… ‘cause you asked for it …
I find it amusing that this lot will be the first to rail about “misleading” statements or “lies” about the war, intelligence, etc., but no one points out the utter nonsense of the phrase “secretive investment fund” is when talking about Carlyle. It is, exactly, how much more or less “secretive” than any other private equity fund?
Equally amusing is the idea that intelligence contracting is some sort of new issue or any sort of scandal. Its only been going on for decades. It is, quite naturally, the natural outgrowth of the fact that under current conditions that gov’t can only get so big. Lots of missions + not enough federal employees = need for contractors. Its pretty fundamental.
Of course, were the intelligence and security arms of the gov’t to get bigger, there would be no shortage of stories about the rise of a police state …
So easy to bitch: where’s your solution?
