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Who is funding him?

• junto 13y ago
  He earned $200,000 a year. Maybe he has some savings.
  • kghose 13y ago
    To me, the real story is possibly how the government over pays contractors. The other real story is not that the government does this, it is that the government did not tell us it did this. THAT makes it underhand. If the government came out and said, look we are storing who calls whom and asking telecos to store that information and, with judicial oversight, we will access that information, and we had a debate about it, that would be the proper way. The government is taking the course "It is better to ask forgiveness than permission". Obama is going to take the rap for this, and I therefore wonder at the timing. I think it is important to realize two things 1. Obama continued the Bush era policies 2. Obama continued the Bush era policies Either that is the ONLY way security can be done, or there is some powerful faction within the bureaucracy which has gotten used to working in the shadows. I think that there is some bunch of bureaucrats who have gotten too used to having information at hand. I think we as a community need to keep using the regular methods offered to us via democracy (like posting on this online forum) to express our wish that a) We be told what the government is doing b) Express our displeasure at the direction the style of governance is going
    • n3rdy 13y ago
      > To me, the real story is possibly how the government over pays contractors. That's the real story to you? An entity that prints its own money (and uses it to spy on everyone), paying too much for contractors?
    • trotsky 13y ago
      There is so much demand in maryland for IT that has a clearance that it bids up the price of anyone reasonably competetant.
      • JPKab 13y ago
        He lives in Hawaii....
        • gknoy 13y ago
          And cost of living there is ridiculous.
  • 9999 13y ago
    200,000 does not seem excessive given the difficulty of finding someone who is both technically competent and trustworthy.. Oh wait...
    • EmmEnnEff 13y ago
      I think what they are looking for are people that are technically competent, and entirely lacking in a consciousness.
      • vinceguidry 13y ago
        Practically impossible to vet. You won't know whether the person you hired will remain compliant until he steals a bunch of documents and flees the country.