The Private Outsourcing of US Intelligence Services

mrbluze writes "It appears that more and more of the data collection sanctioned by the US government is passed through the hands of private enterprise, Salon reports. 'Because of the cloak of secrecy thrown over the intelligence budgets, there is no way for the American public, or even much of Congress, to know how those contractors are getting the money, what they are doing with it, or how effectively they are using it. The explosion in outsourcing has taken place against a backdrop of intelligence failures for which the Bush administration has been hammered by critics, from Saddam Hussein's fictional weapons of mass destruction to abusive interrogations that have involved employees of private contractors operating in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Aftergood and other experts also warn that the lack of transparency creates conditions ripe for corruption.'"

Comments

Re:enough with the "no wmd" already

[Anonymous Coward]

There were no WMD, the administration knew that and still lied about it in an attempt to garner public support for their little oil^W war.

This complete betrayal of public trust is made possible by deluded retards like yourself. You're a far greater threat to liberty than terrorism will ever be!

Re:We had inspectors in Iraq.

[nurb432]

oh, i agree we have lost too many American lives over it. We should have nuked the country and been done with it. All this pussyfooting around, so as not to offend people, or hurt some idiotic house of worship is ludicrous. Its a damned war, the only goal is to win.