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In reply to the discussion: Maybe I miss it, but seems to me that one of the big elephants in the room is Booz-Allen. [View all]RVN VET
(492 posts)And there's more sleaze to this story than we'll ever learn.
ES maybe committed a crime. But, if so, he was able to do it only because NSA and BAH teamed up to combine their incompetence and greed to make it possible for him to do so. NSA found a way to hire top security people on the cheap, to save a few bucks and a lot of paper work by letting the private sector do its hiring.
I have to wonder what other areas of our "top security" State are really just open fields for pvt contractors to plunder?
We don't know whether BAH or any other contractor would actually use the intelligence it gathers to get richer and richer. We do know that BAH was paying ES $125,000 or so. But that was just the shavings off the top of the fatter contract BAH signed with NSA. ES may have gotten $125,000. But you, I, and the rest of the taxpayer-saps in the Country paid BAH at least double that amount for ES's services.
The beat goes on.