission of the United States military will be to be prepared and ready to fight and win war. And therefore prevent war from happening in the first place."
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
IHT: '03 reports predicted Iraq chaos (International Herald Tribune/Douglas Jehl and David E. Sanger)
"WASHINGTON The same intelligence unit that produced a gloomy report in July about the prospect of growing instability in Iraq warned the Bush administration about the potential costly consequences of an American-led invasion two months before the war began, according to government officials."
"WASHINGTON The same intelligence unit that produced a gloomy report in July about the prospect of growing instability in Iraq warned the Bush administration about the potential costly consequences of an American-led invasion two months before the war began, according to government officials."
Rumsfeld Raises Prospect of Limited Iraq Elections (washingtonpost.com)
"'Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet,' he said."
"'Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet,' he said."
BostonHerald.com - Election 2004 Coverage: Tiny Crawford newspaper endorses Kerry (Boston Herald)
"CRAWFORD, Texas -- A weekly newspaper that bills itself as President Bush's hometown paper endorsed John Kerry [related, bio] for president, saying the Massachusetts senator will restore American dignity. "
"CRAWFORD, Texas -- A weekly newspaper that bills itself as President Bush's hometown paper endorsed John Kerry [related, bio] for president, saying the Massachusetts senator will restore American dignity. "
Ohio voter registration cards to be voided? (act04.org)
Ohio Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell (R), is threatening to void voter registration cards not filed on the correct weight paper. Apparently there's a law on the books stating that 80 pound stock paper must be used for official voter registration cards. Bush still holds a slight lead in Ohio polls. No Republican has ever been elected without Ohio's electoral votes.
Ohio Secretary of State, Ken Blackwell (R), is threatening to void voter registration cards not filed on the correct weight paper. Apparently there's a law on the books stating that 80 pound stock paper must be used for official voter registration cards. Bush still holds a slight lead in Ohio polls. No Republican has ever been elected without Ohio's electoral votes.
Probe sought of re-enlistment tactics (MSNBC)
DENVER - A Colorado congresswoman called Monday for an investigation into allegations that Iraqi war veterans near the end of their duty were given a choice between re-enlisting or being sent back to Iraq.
DENVER - A Colorado congresswoman called Monday for an investigation into allegations that Iraqi war veterans near the end of their duty were given a choice between re-enlisting or being sent back to Iraq.
Monday, September 27, 2004
Powell contradicts Bush, says Iraq 'getting worse' (Columbia Daily Tribune)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell sees the situation in Iraq "getting worse" as planned elections approach, and the top U.S. military commander for Iraq says he expects more violence ahead.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell sees the situation in Iraq "getting worse" as planned elections approach, and the top U.S. military commander for Iraq says he expects more violence ahead.
Pentagon link to Guinea coup plot (Guardian Unlimited)
Links have been discovered between senior American military officials and the failed coup plot in Equatorial Guinea that has left Sir Mark Thatcher facing trial in South Africa.
Links have been discovered between senior American military officials and the failed coup plot in Equatorial Guinea that has left Sir Mark Thatcher facing trial in South Africa.
Former CIA agent says Bush to blame for 9/11 (Chris Gardner - The Oracle Correspondent)
[McGovern:] "To say that no one could prevent 9/11 was a bold-faced lie. It basically let the president and everyone responsible off the hook." ... "There might be a real or staged terrorist attack in order to postpone the elections," McGovern said. "This might seem outlandish; I hope it is." ... "I have initials for why I think we went to war in Iraq," McGovern said. "O.I.L. O-I-L, O is for oil, I is for Israel and L is for logistics, as in when we have Iraq we have a foothold and a number of bases strategically placed in the Middle East so we can be in control over there and also to protect Israel."
[McGovern:] "To say that no one could prevent 9/11 was a bold-faced lie. It basically let the president and everyone responsible off the hook." ... "There might be a real or staged terrorist attack in order to postpone the elections," McGovern said. "This might seem outlandish; I hope it is." ... "I have initials for why I think we went to war in Iraq," McGovern said. "O.I.L. O-I-L, O is for oil, I is for Israel and L is for logistics, as in when we have Iraq we have a foothold and a number of bases strategically placed in the Middle East so we can be in control over there and also to protect Israel."
