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LOUIS FREEH


After serving just six months under Bush, this Clinton appointee resigned as FBI director in the wake of the Robert Hanssen espionage kerfuffle. He now shills for L-1 Identity Solutions, makers of advanced facial recognition and retina scanning gadgetry. In their own words, L-1's consultants have their fingers in all sorts of pies, "from the situation rooms of Washington, D.C., to the back alleys of the Third World."

PROGNOSIS: Corporate revenue nearly tripled in 2006; Tenet's also on the board. Who says the FBI and CIA can't work together?

TICKER: ID

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WAYNE DOWNING


After leaving his post as Deputy National Security Advisor in 2002, Downing served his second stint on the board of Metal Storm, a small Aussie outfit that's invented an electronic supergun capable of firing one million rounds per minute (seriously). It's particularly good at vaporizing things—vehicles or people, for instance.
PROGNOSIS: The market for killing machines is highly volatile, but so is Iran.
TICKER: MTSX