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Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent. It is the agency’s first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to curb what critics have decried as the growing privatization of U.S. intelligence work, a circumstance that has sharply boosted some personnel costs.

Okay so this will save some money, but what about the effectiveness of the organization? Contractors know that they have to perform or they lose their funding. Whereas government employees know if they don’t perform, they will most likely still have a job.

What do you think? Is this a good move to save Federal dollars, or a bad move that will reduce CIA effectiveness?

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We’ve had a lot of threads here where people have briefly discussed how they obtained their clearance. Let’s make it official.. Tell us:

• When you received your clearance
• How long it took
• Which agency issued it
• Whether you received it as a contractor or Federal worker
• Any other interesting details

I’ll give my details below.

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