Edited sentence: Hillhouse talks of the concern that “…its unlikely the public will ever hear of critical problems with contractors, even though the potential for contractor abuses is great, and the abuse in the most sensitive areas of national security has not only the potential to fleece the taxpayer (as in the Pentagons’s famous $5000 toilet seat becomes the CIA’s $5000 trench coat).It also enables an entity such as a country our company to become more flexible in terms of gathering intelligence, analyzing it, and applying that to foreign policy, military decision, or future planning for a company.It frees up the federal agents to do other work.It’s more cost-efficient.Lack of trust and accountability are the primary concerns facing the issue of outsourcing intelligence.The primary advantage for outsourcing intelligence is the same for outsourcing any other type of work.”  With these concerns it does raise the question of how the outsourcing of intelligence will play in our national security, and how fruitful it will be if careful oversight is provided