[lit-ideas] Business is good...
- From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:41:44 -0400
*How US merchants of fear sparked a $130bn bonanza*
The homeland security market has an army of lobbyists working for its
interests in Washington
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1868912,00.html
about halfway down...this non-surprise...
"Inside a fancy office block in downtown Washington DC lie the offices
of the Ashcroft Group. It is six blocks from the imposing buildings of
the Department of Justice where the head of the firm, John Ashcroft,
used to be President George W. Bush's Attorney General. As Attorney
General, Ashcroft controversially extended the surveillance powers of
the state in order to fight terrorism. Now he lobbies and consults on
behalf of technology companies seeking to capitalise on the new powers.
His clients include firms such as ChoicePoint, which gathers data on
individuals and sells it, and Innova, which makes software for
surveillance drones and robots."
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