The public consensus that contracting needs to be curtailed is based on some faulty assumptions…the biggest problem facing the IC is not that contractors abuse the system, but that the government has designed a system that encourages abuse… by making the process of contracting more transparent and accountable, most issues would resolve themselves

Joshua Foust, Fellow for American Security Project

Read more quotes about the use of intelligence contractors from a recent Senate hearing at the POGO blog

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This quote. A thousand times this quote. Such a dead on encapsulation of the reason why contracting is such a messed up system for all involved.

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