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20 April 2007
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:38:02 -0400 To: Recipient list suppressed:; From: "James M. Atkinson" <jmatk[at]tscm.com> Subject: Ships that don't float, and secret communications systems that are not secure As a few of you know, I was engaged as an independent expert witness in a subject matter in which I have a considerable about of expertise. I donated many hundreds of hours pouring over huge numbers of documents and was able to prove that the Coast Guard screwed up bad, and I means really bad, and that Lockheed Martin was (shall we say, extraordinarily evasive). Bottom line, the Coast Guard was asleep, they screwed up big time, the contractor knew they were asleep, so they proceeded to rape the Coast Guard... A whistleblower at Lockheed came forward (no, it wasn't me), the DHS-OIG investigated and found nothing, the DOJ investigated and uh... let just say that we will hear more about that later. Anyway, I figured out who they were pulling off the scam, and wrote a report, and then the report came out early this week (for the hearing mid week) the Coast Guard does an "oh-sh*t... we have been caught" and starts scrambling to do something ... anything between last week and the hearing date to show they are trying to be proactive (hence then announcing that they just cancelled the Lockheed Contract). Lockheed on the other hand is screwed, and screwed bad. During the hearing they (as a company, and four of their senior executives) got caught dead committing perjury ... and I mean they got caught dead. I have been given full blessings by Congress to publish any of the following, and I was in fact told (by the Committee) that I should disseminate this report and resulting hearing transcripts as we have open government in this county, and screw ups of this magnitude need to be brought to the public's attention so that the matter can be corrected with all due oversight. I would note that there are several strange numbers in the report, this is because the CG was playing games with the paperwork, and they would send three copies of the same document, but with two different set of numbers. It wasn't until after the written report came out that the "huge amount of really ugly truth" came out, and was presented in the oral testimony. All I could do was take the numbers they gave up, and put them in the report, Ohhh.... this is a ugly, scathing, nasty, nasty report. Also, time was at a premium, I donated all my time, and refused to take a dime for anything, and only asked that they cover my travel and hotel. So if you see a typo, or you don't like the formatting, just remember that I may not have the finest of writing skills, my grammar may suck, and I may be a bit of an abrasive jerk at times, but I have my country's best interests at heart and I will defend her to my last breath. It didn't help that the Coast Guard was fighting tooth and nail every step along the way, and it was an uphill battle to get even the slightest amount of information, and then came to find out they knew they screwed up, and were obstructing a Congressional Investigation... Congress is wicked pissed over this right now. You will probably want to be sitting down when you read the report.... it is an ugly truth to be told. During the hearing (I will post the transcript later) the Coast Guard basically said that they have no COMSEC, no TSCM, no TEMPEST protection, and that the ships don't float, and that they have been leaking classified information all over the place. My initial report was like 2000+ pages, but we had to pare it down to it current size to make it easier to distribute. Read from page 1 to page 39 to get a good summary, but the transcripts of the oral testimony went on for over 8 hours (likely 1000's pages of really ugly stuff, but ugly stuff that we need to know about), and we came within two minutes of setting a Congressional record for the length of a hearing (I was in the hearing until 11:30 PM, argh). Take a look at the following links: http://transportation.house.gov/Media/File/Full%20Committee/20070418PM/SSM_4-18-07.pdf http://transportation.house.gov/Media/File/Full%20Committee/20070418PM/James%20Atkinson%20Testimony.pdf There is a second and third set of documents that I will post in a few days. It is interesting reading, and most of you will love the technical stuff in the first 15 pages. When I gave my testimony, it was some seriously intense hell-fire, brimstone, Old Testament kind of stuff. -jma ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World Class, Professional, Ethical, and Competent Bug Sweeps, and Wiretap Detection using Sophisticated Laboratory Grade Test Equipment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 Web: http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 E-mail: mailto:jmatk[at]tscm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We perform bug sweeps like it's a full contact sport, we take no prisoners, and we give no quarter. Our goal is to simply, and completely stop the spy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------