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In reply to the discussion: Do you agree with John Boehner that Edward Snowden is a traitor? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)because the average American is now learning about the War Profiteering Private 'Security' firms that are actually running all of our wars. Eg, I just found out that Clapper is a former employee of Booz Allen. That old revolving door again, he goes through it straight into being Director if Intelligence. He's already been caught in a lie, I hope he is fired for lying to Congress. That is a serious offense. But we are supposed to 'trust' a war-profiteering Republican not have a huge conflict of interest in a position where he has access to information that is very interesting to a Big 'Security' Contractor like his former Employer, Booz Allen, friends of Bush/Cheney and with a not stellar record of ethics.
This is why we need Whistle Blowers, so the rest of learn about these things. I never heard of this Corp until yesterday and from what I've learned from my own research, I am shocked that our 'security', personal information is now in the hands of these people.
What we need now, assuming we care about this country, is a complete investigation of these 'security' firms, who works for them, what influence they have over our governments decisions to go to war, how many of them have gone from profiteering, to Government positions where they can learn info that is beneficial to profiteers and whether any of the info was ever used to get laws passed to benefit these Private Corps.
I am very grateful to people like Snowden for risking his own safety and freedom to do what Congress should have done, and I know people like Ron Wyden and Udal and a few others did try to warn us, inform the American people about the influences of these war profiteers on our most serious decisions, whether we go to war, whether we spy on the American people, or not.