The rabbit hole....

In reading about our friend Parney, I came across this tidbit:

Before he joined LLNL, Dr. Albright served from August 2005 to November 2009 as president and vice chairman of the board of Civitas Group, LLC. He led the analytic team in support of the first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, and in addition, led the development and publication of a comprehensive Biodefense Net Assessment under DHS sponsorship.

So who or what is the Civitas Group, LLC? Good question. They don't seem to have a website, but they used to, http://www.civitasgroup.com/. That domain is now for sale, but their old site can be found on the Wayback machine.

There's also this page that documents the origins of Civitas. From that page:

Civitas Group, LLC, a "new consulting firm that will offer a full range of advisory services to private sector and government clients in the homeland security field," was launched on July 17, 2003. "Civitas is a joint venture between Stonebridge International LLC and BKSH & Associates, a WPP operating company. ... Civitas will offer a spectrum of services including strategic business guidance, facilitation of business partnerships, issue monitoring, executive recruitment, advocacy as well as government and corporate marketing and procurement assistance. ... Civitas also has established a strategic partnership with Good Harbor Consulting, LLC." [1]

Here is the stonebridge site: http://www.stonebridge-international.com/
But it's on the way back machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20060203034302/http://www.stonebridge-international.com/

Here is the good harbor site: https://www.goodharbor.net/index.html
But here it is on the way back machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20040402064202/http://www.goodharbor.net/index.html

These are not fly-by-night people. They tell presidents what to do and watch over the development of world changing technologies. So why are their websites ghosts?

It appears BKSH has been merged into https://bcw-global.com/, which looks like a connected rabbit hole of its own.

The point is, nobody has heard of these people or organizations, but these are the forces ruling the world. They're too smart to be in the limelight. But the politicians work for them, not us.