Jan. 14, 2019 - Steve Pieczenik
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| Hi, I'm Dr. | |
| Paternick. | |
| Today I want to talk about what we call the Beltway Bandits. | |
| Fifty years ago, one of our greatest presidents, Eisenhower, said the following, beware of the military industrial complex. | |
| And what he meant about that wasn't just the fact that we had a huge military which really couldn't fight very well. | |
| We hadn't really won World War II. We hadn't won the Korean War. | |
| We hadn't won the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, Afghanistan War. | |
| But even more serious than that was the fact that even though we have 800,000 people who are not working in the government, there are over 4 million people who are working for the Beltway Bandits for different companies. | |
| Let me give you an idea. | |
| The first company that we think of is Lockheed Martin. | |
| And what is important about Lockheed Martin is that they developed for $1.5 trillion, not billion, trillion dollars, a plane that doesn't fly. | |
| And that's called the F-35. | |
| Now think about that. | |
| You have developed a plane for $1.5 trillion and the plane can't fly because of parts that don't work? | |
| Lest you think this was the only time Lockheed Martin had a problem, we have to think about the F-22 where there were problems in that plane as well. | |
| Now, if you want to build a road in Afghanistan and you want to create a war as Cheney did, you go to Halliburton and outsource the roads, the food, everything that you need to have because you can't depend on your soldiers and you can charge five as Five times or 100 times the amount that you would charge our ordinary military in order to do any given service. | |
| So you go to Halliburton or a more secret firm is called Bechtel. | |
| That was done and written by Steve Bechtel. | |
| Now, if you're in the intelligence community... | |
| Or in one of the secret 17 organizations like the CIA, the NSA, the NRO, and other organizations, we have a special company for you called SAIC. The acronym is not important. | |
| It's now changed to LIDO. But more importantly, SAIC is what I consider the geriatric unit of the American military and the intelligence community. | |
| What do I mean? | |
| One of the few individuals whom I had the least amount of respect for, besides Cheney, was Robert Gates, the director of the CIA. I knew him to be a man of very little intellect, very little imagination, and he was the director of the CIA where he wasn't really impressive. | |
| More importantly, we at the RAINN Corporation did not want him or Condoleezza Rice because we felt they weren't very bright. | |
| But he became the Director of the CIA. And guess what? | |
| After becoming the Director of the CIA, if you're not that good, you become Secretary of Defense. | |
| And even there, he didn't do well. | |
| But guess what again? | |
| If you don't do well as Secretary of Defense, you become a member of the Board of Directors of SAIC. Now, if you think that's the only example that's there, let me give you an example of another individual who I thought was not very bright, General Michael Hayden. | |
| Again, he was positioned to be director of the CIA, and guess what? | |
| Releasing all kinds of information and was found in miscreant behavior. | |
| So what do you do with General Michael Hayden, a not too bright military intelligence officer? | |
| You put him on the board of directors of SAIC. Now why do I like SAIC? It's a huge organization, one of the largest beltway bandits of all. | |
| It has over 44,000 contractees. | |
| But more importantly, it was started by a man by the name of Baston, B-E-B-Y-S-T-O-N-E, in a little town called La Jolla, California in the 1960s. | |
| Now, that is an unusual place because La Jolla is a very expensive place where our miscreant Mitt Romney comes from, and you have to be a multimillionaire. | |
| Well, lo and behold, this gentleman built up SAIC out of nothing into a multi-trillion dollar organization with 44,000 members all over the world and all over our government. | |
| Now, let me end with the following saying, what is a consultant? | |
| As Eric Severide said of CBS News, a consultant is a poor man who works 50 miles away from home. |
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