Monday, September 20, 2004
Embarrassing find (Toronto Sun/Eric Margolis)
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/09/19/634925.html
Here comes another huge nuclear embarrassment for Washington. UN nuclear inspectors just caught close U.S. ally South Korea enriching small amounts of plutonium and uranium to weapons grade. This revelation comes when the Bush administration's neocon hawks are clamouring for war against Iran over its unproven nuclear weapons program. These are the same hawks who raised a hue and cry over Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/09/19/634925.html
Here comes another huge nuclear embarrassment for Washington. UN nuclear inspectors just caught close U.S. ally South Korea enriching small amounts of plutonium and uranium to weapons grade. This revelation comes when the Bush administration's neocon hawks are clamouring for war against Iran over its unproven nuclear weapons program. These are the same hawks who raised a hue and cry over Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction.
Sunday, September 19, 2004
The Central Intelligence Agency is looking for a few good spies (U.S. News)
"YOU ARE AMERICA. CHOOSE A CAREER THAT MATCHES. Service. Dedication. Growth. Opportunity. These are the hallmarks of a career with the Central Intelligence Agency. They're also the reqards of truly fulfulling work. Your talent, experience and heritage can help meet America's intelligence challenges. But only if you take the next step. Research. Inquire. Apply online. Visit www.cia.gov. *Applicants must have US citizenship and the ability to complete medical examinations and security procedures, including a polygraph interview. EOE - THE WORK OF A NATION. THE CENTER OF INTELLIGENCE."
"YOU ARE AMERICA. CHOOSE A CAREER THAT MATCHES. Service. Dedication. Growth. Opportunity. These are the hallmarks of a career with the Central Intelligence Agency. They're also the reqards of truly fulfulling work. Your talent, experience and heritage can help meet America's intelligence challenges. But only if you take the next step. Research. Inquire. Apply online. Visit www.cia.gov. *Applicants must have US citizenship and the ability to complete medical examinations and security procedures, including a polygraph interview. EOE - THE WORK OF A NATION. THE CENTER OF INTELLIGENCE."
Thursday, September 16, 2004
US vigilantes convicted in Kabul (BBC)
"Idema, who the US calls a bounty hunter, said his work had been approved by Afghan and US authorities. He told the court the FBI was setting him up." During his trial, Idema alleged that hundreds of videos, photos and documents were removed by FBI officers after his arrest in Kabul. He said the documents would prove that "while we were not in the United States army, we were working for the United States army".
"Idema, who the US calls a bounty hunter, said his work had been approved by Afghan and US authorities. He told the court the FBI was setting him up." During his trial, Idema alleged that hundreds of videos, photos and documents were removed by FBI officers after his arrest in Kabul. He said the documents would prove that "while we were not in the United States army, we were working for the United States army".
9/11: What You Ought to Know (Greg Palast / Guerrilla News Network)
Shortly after George W. Bush took office the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the FBI, "were told to back off the Saudis." I pressed him to tell me exactly which investigations were spiked. ... Ultimately, the insider said, "Khan Labs." At the time, our intelligence agencies were on the trail of Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove, A.Q. Khan, who built Pakistan's bomb and was selling its secrets to the Libyans. But once Bush and Condoleeza Rice's team took over, the source told us, agents were forced to let a hot trail go cold. Specifically, there were limits on tracing the Saudi money behind this "Islamic bomb."
Shortly after George W. Bush took office the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the FBI, "were told to back off the Saudis." I pressed him to tell me exactly which investigations were spiked. ... Ultimately, the insider said, "Khan Labs." At the time, our intelligence agencies were on the trail of Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove, A.Q. Khan, who built Pakistan's bomb and was selling its secrets to the Libyans. But once Bush and Condoleeza Rice's team took over, the source told us, agents were forced to let a hot trail go cold. Specifically, there were limits on tracing the Saudi money behind this "Islamic bomb."
