[Taz's Master]

Originally Posted by fintstone

My sole point was that the main problem here is with Mr. Snowden who put his own ego above the law and the good of his nation...something that he swore not to do. The only reason that Mr. Snowden was in the position to do what he did was due to the fact that the military and federal government are required to hire contractors to do work that military and Feds should be doing. There seems to be a hugely mistaken belief (among voters, pundits and lawmakers) that the private sector does things like this better and less expensively, but that just is not the case. The requirement to contract services out (and usually to the lowest bidder) result in the employment of losers like Snowden and the waste of billions of dollars repairing the destruction they cause.

The "employment of losers like Snowden", is done by the government. The same entity that justifies the collection of the information also dictates who does the collecting and analysis, and is responsible for failures in the security of the process.