I'm watching R.J. Hillhouse on "Democracy Now" re outsourcing of intel!

This whole story is amazing. Her website is: http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/ (TheSpyWhoBilledMe).

She has an article on The Nation's website: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/hillhouse .

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The unprecedented involvement of private corporations in the Iraq War has been well documented. Private soldiers working for Blackwater USA, Triple Canopy and others provide security services against military-level threats, and they regularly engage in combat. But what is not generally known is that the secret side of the Iraq War and the larger "war on terror" is also conducted by private corporations, fielding private spies. The reach of these corporations has extended into the Oval Office. Corporations are heavily involved in creating the analytical products that underlie the nation's most important and most sensitive national security document, the President's Daily Brief (PDB).

Over the past six years, a quiet revolution has occurred in the intelligence community toward wide-scale outsourcing to corporations and away from the long-established practice of keeping operations in US government hands, with only select outsourcing of certain jobs to independently contracted experts. Key functions of intelligence agencies are now run by private corporations. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) revealed in May that 70 percent of the intelligence budget goes to contractors.
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If you want to look at the heart of how screwed up things are, look at this. Free fucking market? Okay, I'll start my own company tomorrow, and I will develop weapons technology and train my own troops with military grade weapons. And I will deploy my own wiretaps and spies.

Oh, I can't do that? Its illegal? But I started a corporation!!!

Can you say Oligarchy? Can you say Synarchy? Fascism? There is no more free market when certain corporations are given power of state they can use to keep other corporations and individuals down.

but I think you have to be a Booosh-ass-kissing-Rethuglican to form your own "Blackwater." Sad, really sad.