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The information that 70% or more of US intelligence work and it's secret budget has been outsourced to private companies since 9/11/01 isn't being reported by main stream media and that should worry all of us. By 2011, more than 4.2 million government and contract workers had security clearances and more than a third of them had top-secret access. We should be worrying not only about what info our government is collecting and doing with it but also the 1,900 private contractors who have profited massively with our taxpayer monies. Contractors even administer the security clearance reviews.

We have already seen the massive use of private contractors in our military/wars and privatization of water/utilities, education, prisons, transportation in this country so we shouldn't be surprised that private companies are deep into the snoop biz. Private companies exist solely to make money, first and foremost. We should all be concerned when profit is partnered with vital national interests.