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Wesley Clark: Continuing to cash in with the military-industrial complex
Retired General Wesley Clark has once again enmeshed himself in the
military-industrial complex. Yesterday, Viaspace, a firm that bills
itself as transforming "proven space and defense technologies from NASA
and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions" for
homeland security and sensor technology, named Clark as a member of its board
of directors. Clark said, "Viaspace is leveraging previous NASA and DOD
investment at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop new generations of energy
and security products." After he announced his candidacy for president
in 2004, Clark resigned from the board of Arkansas-based Acxiom, a data mining
firm. While working for Acxiom, Clark personally lobbied Vice President Dick
Cheney, the CIA, Justice Department, and Transportation Department to sell the
Bush administration on an Acxiom system that would serve as the basis for the
"No Fly List" and other terrorist watch databases. A 2005 privacy
study undertaken of a sample of Acxiom personal data reports found that their
reports were 100 percent inaccurate -- with even the genders of data subjects
being erroneous.
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