re: #7 Decatur Deb
Looking at the worker bees, Fed and contract, misses the core problem. The leadership of the NSA and various contractors is interchangeable and often interchanges. Check the persons leading agencies and BAH over the last few presidencies.
There is a good bit of military sociology available on the impact of young-retiring flag officers on American business in general.
And with that leadership at BAH…and they’re still that lax? That just reinforces what I’m saying about contracting intelligence. If Mike McConnell can’t ensure fucking national secrets, there should not be private firms doing intelligence work.