Posted on 06/10/2013 7:30:44 PM PDT by Lorianne
The short but profitable tale of how 483,000 private individual have "top secret" access to the nation's most non-public information begins in 2001. "After 9/11, intelligence budgets were increased, new people needed to be hired, it was a lot easier to go to the private sector and get people off the shelf," and sure enough firms like Booz Allen Hamilton - still two-thirds owned by the deeply-tied-to-international-governments investment firm The Carlyle Group - took full advantage of Congress' desire to shrink federal agencies and their budgets by enabling outside consultants (already primed with their $4,000 cost 'security clearances') to fulfill the needs of an ever-more-encroaching-on-privacy administration.
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Our government is too damn big and too damn complex
It really IS Bush’s fault.
‘The Carlyle Group’-—Michael Moore’s favorite global asset management firm.
Closely guarded secrets, no worries.
Not even half a million people have top secret clearance.
Now really, we can keep secrets with half a million people, right ?
Sounds like a perfectly sensible idea.
We’ll build gigantic datacenters, spending billions of dollars, employ millions of people, and we’ll have super-secret, fate-of-the-nation-depends-on-it secrets !
And no one will know !
Ah, and the article says Booz Allen does work for the World Bank ! How convenient !
Just in case anyone...
should want to do top secret...
international banking !
Nice...
Greta just discussed this issue. It’s jawdropping.
>>Our government is too damn big and too damn complex
It’s an over-fed inbred termite mound.
The so-called “climate scientists” were in touch with the World Bank according to the ClimateGate doc dump.
I believe that it is far easier to get “contractors” to do things that Federal employees are not allowed to do or can’t do.
Federal employees have all those rules, the unions, and then there is that pesky oath to the constitution. It’s so troublesome.... contractors on the other hand - that is where the real money is at.
How in the HOLY HELL does a contractor for the CIA/NSA make 200k a year? That is more than the Director of the CIA!
They also do work for the HHS (Health and Human Services).
Would you trust HHS director Sebelius with your private medical data?
Oh wait, we don’t get a choice on that now.
I thought I’d see the downfall of the US in a few years. Then I started thinking it would be at least 20, at least way after my death of natural causes. Now I’m back to thinking two years again. If that long.
This info is out and way more than half the people support the government spying on it’s citizens. Now they know they can do anything and no one will really object.
You’re not going to hire a high-end, experienced unix, network, security or database admin unless you’re paying $120k++ per year; avg might be $150k or something like that.
This is gov’t, security clearance (specialized), so think higher. The 200k makes complete sense given the job.
I’ve seen a stat on the web, for example, for C++ developers at Booz, putting them in the range of $50k to $150k; $50k is probably college hires.
Admins and software developers that work on large systems are doing jobs that require experience; those without experience would make mistakes, possibly big ones, and they’d be way too nervous (or perhaps not even know they should be). Developers who are “in over their head” can have such a hard time they can get in situations where they are stuck and don’t know how to get their stuff to work. Admins who are not on the ball can make mistakes that can be disastrous.
Gov’t consulting since 2000 has developed into a feeding frenzy, since private sector customers were mostly done with “new” things about then and let lots of consultants go.
Salespeople always need to produce sales; big gov’t contractors have big “rainmaker” (ex-gov’t) salespeople to land those big contracts.
Carlyle Group has both GHWBush and George Soros as members...
Keep in mind that globalism is headquartered in the US. They want to rule the world.
The worst thing they want to do here is make you poor, feed you poison, overmedicate you, indoctrinate your kids, etc.
A) rely on God; find or start a Bible-believing Church; pray and read the Bible daily; honor the 10 commandments and all other moral law of Scripture
B) be wise, thrifty and industrious
C) live in a decent area
D) homeschool
E) own businesses and property
F) start as small as you have to
G) partner with people you know to get started
H) when a business starts losing money, fix it or shut it down before you lose everything
I) don’t invest in the stock market and/or government-regulated retirement accounts
J) income-producing real estate can be a good investment
K) develop good relationships with younger people you can trust to work with you and help you as you get older
L) quietly work with like minded people to positively influence other people; older people have a history of successes and mistakes to offer which wise younger people can learn from; work together, help each other out
If enough people do these things, they can extricate themselves from the grip of debt and slavery to the financial oligarchy.
And even if the nation brings judgement upon itself as a nation, God has never abandoned his own, nor will he; Christ now reigns victorious at the right hand of God.
Jeremiah 23
“5 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.”
Psalm 110:1 “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.”
From the cross, Lord Jesus pointed us to Psalm 22:
“25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.”
Hebrews
“1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.”
1 Corinthians 15
“But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.”
Matthew 6
“9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
Which one? Before becoming prez, papa Bush was director of.. what was that government department... uh, spy or snoop somthing, hmmm... oh, yeah, the CIA. 9/11 may have been an excuse for Jr. to expand on it. But then they didn't hate America like this admin does.
Tinfoil?
You rang?
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I need to go buy a case of reynolds wrap
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