Markle Foundation:The Task Force
on Security in the Information Age
The Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information
Age is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit formed in 2002 "to determine how best to
make information discoverable and accessible to the right officials at the
right time to enable improved decision making with regard to major security
threats against our nation.
Although the Markle Foundation
Task Force claims that its purpose is to advance national security by promoting
greater emphasis on information-sharing within government, it has been accused
of being a covert lobbying group devoted to securing the transfer of taxpayer
money to private information technology corporations.
Criticism
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the
Markle Foundation is supposedly prohibited from lobbying government officials.
Nonetheless, it has been accussed of "actively and enthusiastically
lobbying for more government spending on information technology. . . the
increased expenditures and bureaucratic “reforms” advocated by the Markle Task
Force are extremely beneficial to private contractors, which happen to be the
very corporations and private interests represented in various official
capacities by Task Force members and the Markle board of directors.
Markle Foundation Co-Chair Zoe Baird-- who first became famous
after her nomination for President Bill Clinton's U.S. Attorney General was
withdrawn amidst disclosures that she employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny
and failed to pay Social Security taxes-- has also been accused of having a
conflict of interest by sitting on the board of Convergys Corporation, which
has a General Services Administration
(GSA) contract for homeland security. . (read more here). A 2002 New York Times article also criticized Baird.
Markle Task Force on National Security in
the Information Age
Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age is a
national-security project for the Markle
Foundation.
Note: R. Rand Beers is
a member of the Markle Task Force on
National Security in the Information Age, and the Homeland Security under
secretary for the Barack Obama
administration.
Ashton B. Carter
is the defense acquisitions czar for the Barack
Obama administration, and a member of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
Mary
DeRosa was the deputy counsel to the president for national security
affairs for the Barack Obama
administration, and is a member of the Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is the attorney general for the Barack
Obama administration, a member of the Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and was a board
member for the American Constitution
Society.
John
Gage is a member of the Markle Task
Force on National Security in the Information Age, a director at the Markle Foundation, and was a partner at
the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
James L. Barksdale
is a member of the Markle Task Force on
National Security in the Information Age, and a strategic limited partner
at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Colin
L. Powell is a strategic limited partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
John
A. Gordon is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and a member of the Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
Arnold
Kanter is a member of the Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and was a director
at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
Judith A. Miller
is a member of the Markle Task Force on
National Security in the Information Age, and a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Wesley
K. Clark is a member of the Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and a director at
the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
James B.
Steinberg is a member of the Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and a director at
the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society, the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and the Center for American Progress.
Morton H. Halperin
is a senior adviser for the Open Society
Foundations, a member of the Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and was a senior
fellow at the Center for American
Progress.
George
Soros was a supporter for the Center
for American Progress, is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board
member for the International Crisis
Group, and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), Human Rights First, the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank), the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the International
Rescue Committee.
Wesley
K. Clark is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and was the supreme allied commander in Europe,
for NATO.
Ivo
H. Daalder is the U.S.
permanent representative for NATO,
and was a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
James B.
Steinberg was a director, foreign policy studies for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the
deputy secretary of state for the Barack
Obama administration, is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and a member of the
Markle Task Force on National Security
in the Information Age.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory
Please note: This link for the
members of the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.
Robert S. Osborne
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and the EVP & general counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton.
Booz Allen
Hamilton is a contractor for the National
Security Agency (NSA).
Richard Wilhelm
was the information warfare director for the National Security Agency (NSA), is the EVP for Booz Allen Hamilton, and a member of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age is a
national-security project for the Markle
Foundation.
Zoe
Baird is the president of the Markle
Foundation, a member of the Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Suzanne Nora
Johnson is trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a director at the Markle Foundation.
Harold
H. Koh was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director at Human Rights First, the State Department legal adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and his
brother is Howard K. Koh.
Lewis
B. Kaden is a director at Human
Rights First, and a director at the Markle
Foundation.
Howard
K. Koh is Harold H. Koh’s
brother, and is the assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the Barack Obama administration.
Margaret A.
Hamburg was the assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a
member of the Markle Task Force on
National Security in the Information Age, and the VP for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director
at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
William H.
Donaldson is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Henrietta
Holsman Fore is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a
member of the Belizean Grove.
Lurita Alexis
Doan is a member of the Belizean
Grove, and was an administrator for the General Services Administration.
Belizean_Grove
is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
Henry A. Kissinger was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Colin
L. Powell is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), an
overseer at the International Rescue Committee, the strategic limited
partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield
& Byers, and was a director at the United
Negro College Fund.
James L. Barksdale
is a strategic limited partner at Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a member of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
Linda Johnson
Rice is a director at the United
Negro College Fund, a friend of Valerie
B. Jarrett, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a friend of Linda Johnson Rice, a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration.
Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL)
mayor, was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
William
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Robert S. Osborne
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and the EVP & general counsel for Booz Allen Hamilton.
Booz Allen
Hamilton is a contractor for the National
Security Agency (NSA).
Richard Wilhelm
was the information warfare director for the National Security Agency (NSA), is the EVP for Booz Allen Hamilton, and a member of the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
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