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Is this a joke? Much of the Top Secret work performed for the government is done by private companies under contract with full clearances.

i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works

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It's like capitalism gone mad, isn't it?

I believe the UK is heading in this direction as well. Thatcher started it, but it's really gone up a few notches since then.

It's a sorry state of affairs when the schools, the fire service, the police, the prisons, the hospitals, the soldiers of war, and even the spies are all controlled by for-profit corporations.