Booz Allen Hamilton

70% of $80 billion intelligence budget goes to private contractors

2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 6/10

Snowden revelations in 2013 exposed that 70% of the $52.6 billion “black budget” went to private contractors. One in four intelligence workers was a contractor, with firms like Booz Allen Hamilton among 1,900 companies supplying tens of thousands of analysts. Post-9/11, intelligence …

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Bush Privatizes 70% of Intelligence Budget to Contractors

2008-08-29 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

By 2008, the Bush administration had privatized 70% of the intelligence budget to private contractors, creating a ‘shadow intelligence community’ with unprecedented corporate access to classified information. Associate DNI Ronald Sanders confirmed that 37,000 ‘core’ …

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