You thought it was just Treason by Trump’s General Flynn?

“The Post found that more than 500 retired U.S. military personnel — including scores of generals and admirals — had accepted employment
from foreign governments, mostly as contractors in countries known
for human rights abuses and political repression.”
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THE WASHINGTON POST

Retired NSA director won lucrative consulting deals with Saudis, Japan

Retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who led the National Security Agency under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, secured $2 million in consulting deals with foreign governments after leaving office, including a $700,000 contract to advise Saudi Arabia
on cybersecurity after the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, newly released records show.

Alexander’s consulting firm also won a $1.3 million contract from the government of Japan to provide advice on cyber issues, according to additional documents obtained by The Washington Post as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.

Details of those lucrative contracts are among records disclosed by the Pentagon for the first time about retired generals and admirals who have leveraged their military service over the past decade to obtain work from foreign governments. The
disclosures by the Pentagon came in response to The Post’s lawsuit and demands from Congress, which has scheduled a hearing on the issue Wednesday.

In an investigation last year, The Post found that more than 500 retired U.S. military personnel — including scores of generals and admirals — had accepted employment from foreign governments, mostly as contractors in countries known for human rights
abuses and political repression. Under federal law, retired service members must obtain permission before they can accept any compensation from foreign powers, out of concern that the payments could compromise their allegiance to the United States. The U.
S. government withheld virtually all information about the foreign jobs until The Post won a two-year legal battle with the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the State Department.

The latest batch of records shows that Alexander, who led the nation’s largest intelligence agency from 2005 to 2014, reported the most foreign compensation of any retired U.S. service member since 2012. The second-highest earner has been retired Navy
Vice Adm. William Hilarides, 63, who since 2016 has won naval consulting contracts from the government of Australia worth up to $1.6 million, according to figures released last week by the Australian Department of Defense.

Hilarides served as a key adviser to the Australian government over the past 18 months while it finalized a landmark deal with the United States and Britain to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. On Tuesday, Australia announced that it has
tapped Hilarides for a new high-profile assignment: to lead a review of the size and structure of the Royal Australian Navy’s surface fleet.

Hilarides has charged the Australian government $4,000 a day for his consulting services, according to documents that the U.S. Navy recently released in response to The Post’s FOIA lawsuit. He did not respond to a request for comment.

Another retired U.S. admiral who was recently hired by the Australian government charges even more. Retired Adm. John Richardson, who headed the U.S. Navy from 2015 to 2019, receives $5,000 a day as a part-time consultant for the Australians, according
to documents the Pentagon released to Congress last month.

Richardson was hired in November to advise Australian defense officials during their negotiations to acquire top-secret nuclear submarine technology from the United States and Britain. Australian officials said he is working on a year-long contract, with
extensions that the government can renew for two more years.

[More] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/25/retired-nsa-director-won-lucrative-consulting-deals-with-saudis-japan/

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On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 12:20:10 PM UTC-7, VegasJerry wrote:

You thought it was just Treason by Trump’s General Flynn?

“The Post found that more than 500 retired U.S. military personnel — including scores of generals and admirals — had accepted employment
from foreign governments, mostly as contractors in countries known
for human rights abuses and political repression.”
__________________

THE WASHINGTON POST

Retired NSA director won lucrative consulting deals with Saudis, Japan

Retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who led the National Security Agency under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, secured $2 million in consulting deals with foreign governments after leaving office, including a $700,000 contract to advise Saudi

Arabia on cybersecurity after the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, newly released records show.

Alexander’s consulting firm also won a $1.3 million contract from the government of Japan to provide advice on cyber issues, according to additional documents obtained by The Washington Post as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.

Details of those lucrative contracts are among records disclosed by the Pentagon for the first time about retired generals and admirals who have leveraged their military service over the past decade to obtain work from foreign governments. The

disclosures by the Pentagon came in response to The Post’s lawsuit and demands from Congress, which has scheduled a hearing on the issue Wednesday.

In an investigation last year, The Post found that more than 500 retired U.S. military personnel — including scores of generals and admirals — had accepted employment from foreign governments, mostly as contractors in countries known for human

rights abuses and political repression. Under federal law, retired service members must obtain permission before they can accept any compensation from foreign powers, out of concern that the payments could compromise their allegiance to the United States.
The U.S. government withheld virtually all information about the foreign jobs until The Post won a two-year legal battle with the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the State Department.

The latest batch of records shows that Alexander, who led the nation’s largest intelligence agency from 2005 to 2014, reported the most foreign compensation of any retired U.S. service member since 2012. The second-highest earner has been retired

Navy Vice Adm. William Hilarides, 63, who since 2016 has won naval consulting contracts from the government of Australia worth up to $1.6 million, according to figures released last week by the Australian Department of Defense.

Hilarides served as a key adviser to the Australian government over the past 18 months while it finalized a landmark deal with the United States and Britain to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. On Tuesday, Australia announced that it has

tapped Hilarides for a new high-profile assignment: to lead a review of the size and structure of the Royal Australian Navy’s surface fleet.

Hilarides has charged the Australian government $4,000 a day for his consulting services, according to documents that the U.S. Navy recently released in response to The Post’s FOIA lawsuit. He did not respond to a request for comment.

Another retired U.S. admiral who was recently hired by the Australian government charges even more. Retired Adm. John Richardson, who headed the U.S. Navy from 2015 to 2019, receives $5,000 a day as a part-time consultant for the Australians, according

to documents the Pentagon released to Congress last month.

