re: #172 A Mom Anon

I’m listening to Randi Rhodes on the radio right now and she’s talking about these private contractors do their own security clearance screenings now. I don’t think that most Americans have any freaking idea the scope of this. Our government isn’t ours anymore, it’s kinda freaking me out here as I read more stuff. 1900 different security firms owned by private equity corporations. Yipes.

Booz Allen Hamilton’s Wikipedia page is quite the interesting read too. There’s an interesting bit about the IRS in there, related to the recent “scandals”.

Yep, the folks doing the interviewing, running the background checks and doing the questioning, no longer are directly accountable. Sure, they are accountable to the agency who contracted the work out, but the agency is the one likely to take it in the neck, not the contractor. BAH made something like $5.6 billion in profit last year on government contracts, no doubt a sizable portion of that feeding back into Congressional kickbacks to keep the gravy train running. We’re running our national security by the lowest bidder.