re: #277 funky chicken

Wiki has a good explanation of the GS pay system. Sysadmins for the FBI are generally GS-7 to GS-9. Forensic computer scientists and forensic accountants are often GS-9 to GS-11 range. Snowden was making double what actual government employees at the FBI make, and the FBI employees almost certainly have higher security clearances and, you know, degrees in their fields.

The size and cost of the “intelligence industrial complex” is disgusting. If anything comes of this clusterfuck, I hope it’s some reduction of that.

Surely you don’t mean to suggest that lean, mean, market-driven commercial wizards can’t do the job better and cheaper?