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HipChick

(25,485 posts) Sun Jun 9, 2013, 05:00 PM Jun 2013

We don't trust private contractors to operate metal detectors at airports

but we do trust them to run NSA surveillance programs and access to data? um...ok..

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We don't trust private contractors to operate metal detectors at airports (Original Post) HipChick Jun 2013 OP

Totally different, one is looking at your naughty bits, the other at your naughty bytes n/t Fumesucker Jun 2013 #1

DUzy NV Whino Jun 2013 #3

give the gov't some plausible deniability, no? boston bean Jun 2013 #2

They have been outsourcing for years. roamer65 Jun 2013 #4

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

1. Totally different, one is looking at your naughty bits, the other at your naughty bytes n/t

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Sun Jun 9, 2013, 05:01 PM

Jun 2013

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)

3. DUzy

Reply to Fumesucker (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 9, 2013, 06:48 PM

Jun 2013

boston bean

(36,221 posts)

2. give the gov't some plausible deniability, no?

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Sun Jun 9, 2013, 05:02 PM

Jun 2013

roamer65

(36,745 posts)

4. They have been outsourcing for years.

Reply to HipChick (Original post)

Sun Jun 9, 2013, 06:53 PM

Jun 2013

Christopher Boyce, who sold secrets to the Soviets in 1970's, worked for a private company contracted by the CIA. Read up on his story. Very similar to this Snowden affair.

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