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| Chelsea's ‘Best Friend' Wins $11 Mil In Defense Contracts With No Clearance |
| 2017-09-29 |
| [Daily Caller] A company whose president is "best friends" with Chelsea Clinton received more than $11 million in contracts over the last decade from a highly secretive Department of Defense think tank, but to date, the group lacks official federal approval to handle classified materials, according to sensitive documents TheDCNF was allowed to review. Jacqueline Newmyer, the president of a company called the Long Term Strategy Group, has over the last 10 years received numerous Defense Department contracts from a secretive think tank called Office of Net Assessment. The Office of Net Assessment is so sensitive, the specialized think tank is housed in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and reports directly to the secretary. To date, the Long Term Strategy Group has received $11.2 million in contracts, according to USAspending,gov, a government database of federal contracts. But after winning a decade of contracts from the Office of Net Assessment, the federal agency is only now in the process of granting clearance to the company. Long Term Strategy Group never operated a secure room on their premises to handle classified materials, according to the Defense Security Service, a federal agency that approves secure rooms inside private sector firms. Long Term Strategy Group operates offices in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Mass. "The Long Term Strategy Group is currently in process for a facility clearance with the Defense Security Service," the agency informed TheDCNF in an email. Newmyer declined to address her company’s lack of facilities to handle classified material. "With regard to your questions about the status of our facilities, those are best directed to the US government, which has authority over such matters," she wrote in an email to TheDCNF. She also declined to say whether her company is footing the bill for the new secure facility, or if the taxpayers are footing the bill through the Office of Net Assessment. Adam Lovinger, a whistleblower and 12-year Office of Net Assessment (ONA) veteran, has repeatedly warned ONA’s leadership they faced risks by relying on outside contractors as well as the problem of cronyism and a growing "revolving door" policy, where ONA employees would leave the defense think tank and join private contractors to do the same work. Washingtonian: Backstory on the Jacqueline Newmyer security clearance issue. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Did the Awans do their IT? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-09-29 14:47 |
| #4 There is a lot of stuff you can do for the DoD that doesn't require clearances. But the fact they were so close to the Clintons during Hill's time at state should be looked at very closely. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-09-29 11:57 |
| #3 My Mother never told me we needed security! - Chelsea |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-09-29 11:35 |
| #2 Sounds like a good job for Mueller once he gets through with the Russian collusion matter. |
| Posted by: jpal 2017-09-29 10:59 |
| #1 It's good to have friends in high places. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-09-29 10:05 |