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sidneyharman https://www.dailykos.com/news/sidneyharman News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 06:30:49 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 06:30:49 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Open thread for Night Owls: Newsweek & intel https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/9/891640/-Open-thread-for-Night-Owls-Newsweek-intel At the Daily Beast, Tim Shorrock <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-09/sidney-harmans-intelligence-connection/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsR2">writes</a>: <blockquote> It’s well-known that Sidney Harman, the electronics mogul who just bought Newsweek, is married to Rep. Jane Harman, one of Washington’s heavyweights on intelligence. Rep. Harman, a Democrat, spent eight years on the House Intelligence Committee and is chairwoman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence & Terrorism. She has had an intimate, and sometimes controversial, relationship to America’s spy agencies during her eight terms in Congress. But few in Washington are aware that the real intelligence insider of the Harman family may be Sidney himself, through his connections to an obscure but highly influential organization known as Business Executives for National Security. ... In many ways, BENS can be considered the godfather of the contracting revolution that transformed the U.S. government into a vast, $600 billion market for corporate America and made national security—and spying in particular—a gross vehicle for private enterprise. Over the past 28 years, BENS has participated in dozens of high-level commissions that have altered the way the Pentagon and the intelligence community do business, and has become a favored perch for former high-ranking officials and generals, from Henry Kissinger to Gen. Peter Pace. ... In its advisory role, BENS has been a driving force in the privatization of U.S. defense capabilities, including the outsourcing of the precious intelligence assets that Rep. Harman had direct oversight over for eight years as the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. </blockquote> At Daily Kos on this date in <a href="http://www.dailykos.net/archives/003736.html#003736">2003</a>: <blockquote> Defense engineers dispute trailer claims Iraqi scientists, under interrogation, said so. The Brits said so. The State Department's intelligence arm said so. Now, we learn, Pentagon engineering experts are also saying so: <blockquote> Engineering experts from the Defense Intelligence Agency have come to believe that the most likely use for two mysterious trailers found in Iraq was to produce hydrogen for weather balloons rather than to make biological weapons, government officials say. So let's thing about this for a second. The DIA/CIA issued a joint report back on June 2nd saying the trailers were bioweapons facilities. However, we now know that a "a majority of the Defense Intelligence Agency's engineering team had come to disagree with the central finding of the white paper: that the trailers were used for making biological weapons." </blockquote> So who the hell wrote the report? And why was the author dismissive of the agency's own experts? </blockquote> rss@dailykos.com (Meteor Blades) businessexecutivesfornationalsecurity Intelligence JaneHarman Newsweek sidneyharman The Daily Beast TheDailyBeast TimShorrock _891640 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:56:14 +0000 Newsweek to be sold to Harman. (If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/2/889758/-Newsweek-to-be-sold-to-Harman-If-you-can-t-beat-em-buy-em  New York Mayor Bloomberg will no longer be the only politician with ownership in news media.  Congresswoman Jane Harman, via her husband's  <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/02/financial/f135309D32.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0vUh704gk">proposed acquisition</a> of Newsweek magazine, will join that small club. <blockquote> Sidney Harman, the 91-year-old founder of audio equipment maker Harman International Industries Inc., has agreed to buy Newsweek, ending a nearly half-century chapter for the magazine as part of The Washington Post Co. </blockquote> rss@dailykos.com (FoundingFatherDAR) CA-36 JaneHarman JonMeacham Media Newsweek sidneyharman _889758 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:53:11 +0000