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Outsourced Intelligence
A fascinating article from The Salon, (you may need to click through an ad to see it.) regarding the increasing reliance on the $42 billion intelligence contractor industry by the US military.
The U.S. government now outsources a vast portion of its spying operations to private firms—with zero public accountability.
June 1, 2007 | More than five years into the global “war on terror,” spying has become one of the fastest-growing private industries in the United States. The federal government relies more than ever on outsourcing for some of its most sensitive work, though it has kept details about its use of private contractors a closely guarded secret. Intelligence experts, and even the government itself, have warned of a critical lack of oversight for the booming intelligence business.
Link/File: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/01/intel_contractors/
Monday, 11 June 2007 | Permanent link to this article | ← Back to news archive
