copeland's cover at this point is that of a booze allen hamilton employee, and that name could be familiar to you because it was also the company employing edward snowden at the time of his revolutions about nsa surveillance. the miles copeland and booze allen's hamilton's involvement 234 -- in cairo suggests that this kind of element or of advertising in public relations, public relations no how is conveyed to the nasa regime through not just copeland, but a friend whose actual background is with the american advertising company, jw thompson, so i sort of shatter in my book madmen on the nile. it's sort of madmen performing secret operations in cairo elements to the story at to point. i won't go into anymore detail about the forms that cia arabism took. you can read about those in the book, but i do want to say a few words about the decline of cia arabism. why it is that the arabists, pro-arab, antizionist agenda ultimately failed because, clearly, it failed. nasa became estranged from the united states and became quite anti-american. after 1956, the u.s. throws its weight not so much beh

booz allen hamilton holding rang the bell to open the bell for 2014. a year-long celebration will honor the country's 100 year anniversary. economists say there are hopeful economic signs for 2014. instruction and manufacturing numbers are taking up, raisin expectations of accelerated growth in the economy. we will talk about that later in the program. first, a new businesess in the district that fits nicelyith the beginning of the year. everyone is talking about getting into shape. atee d.c. opened its doors lalast year. indoor cycling classes for residents. all over the city, if y want to come out. joining us tayre the founders of ride d.c., allison shuffield, rachel goldberg, and zach smith. nicely with a lot of new year'resolutions to get into shape. indoor cling has exploded recently. what isriving the enthusiasm around here? >> i think it is a fun exercise. it takes a lot of what people know. ey are used to sing it on the road. he bring it indoors to an environment that we can control through music, technology, really to maximize the fitness retu

dispatches a cia team led by miles copland to cairo, copland's cover at this point is that of a booze allen hamilton employee, and that name might be familiar to you because it was also the company employing edward snowden. at the time of his revelations about nsa surveillance. and miles copeland's and -- suggests this element of advertising and public relations, american publication relations know-how is conveyed to the nassar reign regime, not just copland but a friend, james eichelberger. his actual background is with the american advertising company, j.w. thompson. so i call these chaps in my book, mad men on the nile, as this sort of mad men performing these secret operations in cairo element to my story at this point. so, i won't go into anymore details about the forms that the cia arabism took. you can read about those in the book. but i do want to say a few words about the decline of cia arabism. why is it that the arabists, proarab, antisighonnist agenda, ultimately failed because clearly failed it did. nassar became quite antiamerican after 1956. the u.s. throws it weight not so much behin

booz allen hamilton is celebrating its 100th anniversary today.this year as it was the business where nsa leaker edward snowden worked. ralph shrader joins us here. tough year. >> edward snowden doesn't represent us. he was just an aberration. >> how do you feel about the way your management team has responded to a major international event and a lot of questions that were asked? >> i think we're prepared for that. we're very resilient, we have a very veteran, strong management team that's learned how to work our way through. one. things we use as our mantra is "we're ready for what's next." >> the "new york times" had an editorial yesterday in which they said edward snowden should be granted clemency. how do you feel about that? >> i think it's up to others to have that debate. the whole discussion and issue around privacy is an issue that's a healthy debate in the country and i'm willing to hear the debate play out. i think others need to make the decision about what's the best approach to him. >> have you seen any material impact on the bottom

rarely cross identified as the employees of a privatized if of a private defense contractor booz allen hamilton that at one time was owned by the carlyle group at one time was own in part by the bin laden family and you know you see absolutely no coverage of that that seventy percent of the n.s.a.'s budget is big corporations in some cases corporations with foreign ownership or partial foreign ownership that that have a lobbyist in washington d.c. that are that are lobbying for more you know more business for their corporations it's like with the private prison industry you know it's something that should be the commons that should be you know i mean we all want good spies right you know competent spies the do we want seventy percent of the budget to just be basically enriching fat cats that's something that the mainstream media isn't good at but i saw in an independent media outlets there was a lot of scrutiny after snowden surface of who are these companies that are making so much money from surveillance and as you say seventy to eighty percent of the intelligence budget it's money from we th