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Just a revisit on Brennan''s former co. And the Brits due to the companies sudden seizure by creditors after election and resignations (expected after a failure but wholesale in this case)
https://www.cnbc.com/id/100440555
The administration official noted that the initial acquisition of Brennan's company by Global Strategy Group in 2007 was reviewed and approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a body set up to scrutinize foreign acquisitions of sensitive American firms and prevent those that might transfer valuable technology.
A spokesperson for another successor corporation to The Analysis Corporation– a spin-off entity that is now known as Sotera Defense Solutions – said the firm worked with the Department of Defense's Defense Security Service to implement a Special Security Agreement to establish a strict set of controls designed to protect U.S. national security interests in a foreign owned company.
"For the duration of our ownership by Global Strategies Group, the U.S. portions of the business … never had any contracts with any foreign entities or governments by itself or through any parent company or partner," said Lauren Peduzzi, the director of communications for Sotera Defense Solutions. "Throughout our history, Sotera Defense Solutions has been committed to a culture of ethics and integrity in conducting its business as a responsible member of the national security community."
The idea of working for the Chinese and Americans at the same time may have been unworkable from the start, although Global Strategies Group won at least one security contract with the China National Petroleum Corporation, sources familiar with the company said. "It was all a massive conflict of interest, and it was all a bit weird," a former employee said. "I believe the Chinese thought we were working for the CIA." Former employees said the Global Strategies Group office in Beijing was closed several years later. The firm's website says the company today maintains offices in Tokyo, Singapore and Kabul as well as in the Middle East, Africa and North America.
Brennan himself left the firm the same year – taking a job in the Obama administration in soon after the new president's election in January of 2009. On Thursday the Senate Intelligence Committee will consider his nomination to be Director of the CIA. If he's confirmed, Brennan will complete a full turn through the private intelligence revolving door – and he will have oversight over contracts to companies very much like the one he used to work for.