Saturday, September 04, 2004
Is The Pentagon Keeping Tabs on Political Websites? (Prison Planet)
Read the original aricle above that caught my attention...
It said to E-mail your comment on this article to prisonplanetweb@hotmail.com and have it posted here. So I wrote a response:
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 01:55:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jason Staples
To: prisonplanetweb@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Is The Pentagon Keeping Tabs on Political Websites?
Alex,
I'd like to make a few statements regarding your article hoping that you'll amend the article as I trust you are an honest journalist in pursuit of the truth...
After reading the article, I feel oblidged to share some of the things I've learned in the last seven years working the abuse department for a mid-sized internet service provider.
Executive Summary: After careful review of web traffic originating from The Defense Information Systems Agency via systems I maintain, I've concluded that the claimed traffic is not spoofed and does indeed originate from the Pentagon.
However the Pentagon is NOT targeting political websites (at least via these systems) Rather they are targeting everything, particularly images.
Details: Over the last year or so I have observed 18 unique IP addresses belonging to the The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) retrieving content from a webserver I maintain.
198.26.118.37, 198.26.119.84, 198.26.119.85, 198.26.119.86, 198.26.120.12, 198.26.120.13, 198.26.122.12, 198.26.122.13, 198.26.123.36, 198.26.123.37, 198.26.125.12, 198.26.125.13, 198.26.126.12, 198.26.126.13, 198.26.130.36, 198.26.130.37, 198.26.132.101, and 198.26.132.99
Based on the nature of the websites they're hitting, they seem to be more interested in pictures than in political dissent. They haven't even hit my political weblog. (though others would argue that they don't need to since Google bought Blogger)
What I can tell is that they're running some sort of mirroring software that spiders through a website and downloads a copy of what it finds. (As if they were trying to run their own Google.) They particularly seem to be following around message boards and looking at links posted from boards. They also seem to be using yahoo to dig for images.
Their spider even goes to some efforts to try to make it look like its really a human browsing it. For example, mid way through downloading a page full of thumbnails, the IP address jumps to a neighboring IP and the user-agent changes (The user agent declares what web browser / software is being used.) This should never happen in real web browsing.
However, Not all activity from this block of address space is necessarily done by a spider. Some of it looks as though it may actually be done by a human. They especially seemed to like a picture, alizee_ass.gif, which I see retrieved multiple times from multiple addresses, indicating that the url was perhaps being passed around the office. (do the guys at the pentagon browse porn at work, too?)
As for the issue of could this be spoofed, that is not the case here. Although it is extremely trivial to forge some types of traffic (like denial of service attacks, anything involving ICMP or UDP), it is notably more difficult to spoof traffic involving a TCP socket (which is what all webservers use to talk to the rest of the internet). Modern operating systems contain security provisions for ensuring that TCP sockets are not forged. Getting lines into logfiles via a webserver is next to impossible from a spoofing perspective...
However, there is one unlikely catch. Even if the requests aren't spoofed and are in fact coming from the Pentagon, that doesn't rule out the possiblity that hackers are using the pentagon's computers to browse your website... No, common sense should rule that one out. Thats not to say that Pentagon computers aren't succeptable to 3rd party abuse; in fact I can find at least 4 delivery attempts from a DISA computer to deliver spam from an improperly secured web proxy operating on their network... This type of security error would also facilitate the type of spam bombardment that precipitated this entire conversation (the spam bombing of a website containing political content)
To find out what The Defense Information Systems Agency has been up to in your logfiles, you can:
egrep '198\.26\.1[123]'
(unix shells only, otherwise try searching for "198.26.1")
==========
Conclusion
==========
Is the Pentagon visiting our websites? Yes.
Are they "up to something?" Most Likely.
Are they targeting political websites? No.
I hope this clears up a few items being debated.
Regards,
Jason Staples
--
Further discussion of how links to one of my friend's website was discovered sparked an intrest in where DISA actually got my friend's link. He claims the only thing the link was used for was for posting personal files and emailing links to his relatives... Further testing is currently underway to discover where DISA sniffs our links from... More coming soon on this.
