From 2010 until January this year, Republican Scott Brown represented the people of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate. Now, in his post-government career, Brown is working with a company that has sold weapons to Bahrain, a country where the regime has been engaged in a brutal crackdown against its citizens for more than two years.On Sept. 9, Florida-based Global Digital Solutions, Inc. announced Brown would be joining its “advisory board” where he would “provide advice and guidance to the GDSI executive leadership team” about “the company’s overall global strategy” as well as a planned merger with a firm called Airtronic USA, Inc. That merger, which will be the focus of Brown’s work, took GDSI from a company that, as of May, billed itself as “specializing in wireless data communications” into the world of international arms dealing.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=203960