Should contractors do national security work? [View all]
By Joe Davidson
Tuesday, June 11, 12:43 PM
... Should contractors do sensitive government work? If government surveillance is not inherently governmental, then what is? ...
Federal employee unions have long argued too many contractors are doing work meeting that definition.
Snowden’s case “is yet another example of why outsourcing our national security to mercenary rent-a-cops is a bad idea,” said Lee Stone, a vice president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers. It represents many federal employees with security clearances, including some in the Defense Department.
“Contract personnel by definition are not employed by the federal government but rather by a company,” he added, “generally a for-profit corporation that answers primarily to its shareholders” ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/should-contractors-do-national-security-work/2013/06/11/c7b5ad9a-d1f7-11e2-8cbe-1bcbee06f8f8_story.html
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