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Leak Could Undermine Trust In Government ContractorFederal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, headquartered in McLean, Va., employed Edward Snowden, the computer technician at the center of the controversy over leaks involving the National Security Agency.
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The NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, worked most recently for Booz Allen Hamilton, a private federal contracting company based in McLean, Virginia. Booz Allen had revenue of almost $6 billion last year from selling services to federal government agencies, including highly secretive ones like the CIA. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.
In recent decades, a quiet revolution has been transforming the way Washington works. Paul Light, a professor of public service at NYU, says the federal government simply can't do all it's supposed to do with the workforce it has.
So we contract out, and that contract workforce has been growing through the past 25 years at least, and we've become highly dependent on it.
Booz Allen Hamilton is one of numerous companies that have ridden that privatization wave to great success. For years, the company earned much of its profits by selling management services to the private sector. But a few years ago, the company was split up, and part of it was sold to the private equity firm the Carlyle Group. That part makes virtually all of its revenue working for the government.美国国家安全局的泄密者，Edward Snowden，近期主要是为一家名为Booz Allen Hamilton的公司工作，这是一家位于弗吉尼亚州麦克来茵镇的私人联合外包公司。Booz Allen公司去年靠向联邦政府提供服务而获利近60亿美元，其中包含一些类似CIA性质的高度机密的服务项目。接下来是国家广播之声的Jim Zarroli的报导。在最近的几十年里，一场静悄悄的变革正在改变着华盛顿的工作方式。纽约大学的公共服务专业的教授——Paul Light说：联邦政府不能简单的让它自己的人员去干所有它想做的事，于是有些活就外包出去了。至少在最近的25年中，外包的工作人员数量一直在增加，而且政府也变的非常依赖这股力量。Booz Allen Hamilton只是众多趁着私有化浪潮大发横财的公司中的一个罢了。这个公司有些年是通过向私人企业提供管理服务来赚钱的。几年前，这家公司拆分成了几块，其中的一部分卖给了私募股权投资公司——Carlyle集团。随后，这部分公司的几乎所有收益都来自于为联邦政府的服务了。
——译文来自: hawkinmoon | 
发表于 2016-8-2 13:27:07