Comments by "Pat Hacker" (@pathacker4963) on "Ari Fleischer on CIA leaks, wiretapping claims" video.

  1. You stop it by not privatizing the intelligence community. "Red 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. … The private spy industry has succeeded where no foreign government has: It has penetrated the CIA and is running the show." Those are the opening lines to a recent article in The Washington Post by R.J. Hillhouse, a blogger and novelist who closely tracks the privatization of the nation’s intelligence agencies. According to Hillhouse, more than 50 percent of the National Clandestine Service has been outsourced to private firms, such as Abraxas, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon." https://www.democracynow.org/2007/7/26/outsourcing_intelligence_author_r_j_hillhouse Notice that article is ten years old? Privatization never leads to a better product for a lower cost.
    1