



[This portion taken from an e-mail I wrote to two editors the other day; videos more recent, include new info and more angles]

There's a story kind of struggling for air, on a self-asserted CCTV

"data-mining" capability called Trapwire - erroneous/incredibly

incomplete coverage in NYT, better in coverage by NBC and Daily Caller

and couple others I was quoted in last night, few very informative

pieces in less-exposed outlets. My group Project PM as well as

Wikileaks (which is being covered ATM only in context of Assange

troubles, which are indeed key) and Telecomix have been working on it

for a week now, mostly last 48 hours, based on the original materials,

which stem from the 5.2 million Stratfor e-mails taken by Anon and now

being distributed in groups by topic by volunteers at Wikileaks who

have access to the entire set.

Meanwhile, a syndicated article that appeared on the 13th

in at least six major Australian outlets including Sydney Herald was

entirely pulled from all of them next day, and the much-delayed

explanation (which apparently appeared in Herald print today, but not

anywhere at all online, other than a vague and somewhat odd Tweet by

one of the two authors who's also an editor, that Cubic Corporation -

which acquired Abraxas, parent in turn of spin-off Abraxas

Applications - made some sort of complaint to the effect that it

itself is not really "connected" to Trapwire since, apparently, it was

developed, marketed, and then put into motion via the spin-off two

years before Cubic felt inclined to purchase Abraxas.

That Cubic

managed to hide any association with another, less official "spin-off"

of Abraxas, Ntrepid - with which Abraxas shares key board members and

draws upon capabilities developed/maintained by Anonymizer, which

Abraxas bought shortly before its own purchase by Cubic, and which

seems to have been created entirely to win (which it did) a bid for

persona management software (fake online people) put out by USAF in

2010 and later confirmed by CENTCOM spokesman to be in operation at

McDill and Kabul, under use of "multinational forces" and under

Earnest Voice. When this first came out of the HBGary e-mails that my

other "associates" seized from them in early 2011 (after they made

threatening remarks to FT about allegedly having identified our

"lieutenants" and our non-existent "co-founder and leader" and

planning to talk to FBI, which was itself very bizarre), we did a lot

of "media outreach" on the issue, and then when two very good

colleagues of mine from The Guardian did a report on it, they never

discovered that Ntrepid had any connection to Cubic at all, which

wasn't mentioned in the piece. Six months later one of my guys at PM

finally found a 2010 Cubic tax filing that showed Ntrepid, like

Abraxas, is "wholly owned" by Cubic.

So now that's at least out there - at least to those who happen to read our niche wiki on intelligence contracting affairs. A few reporters and other folks with megaphones or access, but most not too regularly.

Despite the "question" of whether Cubic has

anything to do with the direction of Trapwire as it has with at least

other, even less "official" spin-offs of Abraxas (as proven by merger

records and a couple other documents pulled up just in last few days),

and insomuch as that one of those even notes Cubic's expected

"synergies" from Abraxas merger - and of course this question is

allegedly the reason why an article was disappeared and not edited or

corrected or even initially acknowledged and even still not

acknowledged in any way that the majority who read the now-gone story

online can see it for themselves, NYT does not mention Cubic at all in

its piece yesterday, which claims fears of it are "wildly exaggerated"

based on what reporter was told by DHS officials who are unnamed and

not quoted. Here:

http://www.nytimes.com/...

In two years of following this issue closely and sometimes being

directly involved, I have never seen anything like this. At the least,

I hope this will give you some insight into how ill-equipped the U.S.

media in particular has been to cover this trillion-dollar topic in

almost any meaningful way, and want to thank you again for what

Businessweek has done and for allowing someone with my views to take

part in your very timely panel last month. Thanks, and hope all is

well. Here is info we've compiled, plus samples of insightful coverage

of Trapwire and our work on it, much from last 24 hours:

http://wiki.echelon2.org/...

http://wiki.echelon2.org/...

http://barrettbrown.blogspot.com/...

(a partly silly piece I wrote last night that nonetheless includes

much of the new documentation, tax records, etc)

http://dailycaller.com/...

Vaguely corrupt marketing partnership between the ex-State Department

types and self-described "intel analysts" at Stratfor and Trapwire

itself, which is supposed not to have any similar or more complex

dealings with its ultimate owner unlike other sub-subsidies such as

Ntrepid: http://www.wired.com/...