[Peace-discuss] SAIC

[Wendy Edwards]

I used to work for SAIC - left in August 2006.

Wendy

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:06:46PM -0800, Chuck Minne wrote:
> This site tells about SAIC:
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>   http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/spyagency200703?printable=true&currentPage=all
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>   For those of you who have seen "Iraq for Sale," SAIC is no stranger, for they are referred to there as one of the major war profiteers of current times.
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>   Here is one paragraph from the above link:
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>   It is a simple fact of life these days that, owing to a deliberate decision to downsize government, Washington can operate only by paying private companies to perform a wide range of functions. To get some idea of the scale: contractors absorb the taxes paid by everyone in America with incomes under $100,000. In other words, more than 90 percent of all taxpayers might as well remit everything they owe directly to SAIC or some other contractor rather than to the IRS. In Washington these companies go by the generic name "body shops"?they supply flesh-and-blood human beings to do the specialized work that government agencies no longer can. Often they do this work outside the public eye, and with little official oversight?even if it involves the most sensitive matters of national security. The Founding Fathers may have argued eloquently for a government of laws, not of men, but what we've got instead is a government of body shops.
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