So....Booz Allen....still getting government contracts? Still has NSA clearance?

[LaydeeBug]

No one is talking about this?

We The People have had nothing done about this?

All *sorts* of hyperbole going around about partners and smuggling and high school drop outs and casual security clearance, and finger drives, and...

We 're still paying the facilitator of these events HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of our hard earned tax dollars to keep us safe?

No? Nothing about any of that? Just Snowden? Greenwald? Who has more access to our security measures, or lack thereof?

WHY. DO. I. REALLY. FEEL. LIKE. WE. ARE. ALL. HAVING. THE. WRONG. FUCKING. CONVERSATION????

[snooper2]

1. That is classified

[LaydeeBug]

2. >snort< It's almost as if I am in shock that they're focusing on the messengers, not the culprit

and conflating the two may fool *some* people, but it ain't fooling me

[Blue_Tires]

3. Blackwater (among others) is still doing brisk business...

You underestimate just how large, influential and politically connected some of these corporations are...

[LaydeeBug]

5. Or maybe they are underestimating the power of an alert populace,

"You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one"

And now, I am going to go bang my head against a brick wall for an hour.

[Rex]

4. YEP!

One reason I have a hard time believing anything when they immediately go right back to business as usual, yet publicly proclaim to be cutting 90% of their sysadmins...gee doesn't take a rocket scientist to see somebody is lying or not good a math.

[LaydeeBug]

6. I am honestly, truly shocked at how naked it's become...

I mean, CLEARLY Snowden can't do much (more) damage...but the bigger question is, How on earth did he get *that* much clearance *that* quickly, and if this is how they handle security clearance over at Booz Allen, it might be time for them to go packin'...I am sure we can find a better way to spend our money

[Rex]

7. Also he worked for the CIA before going over to the NSA.

This is my thought on the whole thing; our govt has such a fetish with Wall Street (and the covers since Reagan was in office) that they decided to follow this Disaster Capitalism model that has completely destroyed the middle class in the private sector. So after years and decades that leaves us with companies like Blackwater (still happily in business) and Booz Allen and Halliburton that are shady at best.

Special interest groups that have bottomless coffers, have ruined the political process with their endless greed for money and the revolving door in D.C.

[LaydeeBug]

8. I didn't know about the CIA...wow...did Snowden ever get his GED?

I guess he did. Your last sentence is spot on.

And this is just scary.

[LaydeeBug]

9. shameless kick. nt

[Safetykitten]

10. Sure...

[LaydeeBug]

11. sure...

[kelliekat44]

12. Booz is heavily in with the Caryle Group and Heritage Foundation. nt

[LaydeeBug]

13. I know, and there's nary a mention of it...and they're *STILL* getting our money. nt