Re: Suffolk Poll

Thanks for getting in touch on this. The best question I can think of would be something along the lines of, "In the wake of the HBGary scandal, do you think that Congress should review the manner in which the federal government outsources intelligence operations to contractors?" In general, I'm hoping to prompt more investigation into all of this, as well as into what we've termed "Metal Gear," a name we use to describe an array of surveillance, data compilation, and manipulation procedures that have lately come into use by CENTCOM and presumably various intelligence agencies and federal contractors who develop these things at the behest of governments and large corporations. We've been investigating the issue for the last two month in conjunction with some of my journalist contacts and other parties, and it's frankly the most frightening thing I've ever come across. This is a website we've put together by which to compile our data and make it readily available; note the link to our wiki, which we're using to better show the relationships between the parties involved: http://opmetalgear.zxq.net/OMG/Home.html. We came to this via the HBGary e-mails and have since been put in the right direction by several informants associated with Booz Allen Hamilton and U.S. and Canadian military intelligence, confirming everything via intensive research. We've prompted some articles in Forbes, Guardian, and Tech Herald and I talked about it on Russia Today when we first began looking into Booz Allen's role; I'm also making a point of bringing it up in interviews and to the documentary crews that have been covering me lately, and am otherwise very intent on bringing more attention to the whole thing. Let me know if you want to discuss further; I'd be happy to chat via phone, as there are a number of ins and outs; for instance, I and a few others spent three weeks working under the tutelage of a fellow who's close to many of those who were involved in the early development of these things, and whose father, William Friedman, has an NSA auditorium named after him (the guy is also fucking nuts). Long story short, we've come upon a lot of bizarre yet verifiable things recently and I'd like to bring more people into this; I'd also like to develop this into a sort of "crowd-sourced investigation" to serve as a model for others of the sort.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Jason Potteiger <jpotteiger@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Barrett,

I believe Alex may have mentioned this to you, but I wanted to give you a heads up so that it's on your radar. I also work for Suffolk U. as a political analyst and we're fielding our first national poll sometime within the next month. I'm pushing to add questions on "digital issues" such as net neutrality, ddos and anon. If you have any input let me know, or if you know of anyone working in media or policy who'd be interested in adding a question/ suggesting a topic along these lines feel free to pass along my contact info.

Good luck on the campaign!

Best,
Jason

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