and vice chairman of mclarty & associates, ambassador john nagriponte. welcome back. thanks for getting up with us. what s your take, it s a lot to digest. we have 10 pages here. part two of a three part series. what s your take? today s focus on private contractors. 30% of our entire intelligence apparatus by private contractors. did you know it? do you think it s true? yeah, sure we knew it. and in fact, when i was director of national intelligence, we began to get a handle on it in terms of doing the first survey of the number of contractors in the intelligence community. but right in the story itself, you can see that a lot of these people, more than half are technical and support personnel. many of them in the information technology area. hardly any company or government agency in the world can operate can operate without contractors and consultants in the i.t. area. ok. given that, i mean, given that, do you think what the