"Booz Allen Hamilton: Corporate Intelligence" ------In February 2011, Booz Allen was implicated in an embarrassing exposure of emails discussing the hiring of three military intelligence contractors to spy on enemies of the Chamber of Commerce and Booz Allen’s client, Bank of America. Chamber critics that were to be targeted included U.S. Chamber Watch, a union-backed group founded to monitor the chamber, and journalist Glenn Greenwald, then at Salon. In scores of emails that hackers posted on the Internet, three partners at Hunton & Williams law firm and representatives of the military intelligence contractors discussed dirty tricks, including creating false personas and fake documents to embarrass the Chamber’s critics. In one example, a false persona would be created through social media. A target would be “friended” on Facebook and then drawn into manipulated conversations that would prove embarrassing------
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 02:18:32 +0000
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