Do you think the NSA would be doing as much if they DIDN'T use private for-profit contractors?

[yurbud]

It seems like whenever private contractors are in the mix, there's a tendency for their use to metastasize, so they can get more profits from our tax dollars.

Obvious cases in point are private prisons that lobby for more "get tough" laws to create more need for their product, and every defense contractor.

Snowden was, after all, working for a private contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton.

Right wingers are always concerned about bureaucrats getting power hungry and wanting to control more people and money and therefore growing their agency beyond any real need.

But isn't that more likely if someone isn't just controlling money but putting it in their own pocket?

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	YES: business create fake needs in consumers, why not in government?
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	NO: politicians think the need for data collection is that great (whether for legit reasons or not) and the profits of those contractors is secondary
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[RC]

1. The NSA was started on paranoia and the feigned need for control over others.

Nothing has changed.