PIERRE OMIDYAR / BOOZ ALLEN HAWAII / SNOWDENS BOSS (PART 1)

https://pando.com/2015/10/16/pierre-omidyar-taps-edward-snowdens-former-boss-be-omidyar-fellow/

October 16, 2015

Booz Allen, “the world’s most profitable spy organization,” is one of the NSA’s leading private contractors; the director of US intelligence, James Clapper, was a Booz Allen executive, and former NSA director Michael McConnell is now a Booz Allen VP.

In other words, if you consider yourself an Edward Snowden supporter in any way, Booz Allen is the enemy.

So it may come as a surprise that billionaire Pierre Omidyar — publisher of The Intercept, which owns the only complete cache of Snowden’s NSA secrets; financier of the Freedom of The Press Foundation, where Snowden serves on the board of directors — has just selected one of Snowden’s former bosses at Booz Allen’s Hawaii branch to join the Omidyar Fellows program.

His name is Robert Lietzke, and he’s a “principal” at Booz Allen’s Hawaii branch, where he’s worked for over 15 years. In 2008, Lietzke was reported in the local Hawaiian press as one of “three principals [running] day to day operations” at Booz Allen’s Hawaii branch. Lietzke’s specialty at Booz is information systems and technology, Snowden’s field. Before he joined Booz Allen, Lietzke was a computer systems officer in the US Air Force from 1989 through 1999.

After joining Booz’s Hawaii branch, Lietzke worked “support” for the US Pacific Command, headquartered outside of Honolulu, on protecting critical infrastructure and network operations.

Omidyar Fellows: “Once a Fellow, Always a Fellow”

Every year since 2012, Hawaii’s richest resident, Pierre Omidyar, selects around a dozen people from Hawaii’s business, nonprofit, and government sectors to become Omidyar Fellows and form a kind of unofficial club of Hawaii’s future leaders.

OBAMA WHITEHOUSE SEASON PASS HOLDER (PART 2)

https://pando.com/2014/03/23/revealed-visitor-logs-show-full-extent-of-pierre-and-pamela-omidyars-cozy-white-house-ties/

After all, according to records made available under Obama's 2009 transparency commitment, Omidyar has visited the Obama White House at least half a dozen times since 2009. During the same period, his wife, Pamela Omidyar, who heads Omidyar Network, has visited 1600 Pennsylvania Ave at least four times, while Omidyar Network’s managing partner, Matthew Bannick, has visited a further three. In all, senior Omidyar Network officials made at least 13 visits to the White House between 2009-2013. (In fact the logs indicate that, on several occasions, Omidyar visited the White House more than once in the same day. To avoid unfairly inflating the numbers, I’ve removed same-day duplicates from all the totals cited in this article.)

To put the numbers in perspective, Omidyar’s six visits compare to four visits during the same period by NBCUniversal chief Stephen Burke, two by Fox News boss Roger Ailes, two by MSNBC’s Phil Griffin, one by New York Times owner Arthur O Sulzberger, and one each by Dow Jones’ Robert Thompson, Gannett/USA Today’s Gracia Martore and Omidyar’s fellow tech billionaire turned media owner, Jeff Bezos.

In fact Pando could only find three media titans who had earned more White House visitor loyalty points than Omidyar: CNN’s Jeffrey Zucker (7), former Post owner Donald Graham (9) and queen of all media, Arianna Huffington (11). According to records, neither The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown or Barry Diller were invited at all — nor, by the way, was Rupert Murdoch.

Even compared to other major tech leaders, Omidyar is a special case. LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman visited the White House twice during the same period, as did Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. Omidyar also beat out Marissa Mayer (5), Eric Schmidt (5), John Doerr (4), Dick Costolo (3), Evan Williams (3), Jack Dorsey (2), Larry Ellison (1) and poor old Reed Hastings who wasn't invited at all, until this week. According to records, other people not important enough to make it through the door include Pando investors Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel.

CONNECTION TO ROMNEY & RUBIO & MCMULLIN (PART 3) repost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanhee_Chen

Chen is most well known for his role as a policy adviser and counselor to top Republican politicians and office holders. He was the policy director for the 2012 Mitt Romney presidential campaign and Romney's chief policy adviser. He has been described as the "orchestra leader" behind the Romney 2012 campaign. Romney confidante Beth Myers described Chen as the person Romney relied on "entirely" for policy direction. Chen was also a senior adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Marco Rubio

He also serves on the National Advisory Committee of the Democracy Fund, a nonprofit established by Pierre Omidyar

https://www.influencewatch.org/person/pierre-omidyar/

Pierre Omidyar is the founder of the multinational e-commerce corporation eBay, a philanthropist, and a financier of left-wing organizations, including investigative journalism projects. Omidyar is a funder of left-wing politics; as such, he gave $100,000 to the NeverTrump PAC, a group opposed to 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

https://democracyfundvoice.org/who-we-are/

Democracy Fund Voice is solely funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam.

https://democracyfundvoice.org/stand-up-republic/

Democracy Fund Voice approved a grant to Stand Up Republic in the amount of up to $25o,000 in 2017.

https://standuprepublicfoundation.com/about-us

Stand Up Republic Foundation was founded in 2017 by Evan McMullin and Mindy Finn to address the growing acceptance of autocratic rule in America.