The USA Intelligence Community has been Infiltrated by Foreign Powers

[Alerter_]

"An awful lot of activity has been outsourced," says Mr Tittle, who himself once worked at the National Security Agency. "Anything that has to do with collection or analysis of intelligence data is being done by the private sector."

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1083180546708

Can you imagine? Part of the allure of National Security and the alphabet soup agencies like the CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA, ATF, etc., is the belief that they will protect us. We do in fact, give up a little liberty for security. We like to think we can find a balance that will keep us relatively safe and relatively free.

Due to the ideology of corporate capitalism, it's obvious that our entire intelligence infrastucture has been infilatrated by spies and Foreign Secret Services from top to bottom. This is the predictible result of "privatization". We turn over the collection of data and intelligence to the "free market" and "private contractors". We *invite* PLA, SVR, Mossad, MI6, and other foreign spies to set up a front company and lowball a contract.


Literally - high level civilian appointees with fake degrees from Backwoods Fundamentalist College have seized on some business fad and writes memos that say "Outsourcing our intelligence capabilities to the free market can provide cost savings and eliminate inefficiencies in the collection process." The predictable, obvious result is the current scandal.

I had no idea we were this far gone.

[hedda_foil]

1. I thought I'd gone beyond being stunned by anything they do.

I was wrong. This is unfathomably more traitorous than their usual treason.

[htuttle]

2. d00dz! U R r00t3d!

(snip)

Information technology companies scattered near the Pentagon in northern Virginia have taken on billions of dollars worth of contracts in recent years to do everything from gathering intelligence from satellites and sophisticated sensors to analysing the results and then distributing them to the appropriate government customers.

Meanwhile, smaller companies have cropped up to supply former agents as actual "bodies on the ground" in hazardous locations. Some former intelligence officials claim that these "spooks" are currently operating in the tribal lands of Pakistan, where US soldiers have been forbidden in their hunt for Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaeda leader.

"The agency's being run by contractors in a certain sense," said Robert Baer, a former CIA agent who operated in northern Iraq.

While proponents claim that outsourcing is more cost-efficient, the trend has alarmed critics who question whether the public can exercise proper oversight over such secretive activities.

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Somebody set up us the bomb!

[Alerter_]

4. and it's not even cheaper because of the fraud

First they lowball a bid. Then some is added in the final negotiations. Then, cost-overruns. Then, project creep. Then, fraud - and we have seen MASSIVE fraud lately - then a settlement.

So not only are we giving away the intelligence store, we are paying to do it. The criminality is amazing.

[lastknowngood]

3. No Sh*t Pearl Wolfowitz and the rest of the Israeli mob

n/t

[Nlighten1]

8. Exactly.

[xchrom]

5. oh cripes

what is this, clownville?
shit these motherfuckers are going to get us all killed -- how stupid is this?

[Alerter_]

6. NSA was a target of the "Post 911" Bush Intelligence Plan

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0901/092501njns1.htm

September 25, 2001

Panel sets 'bold and broad' course for intelligence

Change the culture and technological capacity of the National Security Agency, NSA. "The NSA is one of the most stressed of our agencies and needs special attention," Goss said. "It is a huge enterprise that needs to be drop kicked into the end zone, whose old capabilities need to be brought into a new era." NSA is responsible for intercepting, deciphering, translating, and analyzing communications by real and potential enemies of the United States. It is also responsible for safe guarding America's communications and encryption.

[hedda_foil]

7. Oh. My. God.

We have to get this information to Congress. I doubt very much if the Senators on the Intelligence Committee are aware of this.

[Minstrel Boy]

9. Outsourcing intelligence makes sense to those whose loyalties

are not to a nation, but to a global web of gangster capitalism. Some strands of the web are rapacious but "legitimate" industries, while others are clandestine (the drug trade, for instance, in which the CIA plays no small part). That is what the National Security infrastructure truly defends, not the life and liberty of American citizens.

[Alerter_]

10. divided loyalties

actually for many it doesn't seem divided at all. Loyalty is to their faction of international business, and America be damned.