Feinstein, Petraeus Say Wartime Contractors Must Go

[DFab420]

attacks, the intelligence community, consisting of everything from the CIA to the Homeland Security Department, is outsourcing too much of its work to private contractors and is breaking a pledge to reduce the number of private contractors hired to help conduct, collect and analyze information.

That's the view of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who chairs the Intelligence Committe. On Tuesday she said the intelligence community was not living up to a commitment to reduce private contractors by 5 percent a year.

"We had an agreement in 2009 to reduce contractor numbers by 5 percent a year, but it's clear that progress has not been maintained and sufficient cuts are not being made," Feinstein told a joint-hearing of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to assess progress in U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis over the last ten years.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/feinstein-petraeus-says-wartime-contractors-must-go.php?ref=fpblg

What a nice surprise.

[msongs]

1. military should go back to cooking its own hamburgers and dumpf burger king/KFC war profiteers

[arbusto_baboso]

2. I actually agree with Petraeus about something?

I gotta mark this day on my calendar...

[EFerrari]

5. If you reduce the number of contractors, don't the ones that are left

get more work?

[abelenkpe]

3. Feinstein?

One thing she's right about.

Still want a more liberal democrat in her seat. :P

[Romulox]

4. Sounds like SOMEBODY didn't pay their kick-back! nt

[mike_c]

6. DiFi must be short on contractor investments or something....

One can only assume that she isn't making sufficient profit now that the old style MIC is winding down in Iraq.

[truedelphi]

7. The headline was so impressive - and then we read the devll's statement

Found in the details.

Just who's husband made 27 millions of dollars in war contracts within months of Di Fi's vote for the IWR?

And which Senator had the entire wording of the Senate's Code of ethics changed, to make such a thing possible.

So go Di Fi!! Keep insisting on a "five percent reduction per year." For me, I see the image of of the Hydra, with heads growing back for each head we cout off. We need someone with cajones to insist on our vaporising the beast in one fell swoop, which is the only way it will get done.

[qb]

8. In addition, Wartime Contractors Must Go TO PRISON.

Some of them, anyway. There was at one time a law against war profiteering, was there not? At least a code of honor?