Corporate staff are reviewing top-secret data and helping uniformed colleagues decide whether people under surveillance are enemies or civiliansThe overstretched US military has hired hundreds of private-sector contractors to the heart of its drone operations to analyse top-secret video feeds and attend track suspected terrorist leaders,an investigation has found.
Contracts unearthed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveal a secretive industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars, placing a corporate workforce alongside uniformed personnel analysing intelligence from areas of interest.
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Source: theguardian.com