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International; and dozens of Beltway Bandits that have set up shop in D.C. and environs
to feed the government's insatiable appetite for contract intelligence.
These contractors, database users will find, do it all:
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From bases in Nevada and Virginia, they control the military and CIA Predators
that launch missiles at suspected terrorist bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Contractors also run covert operations, write intelligence reports that are passed
up the line of command all the way to the president, and advise agencies on how
to spend taxpayer dollars.
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ABOUT TIM SHORROCK
Tim Shorrock is an investigative journalist who has spent a quarter-century researching
the intersection of national security and business. SPIES FOR HIRE, his
groundbreaking book on the privatization of U.S. intelligence, was published to great
acclaim in 2008 by Simon & Schuster, and released in paperback in May 2009.
Shorrocks work has appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad,
including The Nation, Salon, Mother Jones, Harpers, Inter Press Service, The Los
Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Progressive, The Journal of
Commerce, Foreign Policy in Focus, and Asia Times. He appears frequently as a
commentator on U.S intelligence and foreign policy, and has been interviewed on
Pacificas Democracy Now, Air America, and CBS Radio. Shorrock grew up in Japan
and South Korea, and now lives in Washington, D.C., where he researches government
contracts for an AFL-CIO union representing federal employees.