Cost of a gov't intelligence analyst: $126,500 -- Cost for a contractor to do the same job: $250,000

[Tx4obama]

What You Should Know About The Intelligence Community’s Contractors

The Sunday afternoon revelation that former Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden was behind the leaks that set off the last week’s string of stories on potential overreach on the part of the National Security Agency (NSA) has led to many questions about the world he inhabited. Why would a contractor have access to such highly secret materials? What was a contractor doing at the NSA in any event? Who is Booz Allen Hamilton and why do they have such reach? Here’s what you need to know: ...

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Detailed list here: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/06/10/2127511/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-intelligence-communitys-contractors/

[Recursion]

1. The burdened rate of a GS is much higher. Contractors get a higher salary up front

And have lower benefits and no pension.

[DCBob]

6. The pension is the key factor.

The gov doesnt want to increase its already enormous pension liability.

[Scuba]

2. Yes, but they have to pay top dollar to get top people like Snowdon.

sarcasm thingy here

[Recursion]

4. I'm starting to wonder if we're seeing what he was hired for, right now (nt)

[Scuba]

5. Patsy?

[Recursion]

7. shrug

Could be, or he was hired to make this leak for whatever purpose. I can think of a few backstories that are as plausible as a guy Forrest Gumping his way from janitor to analyst in a few years.

Obama gave a speech 2 weeks ago calling for the end of the AUMF. The MIC has a history of not behaving well when Presidents do things like that.

[kenny blankenship]

3. Good. Now apply that logic to health care administration.

And what do we discover?