Amy Goodman
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In NSA Leaks, Edward Snowden Has Confirmed Private Firms at "Highest, Darkest" Levels of US Intel
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June 11, 2013
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1:35Now PlayingDespite being on the job as a contract worker inside the NSA's Hawaii office for less than three months, Booz Allen Hamilton employee turned whistleblower Edward Snowden claimed he had power to spy on almost anyone in the country. Snowden's shocking level of access was made possible by the massive expansion of the U.S. intelligence community's reliance on private contractors. Tim Shorrock, author of the book "Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Outsourced Intelligence," says Snowden has revealed that firms like Booz Allen Hamilton are now involved "at the darkest, deepest levels" of U.S. intelligence. "The question is not why this low-level person at Booz Allen got these documents," Shorrock says. "The question is, why is Booz Allen Hamilton involved at this level of intelligence?"
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