Walter Pincus reports on a really important and much overlooked aspect that one encounters in microcosm in the Cunningham case -- that so much intel work is being contracted out at this point to private companies including by the Defense Department, that it has essentially zero oversight. And what might this intel work include? WP:

An online ad by Lockheed Martin Information Technology-Professional Services seeks a counterintelligence analyst to work in Iraq doing research on intelligence capabilities of countries in areas of operations under the Central Command. Additional work, according to the ad, would be "on substantive intelligence matters involving terrorist groups and networks . . . Centcom experience is a plus," the ad notes.

So just war, terrorism, Iraq. Nothing that requires oversight anyhow, right?

Posted by Laura at May 6, 2006 11:52 PM