How global corporations can hack anyone's computers for $2.5 million

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25. Is the election fraud stuff converging with the surveillance stuff?

You're a long-time election integrity guy. Jill Simpson's name is most familiar from her allegations of election theft -- and SmarTech is part of that pattern as well. But this Endgame stuff seems more related to surveillance, the NSA, and the CIA. Do you see it as having implications for elections, as well, or are the connections on a deeper level?

The further I read in this pdf about Endgame, the more thoroughly spooked-up it seems. In-Q-Tel has been described as funding "startup companies whose technologies the CIA might someday want to buy." Or as it says on an old (and no longer available) In-Q-Tel "About" page, "Chartered in 1999 as a private, independent, nonprofit corporation, In-Q-Tel is an evolving blend of corporate strategic venture capital, business, nonprofit and government R&D models. To achieve its mission of identifying and delivering new technologies to the CIA and Intelligence Community (IC), In-Q-Tel borrows key elements from each model that enable it to link the IC to innovation in the commercial market, and back again."

Or this, from a 2005 Washington Post article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401108.html): "In the five years since it began active operations as the "venture capital arm" of the CIA, In-Q-Tel's reach and activities have become vast for so small an operation. It has invested in more than 75 companies and delivered more than 100 technologies to the CIA, most of which otherwise would never have been considered by the intelligence agency. Virtually any U.S. entrepreneur, inventor or research scientist working on ways to analyze data has probably received a phone call from In-Q-Tel or at least been Googled by its staff of technology-watchers."

And Ken Minihan, who's on the Endgame board, succeeded Mike McConnell as NSA director in the middle 90's, at exactly the point when the NSA was first getting into domestic telecom and internet surveillance. He later became partners with former CIA director James Woolsey in Paladin Capital Group -- a private equity investment firm which formed the Paladin Capital Homeland Security Fund.three months after 9/11 to invest in homeland security firms.

So Endgame may or may not be exactly what it claims to be -- but it's certainly no fly-by-night boondoggle. It sounds dead serious. Is the real "endgame" to know everything about everybody and have complete access to it at all times?