SENATOR BIRDBRAIN: Senate to craft legislation to prevent contractor access to classified data. Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein: “We will certainly have legislation which will limit or prevent contractors from handling highly classified technical data.”

Does Sen. Feinstein have the faintest idea of who develops the systems that acquirethat (highly classified technical) intelligence data? And who operates those systems? And who processes the data? And who interprets the data? Contractors all...

The only things the government does are a) fund the programs and b) misuse the data. It does neither well.