u.s. intelligence and outsourcing Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:22:26 -0600 (CST) Snip: "Over the last 10 years, government outsourcing has spread to some of the crown jewels of US intelligence. From CIA analysis to NSA signals intelligence to the interrogation of enemy prisoners, private companies like SAIC, Booz Allen Hamilton and CACI International are now making millions of dollars doing what the government used to do. Outsourcing has become so pervasive that the Director of National Intelligence decided to study the phenomenon last year. But when the report was finally completed in April 2007, the results were apparently so stunning that the DNI vetoed the idea of putting out a report and instead told reporters that disclosure of the figures would damage national security..." See: u.s. intelligence and outsourcing http://memes.org/us-intelligence-and-outsourcing * Juxtaposeur http://memes.org/blog/juxtaposeur http://www.youtube.com/smileycoyote http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/default.aspx http://www.veoh.com/users/juxtaposeur