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no. there hasn t been much movement. congressman hank johnson took the lead on this. he made some pointed questions to the nsa chief. let me reiterate. this was a plan by three defense contractors on behalf of the u.s. chamber of commerce and their attorneys to actually hack into the computers of the claim chamber s critics. everyone from the activist group moveon.org. another separate proposal to the same contractors on behalf of bank of america wanted to look into wikileaks and its supporters. the plans, of course, didn t go through. the contents were leaked but it demonstrates the danger of having really powerful cyber weapons in the hands of private contractors. as you point out, we ve been talking a bit about what the government is doing with that information. you raise very important concerns about what these contractors can then turn around and do with that information. i want to take a look at snowden s former employer, boos

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yesterday, senator dianne discussed it. it will limit or prevent contractors from handling highly classified technical data. and we will do some other things. let s see sf f something actually gets done. let s bring in our guests. haze brown is a national security reporter for think progress.org. thank you for your time this afternoon. i want to start with you. you worked as a contractor for the department of homeland security for a time. help us understand how it is that we got from the nsa using about 140 private vendors in 2001 which grew to about 6,000 by 2006. so hike your colleague rachel maddow said in her book drift, it started under the reagan administration in terms of

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130615:20:19:00

i would point out in the i.t. arena, in the cyber arena, some of these folks have tremendous skills to operate networks. that was his job for the most part from the 2009/ 10 was an i.t. system administrator within those networks. no offense but i know a lot of folks who have to ask their kids to explain their iphones to them. do we really think the heads of the agencies or the ceos of these companies understand what is being built and how it works? i m not entirely sure how much oversight is done by a lot of the ceos and by congress to figure out what s being built in these organizations like the national security agency. the intelligence committee, the chairs of the house and senate have said the programs work. that we can t do without them. and yet we have these contractors who are able to access far more than they really should, it seems, in the case of

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