Comment

Breaking: Did Edward Snowden Try to Sneak Out of Russia on the Bolivian President's Plane?

228
Decatur Deb7/02/2013 6:10:28 pm PDT

re: #220 Joanne

Tell me. I got like 35 lousy votes on my WH petition to remove contractors from intelligence. Needed…100,000. Missed it by

>……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Well, you get the idea.

Don’t take it to heart, but the petition mechanism is too binary, on-off/black-white, for that kind of policy change. It needs a legislative set of fixes to eliminate bad contractors, incentivize the others, and still use the irreplaceable expertise of DoD specialists who retire very young.