By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, March 18 – The US Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a sole source contract with Thomson Reuters Special Services in order "to identify and locate illegal aliens that pose a threat to public safety and/or national security."
Since Thomson Reuters holds itself out as independent media, heading the White House Correspondents Association and, at the UN, with a seemingly permanent seat on the board of the dubious UN Correspondents Association (which most recently partnered with Kazakhstan, for example, here), Inner City Press after viewing the Federal Business notice checked to make sure the recipient of this more than $6 millioin ICE contract is, in fact, part of the media company.
Sure enough, this pitch online: "Analyze risk indicators found in public records and open source to help detect, prevent, and respond to insider incidents with the Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) Insider Threat Service. With customized alerts and data delivery unique to your mission, TRSS Insider Threat Service complements your internal evaluation and control programs and provides case analysis with in-depth analytic reports by trained experts."
This is the same Thomson Reuters which for example at the UN has used its insiderstatus to lobby to get smaller investigative Press thrown out. Here was a message with Reuters signature block to the UN's Stephane Dujarric, which Inner City Press not only saw but published, only to have Google grant a frivolous Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint(that an anti-Press email could be copyrighted) and banned from Search. The complainant - now lobbying for Human Rights Watch -Louis Charbonneau's successor has continued the campaign, followingup with a false complaint to UN Security, which subsequently ousted Inner City Press, audio here. Throughout, Reuters to the level of Stephen J. Adler to TR "corporate responsibility and social impact" Rachel Moseley never answered Press questions. What is the impact, then, of this Thomson Reuters contract? We'll have more on this.
