This is pretty fucked up

So, I came across this interview that was done on DemocracyNow.org involving Tim Shorrock. He wrote a compelling book about the Outsourcing of Spies, and not the outsourcing to India.

The whole interview can be found here. Money quote, "I got a leaked document that was an unclassified document that was a pie chart that showed 70 percent—that’s seven-o percent—of our intelligence budget money going into the hands of private contractors."

What gets me here is that corporations or companies are making a buck of the government, that is always the case with government contracts, no harm done. But, when 70% of the budget is given to companies for signals and intelligence gathering, that is messed up. Man, it must be sweet being CACI (you know, the private company hired for intel in Iraq, the same company that brought you Abu Ghraib -well they did suggest using the attack dogs to freighten and toruture prisoners).

Best part, when you read the interview, pretty much the Intelligence Directorate (CIA, NSA, NRO, etc), did not want this report released to Congress, let alone the American public. Fuck.