Yesterday I noted that when DOGE showed up on Monday at the USIP offices, they came with what appeared to be private security in addition to FBI agents. It turns out that those private security people were USIP’s own security contractors, only they’d switched sides to DOGE. That contractor is called “Inter-Con.” Realizing that DOGE might try to suborn Inter-Con, the USIP’s head of security had already canceled Inter-Con’s contract and that cancelation had been acknowledged.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    suborn:
    transitive verb
    1 : to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing
    2 : to induce to commit perjury
    also : to obtain (perjured testimony) from a witness

    Did not know that word.

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    Ah. Sounds like each of those security people are guilty of treason against the US government.

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    Derick Hanna, Vice President of Inter-Con (USIP’s security contractor) , told O’Brien that “DOGE threatened to cancel every federal contract Inter-Con held if they did not come to the USIP building and let Kenneth Jackson [the purported new head of the Institute] inside.”

    How big a threat was that? According to USASpending, Inter-Con has $209 million in government contractors currently.