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Pratap Chatterjee<\/strong> Military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, Virginia, has shot into the news recently over two of its former employees:\u00a0Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who has just revealed the extent of\u00a0US global spying on electronic data of ordinary citizens<\/a> around the world, and James Clapper, US director of national intelligence.<\/p>\n Clapper has\u00a0come out vocally to condemn Snowden<\/a>\u00a0as a traitor to the public interest and the country, yet a review of Booz Allen\u2019s own history suggests that the government should be investigating his former employer, rather than the whistleblower.<\/p>\n Clapper worked as\u00a0vice-president at Booz Allen<\/a>\u00a0from 1997 to 1998, while Snowden\u00a0did a three-month stint\u00a0at their offices<\/a> in Hawaii in spring 2013 as a low-level contract employee. Both worked on intelligence contracts, which are estimated to make up almost\u00a0a quarter of the company\u2019s $5.86bn in annual income<\/a>. This past weekend, Clapper condemned Snowden\u2019s leak about US government\u00a0surveillance, telling\u00a0NBC News\u2019s Andrea Mitchell<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, it is literally \u2014 not figuratively \u2014 literally gut-wrenching to see this happen because of the huge, grave damage it does to our intelligence capabilities. This is someone who, for whatever reason, has chosen to violate a sacred trust for this country. I think we all feel profoundly offended by that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 10:50 am<\/p>\n Tags: big brother<\/a>, domestic news<\/a><\/p>\n
Guardian.co.uk<\/a>
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