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	Who Runs the CIA?

thisnamecantbetaken

7-20-2007 4:53 AM

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cia, security, outsourcing, spies, terrorism, terrorists, corporatism, privatization

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7-20-2007 9:34 AM

thalliume

"Foreign governments approach them. And some day, terrorists will clue in to this potential workforce."
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b3f3cee2-32bb-467d-9335-2075578373e5/2AE7FD77-D567-42B8-8BD0-B2C6E38BB31F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html"><H1>Who Runs the CIA? Outsiders for Hire.</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html"><P>Red alert: Our national security is being outsourced.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html"><P>The most intriguing secrets of the "war on terror" have nothing to do with <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Al+Qaeda?tid=informline" linkindex="132">al-Qaeda</A> and its fellow travelers. They're about the mammoth private spying industry that all but runs U.S. intelligence operations today.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html">In April, Director of National Intelligence <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Mike+McConnell?tid=informline" linkindex="162" set="yes">Mike McConnell</A> was poised to publicize a year-long examination of outsourcing by U.S. intelligence agencies. But the report was inexplicably delayed -- and suddenly classified a national secret. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html">more than half the workforce in two key CIA stations in the fight against terrorism -- <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Baghdad?tid=informline" linkindex="168">Baghdad</A> and <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Islamabad?tid=informline" linkindex="169" set="yes">Islamabad</A>, <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Pakistan?tid=informline" linkindex="170" set="yes">Pakistan</A> -- is made up of industrial contractors, or "green badgers," in CIA parlance.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html">it's worrisome</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html">These corporate-grown agents will be inculcated with corporate values and ethics, not those of public service.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html">Other companies offer them jobs</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/06/AR2007070601993.html">Foreign governments approach them. 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