The level of corruption that has entered the Federal Government in the last 15 years is shocking. DC is starting to look like Moscow or Beijing. Difference is the people in DC want to destroy their country while they loot it rather than build it up.
I think we have to get private companies of any kind away from military/intelligence/police type matters. The potential for abuse is too great. Nothing intelligence or security related should be being performed by anyone who is not a direct, accountable employee of the gov’t. The profit motive should play no role in these sensitive areas. It’s one thing to hire a private company to sweep the floors, but having private firms and contractors actually doing spying or even formulating policy, as is increasingly the case, is absurd and will guarantee very serious corruption.
I agree when the private sector gets involved it means the profit motive will inevitably work to create incentives for more of it. That might sound counter conservative to some, but that’s the way the system works and what ends up being corrupt and fascist. There are areas of privatization that work and other areas that corrupt.
I heard a great conservative (his name eludes me) speak on exactly this recently pertaining to private prisons. He said the incentives that come from private prisons are exactly opposite from public interest. The incentive of this industry is not to expand a law abiding society with fewer prison inmates, less judicial corruption but more inmates and more prisons.
The same with a private military or intelligence. Get the private sector out where their incentive is more war etc.. The government may not be perfect but it doesn’t lobby itself with a profit motive that leads to bribes.