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A great piece by James Carroll in the International Herald Tribune (August 28th 2007) describing how so much US intelligence work is now being outsourced to private contractors. This is exactly what Kat come up against in The History Book when the function of the organisation carrying out defense work is not to protect the nation but to make a profit. Click here: Outsourcing US Intelligence
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September 10th, 2007 at 2:10 am
If outsourcing intelligence is substantial that our outsource contracts have we given India and China a fair chance at performing the task? we have certainly educated a fair number of the minds in the sub-continent and Asia at great technical universities. Clearly the hacking job of recent days demonstrates, as the FT suggests, that it is the new face of strategic warfare. But then outsourcing intelligence has been a device here for a long time. Larry Devlin’s recent CHIEF OF STATION CONGO is a reminder that international outsourcing on an individual level is a tool very familiar to intelligence services. Maybe easier to catch it now, or to lose it for that matter.