How many people think Snowden was a US Government employee when he acquired the data he released?
He wasn't, he was the employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, a US Government contractor.
See, this is the problem US Intelligence has getting a handle on this breach of information. US Intelligence has expanded its reliance on Global Private Sector Intelligence Firms since Reagan's signing of EO12333 in 1981. In his book "The Way of the World" Ron Suskind points out that 70% of CIA clandestine operations has been outsourced. Obviously the NSA is heavily involved in outsourcing as well.
The questions that we need to see asked by Journalists ... and I haven't seen it happen yet ... are:
What percentage of US Intelligence is outsourced to global Intel companies?
Can anyone besides the US contract with these private sector intelligence entities as well, or is an exclusivity agreement maintained?
What oversight does the US Government have over these private sector entities?
Are their routine access audits performed on them?
If this statement is true, that the US is unsure of what data was taken, it also seems to be saying that the US is unaware what information these contractors have access to. That would be very bad.
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