Trapwire Stratfor Email 19

Date 	2010-07-16 21:31:26
From 	burton@stratfor.com
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A flurry of press today (Friday) with CNN, Laredo Morning Times and
Reuters over MX narco
violence that stretches from Juarez to NL. The tactical team did a very
good job of cutting through the fog to determine whether or not a VBIED
detonated in Juarez. Job well done to Alex and The Stick.

My book is done and I'm plodding through edit changes from the
publisher. I'm hopeful to be done very shortly and I thank you for your
patience.

Worked with Darryl on new office security plans; met with the new
security committee to discuss George's direction on better OPSEC.
Shared space in DC is an issue, but one that we have to deal with.

We need ALL execs to get PGP.

On the intel front, Russian spies, the Comrade J death and fall-out
drove a fair amount of work this week.

Met with Grant, Kyle, Stick and Jenna to discuss new business ideas or
portals for security and terrorism. Fruitful discussion, I believe.

Spoke to my high school at Walmart this week. Interesting factoid, WM
out-sourced $20 BILLION to vendors (not suppliers) last year. Yes,
billion, not millions. His job is to figure out a way to reduce that
figure. Deloitte got the lions share of the $20 BILLION.

Korena and I met w/Mike Rosen, a friend of mine and Congressman McCaul's
gatekeeper about getting the Republicans (or at least McCaul) to buy a
portal.

TrapWire for the Great State of Texas is a go. Cash should begin to
flow to Abraxas within 10 days. As many of you old-timers know, we
arranged to get a cut. I think the first dump is $250,000 to Abraxas,
with an annual renewal of $150,000 per year for the TrapWire license.
The point man for the project worked directly for me at DPS. Abraxas
has done work already pro-bono as good will. TrapWire may be the most
successful invention on the GWOT since 9-11. I knew these hacks when
they were GS-12's at the CIA. God Bless America. Now they have EVERY
major HVT in CONUS, the UK, Canada, Vegas, Los Angeles, NYC as clients.