Red Alert: Our CIA is being Outsourced.

[illinoisprogressive]

ed alert: Our national security is being outsourced.

The most intriguing secrets of the "war on terror" have nothing to do with al-Qaeda and its fellow travelers. They're about the mammoth private spying industry that all but runs U.S. intelligence operations today.

Surprised? No wonder. In April, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell was poised to publicize a year-long examination of outsourcing by U.S. intelligence agencies. But the report was inexplicably delayed -- and suddenly classified a national secret. What McConnell doesn't want you to know is that the private spy industry has succeeded where no foreign government has: It has penetrated the CIA and is running the show.

Over the past five years (some say almost a decade), there has been a revolution in the intelligence community toward wide-scale outsourcing. Private companies now perform key intelligence-agency functions, to the tune, I'm told, of more than $42 billion a year. Intelligence professionals tell me that more than 50 percent of the National Clandestine Service (NCS) -- the heart, brains and soul of the CIA -- has been outsourced to private firms such as Abraxas, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html?nav=rss_print/outlook

[Old and In the Way]

1. Outscourcing accountability.

Private firms can do things that our federal agencies can't. Boy, we are in a real mess and I'm not sure we can wait another year and a half to fix things.

[glitch]

2. You got that right K & R nt

[w4rma]

3. No accountability or oversight and a huge budget creates extremely weathy people.

Its the money and power they want, not necessarily more security for our nation by using loopholes.

[Edweird]

11. It is also (most importantly) an end run around the Bill of Rights.

[AntiFascist]

5. To proliferate or not to proliferate, that is the question....

most private military-industrial firms choose to promote arms trade because, for them, War is the answer for how to make profit. What about WMDs?

[MuseRider]

7. IF we can fix it.

I am not encouraged. It seems too far gone. Not that we should not try but I don't see too many willing to do that.

[givemebackmycountry]

4. Nice -

Is there ANYTHING that Republicans won't out source?
And people wonder why I'm upset all the time that they don't know what's going on.

[Old and In the Way]

8. And think about who they outsource to....fellow Republicans.

This is a great way to assure control of the government...forever.

[truckerb1968]

6. The whole Country will be outsourced one day.

[tiptoe]

9. Insourcing fascism. nt

[OzarkDem]

10. and Dems in Congress do nothing

apparently they think this is ok?

[mod mom]

12. INSANE.

[1776Forever]

13. Saw this coming in 2001 - privitization of everything! See this link from 2004

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2006/3313rohatyn_privatiz.html

This article appears in the March 31, 2006 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
Rohatyn, Shultz, Cheney `Privatization'
Scheme To Wreck U.S. National Security
by Jeffrey Steinberg

On Oct. 9, 2004, two leading American figures in the International Synarchy, George Shultz and Felix Rohatyn, teamed up in an assault upon the national sovereignty and national security of the United States. Under the auspices of George P. Shultz's Princeton Project on National Security, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, jointly sponsored a conference promoting "The Privatization of National Security," at the Middlebury College campus in Vermont. The conference brought together a dozen or so academics, former government officials, and retired military officers to chart out the vast expansion of the privatization of military functions, through PMCs—private military companies.

According to the Rohatyn Center's annual report of 2004-05, Shultz is the co-chairman of the Princeton Project, which is funded by the Ford Foundation, and "aims to move beyond the ... standard ways of thinking about national security." Translated into plain English, Shultz and Rohatyn are leading the drive to eliminate the sovereign nation-state, by outsourcing to private multinational corporations, virtually all national security and military functions, including all non-combat and some core combat functions of the military itself.