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The Biden-Harris Transition Team released names of people who are on their "agency review teams," which will prepare Biden and his Cabinet for their administration.
Let's examine some of the individuals who are notable because of their backgrounds. #BidenTransition
Let's examine some of the individuals who are notable because of their backgrounds. #BidenTransition
Matt Olsen is former Obama administration official. He was National Counterterrorism Center director, briefly the NSA general counsel, and executive director for Gitmo Review Task Force.
Olsen is volunteer for Intelligence Community group.
Olsen is volunteer for Intelligence Community group.
In 2018, Olsen went to work for Uber as the corporation's chief security officer.
Uber joined with other corporations & spent hundreds of millions of dollars to pass Prop 22 in California. It ensures drivers and couriers are exempt from minimum wage. https://readsludge.com/2020/10/06/how-uber-and-lyft-are-buying-labor-laws/
Uber joined with other corporations & spent hundreds of millions of dollars to pass Prop 22 in California. It ensures drivers and couriers are exempt from minimum wage. https://readsludge.com/2020/10/06/how-uber-and-lyft-are-buying-labor-laws/
Olsen has contended what NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed had little to do with privacy and civil liberties, a talking point former officials have repeated to discredit him. He also insists terrorists changed their behavior to avoid detection.
Olsen defended backdoor searches of Americans' internet communications.
"...[N]o principled or logical limit to view of critics that FBI should have to establish probable cause & get permission of judge to look at information it has already obtained..." https://www.justsecurity.org/47470/warrantless-backdoor-searches-business-usual-a-response-matt-olsen-asha-rangappa/
"...[N]o principled or logical limit to view of critics that FBI should have to establish probable cause & get permission of judge to look at information it has already obtained..." https://www.justsecurity.org/47470/warrantless-backdoor-searches-business-usual-a-response-matt-olsen-asha-rangappa/
As deputy AG for DOJ's National Security Division from 2006-2009, Olsen helped break barriers preventing prosecutors from using info collected through clandestine operations and warrantless surveillance in criminal cases. He crafted expansion of FISA. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/getting-know-nominated-counterterrorism-chief/352419/
Greg Vogle is a partner for the McChrystal Group, which was founded by Stanley McChrystal, former commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). He was the CIA head of station in Afghanistan.
Vogle is a volunteer for Intelligence Community group.
Vogle is a volunteer for Intelligence Community group.
Vogle was an adviser for DGC International, a US military contractor founded and headed by Afghan businessman Mustafa Zamani.
Examples of some of the services DGC provides so US military can maintain its dominating presence in the Middle East:
Examples of some of the services DGC provides so US military can maintain its dominating presence in the Middle East:
Eric Velez-Villar spent 30 years at FBI and eventually was a senior executive for Intelligence Branch. He left to become head of security for Disney's parks and resorts and protect corporation's "sensitive information."
He is volunteer for Intelligence Community Group.
He is volunteer for Intelligence Community Group.
Carmen Middleton also has worked for Disney. She is former deputy executive director of CIA. She was CIA's highest-ranking Latina and showed women like her can destabilize the world in the name of American democracy too.
Middleton is volunteer for Intelligence Community group.
Middleton is volunteer for Intelligence Community group.
Bob Litt is the former general counsel for the Office of Director for National Intelligence (ODNI). He worked with James Clapper and was involved in US intelligence response to Snowden's whistleblowing.
Litt is volunteer for the Intelligence Community group.
Litt is volunteer for the Intelligence Community group.
Here is Litt defending Clapper after the New York Times published an editorial suggesting Clapper lied to Congress about the collection of Americans' phone metadata:
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2014/item/996-letter-to-the-new-york-times-editor-from-odni-general-counsel-robert-litt
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2014/item/996-letter-to-the-new-york-times-editor-from-odni-general-counsel-robert-litt
When any American newspaper revealed some new aspect of mass surveillance program operated by US government—for example, how NSA stored location data for "hundreds of millions of devices"—it was Litt who deployed to make sure it did not erupt into a scandal which led to reform.
Comment: I don't think this group of "intelligence community" advisers will support dropping the charges against Edward Snowden or Daniel Hale. They may not even object to prosecuting Assange, even though Obama Justice Dept declined to charge him.
I'll detail some more of the Biden-Harris transition cast and crew in the morning.
