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In recent years, the phrase "public-private partnership" has come into vogue as a description of nominally private corporate concerns that work intimately with the federal government. In such an arrangement, which is often described as "corporatism," government--which has the power to tax, regulate, subsidize, control, and ultimately to destroy--is invariably the senior partner. In Mussolini's Italy, such "partnerships" were called "consortia," and they provided the economic foundation for the Fascist regime.
The ongoing "war on terrorism" has accelerated and amplified a previously existing trend toward what could be called "cyber-corporatism." In-Q-tel, a "venture capitalist" outfit started by the CIA in 1999 to "accelerate the development of commercial technologies for intelligence gathering," offers a good case in point. On January 4, Amit Yoran, former chief of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was appointed CEO of In-Q-tel.
After graduating from West Point, Yoran was permitted by the Pentagon to forgo his military service commitment in order to develop ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Cyber-corporatism.(INSIDER REPORT)