Even as, in the nineties, the size of the armed forces shrank precipitously, the number of outside contract workers kept growing.
By law, companies cannot outsource jobs that are core to their business or keep a worker on outside contract for more than three years.
"Since the previous trust chairman didn't know that payments had been made outside contract, why should I have known as a new trust chairman?" he said.
As part of its new tack of evaluating behavior patterns, the agency plans to take over more responsibility for checking passenger identification and boarding passes at more airports, where most of those jobs are now done by outside contract workers.
Even the two outside contract psychologists lacked "any experience as an interrogator, nor did either have specialised knowledge of al-Qaeda, a background in counter-terrorism, or any relevant cultural or linguistic expertise".
After in-quiries by FORBES Donnelley fixed various postings, and Swanson, who hadn't told his board and initially blamed outside contract publicists in part for the false claim, issued a statement taking "full responsibility" for the "regrettable situation".
