[thinden]

excerpt from the "company's" mission statement:

In-Q-Tel’s Structure and Staffing

Central to the In-Q-Tel business model are speed, agility, market positioning, and leveraging. These attributes, taken together, have helped shape the evolving structure of the Corporation. It is one that intends to emphasize the "virtual" nature of the Corporation while minimizing "brick and mortar" costs -- i.e., it will operate by facilitating data sharing, and decisionmaking via seamless communications using a private network with broadband connectivity to the Agency and its partners, while limiting direct infrastructure investments in laboratories and related facilities by leveraging the facilities of others.

option contracts - an endeavor that meets all the objectives, or simply "put":

1. mimimzes "brick & mortar".
2. facilitated data sharing
3. using private network
4. limiting infrastructure investments
5. leverages the facilities of others.

[rubbertramp]

The CIA works for big corporations not us. They have a budget of billions and billions...yet 9-11 happened. We are just soylent green to them. Why is George Tenet still employed? In any other organization he would be considered bum extroadinaire. In any other organization he would be called into the office on a Thursday afternoon while the employees tittered behind his back.

The answer is that 9-11 was a success for "the evil ones"....to paraphrase George Bush Sr....9-11 was a little necessary unpleasantness for this intelligence war.

I guess my tin foil hat is not protecting me against cootie thoughts.;o(