Chesterman makes the only point this boils down to as far as Spies for hire are concerned-"The simplest way of containing some of the problems outlined in this article would be to forbid certain activities that are inherently governmental from being delegated or outsourced to private actors at all."
A 1992 Policy letter from the OFP(Office of Federal Procurement) listed anything that can significantly affect the life, liberty, or property of private persons as inherently governmental. This included direction and control of Intelligence and counter-intelligence operations.
In 1998, the Congressional legislation didn't help ..."(criminalizing) private companies are forbidden from taking roles that are inherently governmental functions like warfighting, judicial, enforcement, regulatory, and policy-making functions " Certain other capabilities, " such as those directly linked to national security, also be retained in-house to help ensure effective mission execution."
Inherently governmental functions were defined as so related to public interest that it required performance by government employees.
In 2002, the same notations and The ODNI in its 2006 ' Five Year Strategic Human Capital Plan ' noted that OMB had requested it to conduct a study to determine whether contractors were engaged in intelligence community work that was ' " inherently governmental " and hence improper.
The agencies have not taken this or the threat contracting has opened up serious enough to adopt or apply these definitions. As a result, companies run by the 1% are destroying democracy by creating deeper inequalities.
When I started researching this 3 years ago, it was from the bottom up. In the follow-up article, the way the very top of the pyramid interacts with the boots on the ground practitioners in the new American reality will be shown clearly.
There isn't a better way to explain the top down than through the lens of the researchers above showing the clear and present danger to the country, the fabric of society, and the American political system. And lastly but not least the safety of the world.
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