"Over the past six years, a quiet revolution has occurred in the intelligence community toward wide-scale outsourcing to corporations and away from the long-established practice of keeping operations in US government hands, with only select outsourcing of certain jobs to independently contracted experts. Key functions of intelligence agencies are now run by private corporations. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) revealed in May that 70 percent of the intelligence budget goes to contractors." The Nation
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Yes. That is true. They hire people like me. The corporations they are talking about are mostly ones that muster retired or former intelligence professionals as individuals or teams to work for the IC.
Why? The IC has expanded massively over the last six years. Retirees are often the best people. They were when they were still working for the government. Washington is an expensive place to live. Like me, many retirees could live more cheaply and probably better somewhere else. This process keeps them in the government's service.
Why would they not just keep working for the government? If you ask that, you have never worked for the government. Honestly, the government pays poorly. It would be easier to go fishing than continue to put up with the bureaucratic bull that the government hands out for peanuts, Consultants don't get treated badly by the bureaucratic "brass." If they are, they go fishing.
The idea that the retirees were somehow responsible for the pre-war mess is "bull." That happened because of the gutlessness of the leaders of the major agencies and the "scourge" wielded by the neocons. pl
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