{"id":193054,"date":"2009-01-23T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/23\/dni-would-minimize-contractors\/"},"modified":"2009-01-23T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:44:00","slug":"dni-would-minimize-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/23\/dni-would-minimize-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"DNI Would Minimize Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adm. Dennis Blair, the nominee for Director of National Intelligence, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3914769&amp;c=AME&amp;s=TOP\">one of his first duties if confirmed will be to transfer to federal employees any &#8216;inherently governmental&#8217; work being done by contractors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Blair said the government should rely on contract interrogators only in special circumstances, such as when a suspect speaks an obscure dialect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My strong preference is that interrogators in the intelligence world be a professional cadre of the best interrogators in the business,&#8221; Blair told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during his nomination hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Committee chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she supported Blair&#8217;s call to reduce the intelligence community&#8217;s reliance on contractors. She referred to a 2007 Office of the Director of National Intelligence study that found that 27 percent of the intelligence work force is comprised of contractors, and an individual contractor costs the government $80,000 more on average than a career employee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find this unacceptable,&#8221; Feinstein said. &#8220;Hiring contractors to interrogate detainees and contract psychologists to evaluate [them] is just the wrong thing for the government to do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now if only we can apply this to the rest of the government, particularly the DoD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adm. Dennis Blair, the nominee for Director of National Intelligence, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that, &#8220;one of his first duties if confirmed will be to transfer to federal employees any &#8216;inherently governmental&#8217; work being done by contractors: Blair said the government should rely on contract interrogators only in special circumstances, such as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1010,1005,1009,1102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-government","category-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}