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How about not outsourcing every government job (70% of DoD employees are contractors) to private industry? Then we might not have to choose between Blackwater and nothing:

How can a company allegedly responsible for killing 17 unarmed civilians in Baghdad in 2007 continue to get State Department and CIA contracts? CIA Director Leon Panetta says there is "not much choice" because few companies have the capabilities of Blackwater.

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