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TIM SHORROCK, SALON - More than five years into the global "war on
terror," spying has become one of the fastest - growing private
industries in the United States. The federal government relies more than
ever on outsourcing for some of its most sensitive work, though it has
kept details about its use of private contractors a closely guarded
secret. Intelligence experts, and even the government itself, have
warned of a critical lack of oversight for the booming intelligence
business.
On May 14, at an industry conference in Colorado sponsored by the
Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government revealed for the first
time how much of its classified intelligence budget is spent on private
contracts: a whopping 70 percent. Based on this year's estimated budget
of at least $48 billion, that would come to at least $34 billion in
contracts. . .
"Those numbers are startling," said Steven Aftergood, the director of
the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American
Scientists and an expert on the U.S. intelligence budget. "They
represent a transformation of the Cold War intelligence bureaucracy into
something new and different that is literally dominated by contractor
interests."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/01/intel_contractors/?source=whitelist
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TIM SHORROCK, SALON - More than five years into the global "war on
terror," spying has become one of the fastest - growing private
industries in the United States. The federal government relies more than
ever on outsourcing for some of its most sensitive work, though it has
kept details about its use of private contractors a closely guarded
secret. Intelligence experts, and even the government itself, have
warned of a critical lack of oversight for the booming intelligence
business.
On May 14, at an industry conference in Colorado sponsored by the
Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government revealed for the first
time how much of its classified intelligence budget is spent on private
contracts: a whopping 70 percent. Based on this year's estimated budget
of at least $48 billion, that would come to at least $34 billion in
contracts. . .
"Those numbers are startling," said Steven Aftergood, the director of
the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American
Scientists and an expert on the U.S. intelligence budget. "They
represent a transformation of the Cold War intelligence bureaucracy into
something new and different that is literally dominated by contractor
interests."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/01/intel_contractors/?source=whitelist
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