Further research into DISA:
http://www.disa.mil/main/about/missman.html
"The Defense Information Systems Agency is a combat support agency responsible for planning, engineering, acquiring, fielding, and supporting global net-centric solutions to serve the needs of the President, Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, and other DoD Components, under all conditions of peace and war."
Vision: We are the provider of global net-centric solutions for the Nation's warfighters and all those who support them in the defense of the nation.
http://www.disa.mil/main/about/coremission.html
DISA performs a number of very important missions in support of the President, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commanders, and the other Department of Defense (DoD) components under all conditions of peace and war. Some of these missions are designated as core missions because together they provide highly integrated C4 warfighting capabilities. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts and removing one of the core missions would adversely affect the others. Some other critical missions are designated as "best fit" missions, meaning that DISA is well-suited to perform these missions and has been assigned them over time. However, they could be assigned to others without destroying the synergy that exists among the core missions. Thus, the terms "core" and "best fit" are not designators of relative importance but indicate degrees of synergy. The designated core missions of DISA are communications, joint command and control, defensive information operations, combat support computing, and joint interoperability support.
On June 25, 1991, DCA was renamed DISA to reflect its role in providing total information systems management for DoD. DCA implemented several Defense Management Report Decisions (DMRD), most notably DMRD 918, which created the Defense Information Infrastructure, now known as the Global Information Grid. DISA consolidated several information processing centers into 16 Defense megacenters and, within a few years, consolidated them further into five mainframe-processing centers. The Joint Spectrum Center and the Defense Technical Information Center also became part of DISA. Employment peaks at more than 12,000 military and civilian members.
Today, DISA is in the process of consolidating computing services even further; by September 2005, DISA computing services will consist of one headquarters component, four production system management centers, and several optimally staffed processing sites.
Approximately 8,000 military and civilian employees work in DISA, and with the consolidation of computing services that number will be reduced by another 1,200.
DISA has been awarded five Joint Unit Meritorious Service Awards and continues to offer DoD information systems support, taking data services to the forward-deployed warfighter.
CONTRACTS
http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/2004/ct20040713.html
DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY
Houston Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA, a small disadvantaged business, is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee performance-based contract to provide support to the Defense Information Systems Agency, Advanced Information Technology Services-Joint Program Office (AITS-JPO). The contract has a base period of one year with four 12-month options, and two 12-month award term periods obtainable if the contractor's accomplishment of the performance work statement is determined to be superior. Estimated cost for the entire seven-year period is $70,000,000.00. This contract will provide support to the AITS-JPO to (1) maintain and operate integration environments to allow projects with specific architectural and integration goals to gain early visibility into target software systems and architectures in which they will interoperate or provide extensions; (2) maintain and support the leading edge services network; (3) demonstrate, evaluate, monitor and test advanced information technology; and (4) maintain and operate the infrastructure and resources necessary for technology insertion and transition. The requirement was solicited as a 100 percent small business set-aside. Five offers were received. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization-National Capital Region is the contracting activity (HC1047-04-C-4070).
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Defense%20Information%20Systems%20Agency
Noun 1. Defense Information Systems Agency - a combat support agency in the Department of Defense responsible for developing and operating and supporting information systems to serve the needs of the President and the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
DISA
Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, Defense - the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the UnitedStates; created in 1947
bureau, federal agency, government agency, agency, office, authority - an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040608/dctu029_1.html
Defense Information Systems Agency Awards $29 Million Blanket Purchase Agreement to DLT Solutions for Red Hat Software
Linux Software Will Support DoD Enterprise Software Initiative
(Which, happens to also be the same operating system that Google runs on)
Read the original aricle above that caught my attention...
It said to E-mail your comment on this article to prisonplanetweb@hotmail.com and have it posted here. So I wrote a response:
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 01:55:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jason Staples
To: prisonplanetweb@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Is The Pentagon Keeping Tabs on Political Websites?
