Chelsea Clinton’s ‘Best Friend’s’ Defense Company Got $11 Mil In Contracts

[GURPS]

EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Clinton’s ‘Best Friend’s’ Defense Company Got $11 Mil In Contracts But Doesn’t Have Federal Security Clearance


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 Defense Department think tank, but to date, the group lacks official federal approval to handle classified materials, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
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But after winning a decade of contracts from ONA, only now is the federal agency in the process of granting clearance to the company. LTSG 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. LTSG 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 said 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 ONA.

 

[Chris0nllyn]

So?

 

[Clem72]

Having classified storage is not the same as having people with clearances. And classified storage is expensive to certify and maintain. So unless you need it, which you often don't with CSS work (like a think take would be), then why would you bother?

 

[GURPS]

So?

#becauseClinton

 

[GURPS]

.... then why would you bother?

it was required by the contract

 

[Clem72]

it was required by the contract

I think you missed the intent of my question. Why would you bother when it isn't required, as is implied by this article (oh no, they contracted for years without a facility clearance!!). Obviously it is required now, which is why they are doing it.

 

[GURPS]

Documents: Hillary Clinton Helped Friend of Chelsea Gain Government Contracts


Chelsea Clinton, the vice chair of The Clinton Foundation, has called Deal her best friend. Cronyism, using senior positions to help family or friends, is not illegal, but in this case, it appears federal ethics rules could have been violated, creating apparent conflicts of interest, the Free Beacon reported.

The Code of Federal Ethics says government employees "shall act impartially and not give preferential treatment to any private organization or individual." Pentagon ethics guidelines call for avoiding actions that might seem like conflicts of interest.

The email exchanges with Deal between 2009 and 2011 were among thousands of private emails made public by the State Department under pressure from Congress and the public interest law firm Judicial Watch.

Hillary Clinton and her aides discussed classified information on an unsecure private email server while she was secretary of state, an FBI investigation concluded in July. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced in July that Mrs. Clinton would not be charged.

 

[GURPS]

Why would you bother when it isn't required, as is implied by this article (oh no, they contracted for years without a facility clearance!!). Obviously it is required now, which is why they are doing it.

the article doesn't really say if it was required or not ....
but it seems to me, if you are doing work for such a sensitive group "Office of Net Assessment" your employees would all be cleared at some level and your facilities would be secure

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.

Newmyers background isn't to up to date for someone managing a company writing reports on the middle east ...

Since serving as president of Long Term Strategy Group, Newmyer has participated in many prestigious bodies on national security, and she was enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

But her Ph.D. had little to do with today’s international conflicts or in contemporary military strategy. Her dissertation was on “a comparison of seminal works on strategy and statecraft from ancient China, the medieval Middle East, and early modern Europe,” according to a Harvard profile of her.