Robert Scheer: The Good Germans in Government

[Jesus Malverde]

1. The author does a good job of distilling the issue.

Did she know that the NSA had granted Booz Allen Hamilton such extensive access to our telephone and Internet records? Did she grasp that the revolving door between Booz Allen and the NSA meant that this was a double-dealing process involving high officials swapping out between the government and the war profiteers? Did she know that the security system administered by Booz Allen was so lax that young Snowden was given vast access to what she now feels was very sensitive data? Or that private companies like Booz Allen were able to hand out “top security” clearances to their employees, and that there now are 1.4 million Americans with that status?

Amazing that they would ever consider outsourcing access to these systems. I picture Dick Cheney and Karl Rove sitting at these terminals with unfettered access and they aren't looking for terrorists.