The "Free Market" Appears To Be More A Game Of Shills And Payola...

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Snowden Leak: U.S. Paying Contractors Ten Times as Much as Bureaucrats
Jason Mick - DailyTech
August 30, 2013 8:22 AM

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The "free market" appears to be more a game of shills and payola

When the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), and other intelligence firms get their spying dollars they contract out much of their work to private analysts. But this process has long been suspected by some to be less free market and more outright corruption. A fresh leak affirms that much like rumors of spying on U.S. citizens -- these claims that were once were dismissed as paranoid irrationalism have now been proven to be true in America's warped political landscape.

I. Intelligence Official: "Brilliant People Get You in Trouble"

The latest document was published in The Washington Post and comes courtesy of former NSA analyst Edward Snowden.

Mr. Snowden was never supposed to have access to this document -- nor many of the others he obtained. But as with much of his trove of documents, he obtained the kind of whistleblower information that was far too explosive for even a privileged employee of his clearance, by using digital espionage to escalate his privileges even higher.

A former intelligence official quoted by NBC News described Mr. Snowden, stating:

Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was. This is why you don’t hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble. The damage, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12.

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