Spy Agencies Send Congress Faulty Contractor Data: GAO

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-13/spy-agencies-send-congress-faulty-contractor-data-gao.html

Civilian U.S. intelligence agencies have provided unreliable and incomplete reports to Congress since 2011 on the use of private contractors who perform core functions, according to a new congressional audit.

The limitations “hinder the ability to determine the extent” to which eight agencies including the CIA use such outside workers and how much they spend to do so, the Government Accountability Office said in an audit set for release today.

Lawmakers said the report raises concerns about the security of intelligence information even though it doesn’t deal directly with that subject or with Edward Snowden, who disclosed thousands of pages of top-secret documents after working as a consultant for the military’s National Security Agency.

Congress needs reliable information “so we know exactly who is managing our nation’s secrets and why,” Senator Tom Carper, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in an e-mailed statement.

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1. These Congressmen should just shut up and let the corporations do their work. The only reason ....

... they have to lie is because Congress keeps asking questions.