This is a guest post by Wall St. Cheat Sheet Editor-in-Chief Damien Hoffman.
Last month, the Washington Post did some excellent journalism about the expanding new industry Top Secret America. This new industry is unprecedented in American history and raises some critical questions about who reigns over our nation’s security and deepest secrets.
Which services are too important to outsource? Which services are “inherently government functions“?
At the moment, there’s a bull market in the private contracting of national intelligence. Here are some of the basic stats: