Brilliant people see through the propaganda that the government needs to feed its own employees. Brilliant people are harder to train to be a cog in the machin

Brilliant people see through the propaganda that the government needs to feed its own employees. Brilliant people are harder to train to be a cog in the machine. The NSA needs people who are just intelligent enough to solve infrastructure / software / etc. problems, but not so smart that they start questioning the broader goals of the organization. The army breaks down a soldier's individuality as part of a soldier's training. The NSA does not have that luxury (as far as I know), and Booz Allen Hamilton certainly does not.