Alex,
I'd like to make a few statements regarding your article hoping that you'll amend the article as I trust you are an honest journalist in pursuit of the truth...
After reading the article, I feel oblidged to share some of the things I've learned in the last seven years working the abuse department for a mid-sized internet service provider.
Executive Summary: After careful review of web traffic originating from The Defense Information Systems Agency via systems I maintain, I've concluded that the claimed traffic is not spoofed and does indeed originate from the Pentagon.
However the Pentagon is NOT targeting political websites (at least via these systems) Rather they are targeting everything, particularly images.
Details: Over the last year or so I have observed 18 unique IP addresses belonging to the The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) retrieving content from a webserver I maintain.
198.26.118.37, 198.26.119.84, 198.26.119.85, 198.26.119.86, 198.26.120.12, 198.26.120.13, 198.26.122.12, 198.26.122.13, 198.26.123.36, 198.26.123.37, 198.26.125.12, 198.26.125.13, 198.26.126.12, 198.26.126.13, 198.26.130.36, 198.26.130.37, 198.26.132.101, and 198.26.132.99
Based on the nature of the websites they're hitting, they seem to be more interested in pictures than in political dissent. They haven't even hit my political weblog. (though others would argue that they don't need to since Google bought Blogger)
What I can tell is that they're running some sort of mirroring software that spiders through a website and downloads a copy of what it finds. (As if they were trying to run their own Google.) They particularly seem to be following around message boards and looking at links posted from boards. They also seem to be using yahoo to dig for images.
Their spider even goes to some efforts to try to make it look like its really a human browsing it. For example, mid way through downloading a page full of thumbnails, the IP address jumps to a neighboring IP and the user-agent changes (The user agent declares what web browser / software is being used.) This should never happen in real web browsing.
However, Not all activity from this block of address space is necessarily done by a spider. Some of it looks as though it may actually be done by a human. They especially seemed to like a picture, alizee_ass.gif, which I see retrieved multiple times from multiple addresses, indicating that the url was perhaps being passed around the office. (do the guys at the pentagon browse porn at work, too?)
As for the issue of could this be spoofed, that is not the case here. Although it is extremely trivial to forge some types of traffic (like denial of service attacks, anything involving ICMP or UDP), it is notably more difficult to spoof traffic involving a TCP socket (which is what all webservers use to talk to the rest of the internet). Modern operating systems contain security provisions for ensuring that TCP sockets are not forged. Getting lines into logfiles via a webserver is next to impossible from a spoofing perspective...
However, there is one unlikely catch. Even if the requests aren't spoofed and are in fact coming from the Pentagon, that doesn't rule out the possiblity that hackers are using the pentagon's computers to browse your website... No, common sense should rule that one out. Thats not to say that Pentagon computers aren't succeptable to 3rd party abuse; in fact I can find at least 4 delivery attempts from a DISA computer to deliver spam from an improperly secured web proxy operating on their network... This type of security error would also facilitate the type of spam bombardment that precipitated this entire conversation (the spam bombing of a website containing political content)
To find out what The Defense Information Systems Agency has been up to in your logfiles, you can:
egrep '198\.26\.1[123]'
(unix shells only, otherwise try searching for "198.26.1")
==========
Conclusion
==========
Is the Pentagon visiting our websites? Yes.
Are they "up to something?" Most Likely.
Are they targeting political websites? No.
I hope this clears up a few items being debated.
Regards,
Jason Staples
--
Further discussion of how links to one of my friend's website was discovered sparked an intrest in where DISA actually got my friend's link. He claims the only thing the link was used for was for posting personal files and emailing links to his relatives... Further testing is currently underway to discover where DISA sniffs our links from... More coming soon on this.
Further research into DISA:
http://www.disa.mil/main/about/missman.html
"The Defense Information Systems Agency is a combat support agency responsible for planning, engineering, acquiring, fielding, and supporting global net-centric solutions to serve the needs of the President, Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, and other DoD Components, under all conditions of peace and war."
