Private Spies Deserve More Scrutiny

Andy Downs · Apr 20, 2014

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OpEd by Kevin Gallagher

It turns out being the only imprisoned journalist in the United States doesn't get you on CNN or MSNBC. If you're Barrett Brown, a firebrand with an outlandish style, a penchant for insulting those very outlets and a history of working with hacktivist collectives, you can consider yourself lucky to get written up in Rolling Stone and the New York Times.
The drama of Brown's case and cancelled trial is all but over, but the media and the public has dropped the ball on what he was trying to expose. That's the secretive world of private intelligence contractors -- an estimated $56 billion-a-year industry consuming 70 percent of America's intelligence budget.

More at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-m-gallagher/private-sector-surveillance_b_5171750.html

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