Stop outsourcing government secrets

[struggle4progress]

By Dan K. Thomasson
For the Deseret News
Thursday, June 13 2013 12:31 p.m. MDT

... two things about the recent National Security Agency controversy seem abundantly clear: The intelligence community .. needs less reliance on outside contractors and far better vetting of those it does hire ...

... it would seem prudent to start the investigation of this entire matter by delving into the reasons why Booz Allen Hamilton, owned by the Carlyle Group, a politically connected major government contractor, hired Snowden in the first place. What in his spotty resume convinced them to assign him to the National Security Agency?

The next question -- for the FBI, the Justice Department and everyone else directly involved, all the way to the White House -- is whether it is wise to depend on so many outside contractors in the first place, no matter how politically well connected ...

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865581614/What-others-say-Stop-outsourcing-government-secrets.html

[dgibby]

1. Poppy and Dumbya are laughing all the way to the bank.

When Shrub said it would be easier if this were a dictatorship, he wasn't joking, and now the mechanism to achieve that is in place, just waiting for the right person to get elected to the job.