President Bush, right, and George Tenet, left, head of the Central Intelligence Agency, pause at the entrance to agency headquarters on the way to a speech in March, 2001, in which the president thanked CIA employees for their service and spoke of the importance of intelligence collection and analysis in a world that includes many new threats to U.S. security.AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS
DC Firm Becomes Intelligence Powerhouse
-- CQ Politics/Spytalk
-- CQ Politics/Spytalk
It snuck up on cat's feet -- a modest press release here, a short news announcement there.
But overnight, it seems, DC Capital Partners has become an intelligence and security powerhouse.
The firm, with offices downtown and in Alexandria, Va., was founded in 1988 by venture capitalist Thomas J. Campbell as a private equity investment company. Since then it has expanded from capitalizing middle market firms with military contracts into acquiring major players in U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism consulting.
Its board includes heavy hitters like Richard Armitage, the former deputy Secretary of State, Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff who clashed with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld over troop needs for an invasion of Iraq, Jeffrey Smith, former general counsel of the CIA, and Henry Crumpton, the State Department's former counterterrorism coordinator.
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My Comment: We always perceive companies like Blackwater or Halliburton as world symbols in the trend of subcontracting nonessential services for the military. It appears that besides providing food, fuel, body-guard services, and other non-essential services .... we can now add intelligence to the roster.
My personal opinion .... should we be surprise? I am not.