Homeland Security Advisory Council
Homeland Security Advisory Council | |
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Formation | March 19, 2002 |
Parent organization | Executive Office of the President of the United States |
Subpage | •Homeland Security Advisory Council/Chair •Homeland Security Advisory Council/Vice Chair |
Naomi Klein, describes the HSAC as a brand-new arm of the state created by the Bush regime, the clearest expression of a 'wholly outsourced mode of government':
Although the stated goal was fighting terrorism, the effect was the creation of the disaster capitalism complex - a fully fledged new economy in homeland security, privatised war and disaster reconstruction tasked with nothing less than building and running a privatised security state, both at home and abroad. The economic stimulus of this sweeping initiative proved enough to pick up the slack where globalisation and the dotcom booms had left off. Just as the internet had launched the dotcom bubble, 9/11 launched the disaster capitalism bubble. "When the IT industry shut down, post-bubble, guess who had all the money? The government," said Roger Novak of Novak Biddle Venture Partners, a venture capitalism firm that invests in homeland security companies. Now, he says, "Every fund is seeing how big the trough is and asking, 'How do I get a piece of that action?'"[1]
Known members
8 of the 26 of the members already have pages here:
Member | Description |
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Norman Augustine | Spooky businessman |
Louis Freeh | "A legacy of corruption..." |
Lee H. Hamilton | Having chaired some key house committees, Hamilton appears to have established himself as a safe pair of hands for handling potentially damaging information, explaining his choice as fallback vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission. |
Jeff Moss | Founder of the Black Hat & DEF CON computer Hacker conferences |
Sonny Perdue | |
James Schlesinger | USDSO, DCI, RAND, US Defense secretary |
Sidney Taurel | US Bilderberger businessman with long career in Big Pharma Eli Lilly. Member of Homeland Security Advisory Council. |
William Webster | A "key member" of Diligence |
References
- ↑ Naomi Klein, "The age of disaster capitalism", The Guardian, 10 September 2007