Vision: We are the provider of global net-centric solutions for the Nation's warfighters and all those who support them in the defense of the nation.
http://www.disa.mil/main/about/coremission.html
DISA performs a number of very important missions in support of the President, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commanders, and the other Department of Defense (DoD) components under all conditions of peace and war. Some of these missions are designated as core missions because together they provide highly integrated C4 warfighting capabilities. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts and removing one of the core missions would adversely affect the others. Some other critical missions are designated as "best fit" missions, meaning that DISA is well-suited to perform these missions and has been assigned them over time. However, they could be assigned to others without destroying the synergy that exists among the core missions. Thus, the terms "core" and "best fit" are not designators of relative importance but indicate degrees of synergy. The designated core missions of DISA are communications, joint command and control, defensive information operations, combat support computing, and joint interoperability support.
On June 25, 1991, DCA was renamed DISA to reflect its role in providing total information systems management for DoD. DCA implemented several Defense Management Report Decisions (DMRD), most notably DMRD 918, which created the Defense Information Infrastructure, now known as the Global Information Grid. DISA consolidated several information processing centers into 16 Defense megacenters and, within a few years, consolidated them further into five mainframe-processing centers. The Joint Spectrum Center and the Defense Technical Information Center also became part of DISA. Employment peaks at more than 12,000 military and civilian members.
Today, DISA is in the process of consolidating computing services even further; by September 2005, DISA computing services will consist of one headquarters component, four production system management centers, and several optimally staffed processing sites.
Approximately 8,000 military and civilian employees work in DISA, and with the consolidation of computing services that number will be reduced by another 1,200.
DISA has been awarded five Joint Unit Meritorious Service Awards and continues to offer DoD information systems support, taking data services to the forward-deployed warfighter.
CONTRACTS
http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/2004/ct20040713.html
DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY
Houston Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA, a small disadvantaged business, is being awarded a cost plus fixed fee performance-based contract to provide support to the Defense Information Systems Agency, Advanced Information Technology Services-Joint Program Office (AITS-JPO). The contract has a base period of one year with four 12-month options, and two 12-month award term periods obtainable if the contractor's accomplishment of the performance work statement is determined to be superior. Estimated cost for the entire seven-year period is $70,000,000.00. This contract will provide support to the AITS-JPO to (1) maintain and operate integration environments to allow projects with specific architectural and integration goals to gain early visibility into target software systems and architectures in which they will interoperate or provide extensions; (2) maintain and support the leading edge services network; (3) demonstrate, evaluate, monitor and test advanced information technology; and (4) maintain and operate the infrastructure and resources necessary for technology insertion and transition. The requirement was solicited as a 100 percent small business set-aside. Five offers were received. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization-National Capital Region is the contracting activity (HC1047-04-C-4070).
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Defense%20Information%20Systems%20Agency
Noun 1. Defense Information Systems Agency - a combat support agency in the Department of Defense responsible for developing and operating and supporting information systems to serve the needs of the President and the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
DISA
Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, Defense - the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the UnitedStates; created in 1947
bureau, federal agency, government agency, agency, office, authority - an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040608/dctu029_1.html
Defense Information Systems Agency Awards $29 Million Blanket Purchase Agreement to DLT Solutions for Red Hat Software
Linux Software Will Support DoD Enterprise Software Initiative
(Which, happens to also be the same operating system that Google runs on)
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Text of Michael Ruppert's Speech at the Commonwealth Club Last Night (SF Bay Area Indymedia)
"I will name Richard Cheney as the prime suspect in the mass murders of 9/11 and will establish that, not only was he a planner in the attacks, but also that on the day of the attacks he was running a completely separate Command, Control and Communications system which was superceding any orders being issued by the NMCC [National Military Command Center], or the White House Situation Room."
"I will name Richard Cheney as the prime suspect in the mass murders of 9/11 and will establish that, not only was he a planner in the attacks, but also that on the day of the attacks he was running a completely separate Command, Control and Communications system which was superceding any orders being issued by the NMCC [National Military Command Center], or the White House Situation Room."