Richardson was hired in November to advise Australian defense officials during their negotiations to acquire top-secret nuclear submarine technology from the United States and Britain. Australian officials said he is working on a year-long contract,

with extensions that the government can renew for two more years.

[More] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/25/retired-nsa-director-won-lucrative-consulting-deals-with-saudis-japan/

WP says 'mostly as contractors in countries known for human rights abuses and political repression' and then their list is Australia, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. This is another example of your knee-jerk belief of anything the 'liberal' news media says.
Australia and Japan are some of our most steadfast allies and neither are 'known for human rights abuses and political repression'.

Saudi Arabia is problematic but the last I checked 1 out of 3 isn't 'most' and show me where anyone in the Biden administration has offered anything but lip service to human rights in Saudi Arabia while providing arms for it's genocide in Yemen. That
retired Army general isn't doing anything which isn't consonant with U.S. foreign policy.

Which isn't to say that I agree with that policy. It's Israel that encourages American policymakers to ignore Saudi crimes and it's Israel that has been trying to whip up conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Israel may have gotten stiffarmed on that
recently and we can thank Israel and it's American lobby for eroding American prestige in the 'Middle East', giving China a chance to insert itself.

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On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 10:14:40 PM UTC-7, risky biz wrote:

On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 12:20:10 PM UTC-7, VegasJerry wrote:

You thought it was just Treason by Trump’s General Flynn?

“The Post found that more than 500 retired U.S. military personnel — including scores of generals and admirals — had accepted employment
from foreign governments, mostly as contractors in countries known
for human rights abuses and political repression.”
__________________

THE WASHINGTON POST

Retired NSA director won lucrative consulting deals with Saudis, Japan

Retired Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who led the National Security Agency under Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, secured $2 million in consulting deals with foreign governments after leaving office, including a $700,000 contract to advise Saudi

Arabia on cybersecurity after the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, newly released records show.

Alexander’s consulting firm also won a $1.3 million contract from the government of Japan to provide advice on cyber issues, according to additional documents obtained by The Washington Post as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.

Details of those lucrative contracts are among records disclosed by the Pentagon for the first time about retired generals and admirals who have leveraged their military service over the past decade to obtain work from foreign governments. The

disclosures by the Pentagon came in response to The Post’s lawsuit and demands from Congress, which has scheduled a hearing on the issue Wednesday.

In an investigation last year, The Post found that more than 500 retired U.S. military personnel — including scores of generals and admirals — had accepted employment from foreign governments, mostly as contractors in countries known for human

rights abuses and political repression. Under federal law, retired service members must obtain permission before they can accept any compensation from foreign powers, out of concern that the payments could compromise their allegiance to the United States.
The U.S. government withheld virtually all information about the foreign jobs until The Post won a two-year legal battle with the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the State Department.

The latest batch of records shows that Alexander, who led the nation’s largest intelligence agency from 2005 to 2014, reported the most foreign compensation of any retired U.S. service member since 2012. The second-highest earner has been retired

Navy Vice Adm. William Hilarides, 63, who since 2016 has won naval consulting contracts from the government of Australia worth up to $1.6 million, according to figures released last week by the Australian Department of Defense.

Hilarides served as a key adviser to the Australian government over the past 18 months while it finalized a landmark deal with the United States and Britain to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. On Tuesday, Australia announced that it has

tapped Hilarides for a new high-profile assignment: to lead a review of the size and structure of the Royal Australian Navy’s surface fleet.

Hilarides has charged the Australian government $4,000 a day for his consulting services, according to documents that the U.S. Navy recently released in response to The Post’s FOIA lawsuit. He did not respond to a request for comment.

Another retired U.S. admiral who was recently hired by the Australian government charges even more. Retired Adm. John Richardson, who headed the U.S. Navy from 2015 to 2019, receives $5,000 a day as a part-time consultant for the Australians,

according to documents the Pentagon released to Congress last month.

Richardson was hired in November to advise Australian defense officials during their negotiations to acquire top-secret nuclear submarine technology from the United States and Britain. Australian officials said he is working on a year-long contract,

with extensions that the government can renew for two more years.

[More] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/25/retired-nsa-director-won-lucrative-consulting-deals-with-saudis-japan/

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WP says 'mostly ...

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As in some....
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... as contractors in countries known for human rights abuses and political repression' and then their list is
Australia, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. This is another example of your knee-jerk belief of anything the 'liberal'
news media says.

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WHA! HA~Ha! "Another example of my "knee-jerk belief" of anything the 'liberal news media says?"

You haven't ** SHOWN ** any! ANY!
You can't even stay on fucking topic.

Remember:

*** KNEW YOU COULDN'T SHOW ? ***
*** KNEW YOU COULDN'T ANSWER? ***

Heh, and you say, "Another example."

**** SHOW US ****
**** SHOW US ***

All you do is CUT & RUN & HIDE.

SHOW, so we can continue to your other dodges... or STFU!

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Australia and Japan are some of our most steadfast allies and neither are 'known for human rights abuses and political repression'.

Saudi Arabia is problematic but the last I checked 1 out of 3 isn't 'most' and show me where anyone in the Biden administration has offered anything but lip service to human rights in Saudi Arabia while providing arms for it's genocide in Yemen. That

retired Army general isn't doing anything which isn't consonant with U.S. foreign policy.

Which isn't to say that I agree with that policy. It's Israel that encourages American policymakers to ignore Saudi crimes and it's Israel that has been trying to whip up conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Israel may have gotten stiffarmed on that

recently and we can thank Israel and it's American lobby for eroding American prestige in the 'Middle East', giving China a chance to insert itself.

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