this gs back dirctly ,-com,-c ma in my opinion, directly to not only bruce allen, butthe cia and at the nsa. cause we have programs called unterintelligence risk indicators. those are progams that are being consistenty d constantly run against o own people. only to continue to monitor them with a top-secret cleance. especially thosehat have access to intelligence and they need tcontinue to monitor. so they can find out if our standards have changed. that is where i have the biggest prlem is we want to counter that, we have too many eople talking about that. we have 1.4 million americans havehe ability to do what snow today. but there are a lot of people who have a lot of god >> most people understand that they are compartmented. which means that they are segregated. neil: you don't think they're more there are me like him? >> i hope that there are not a lot more like him. okay. well, maybe ou can kick butt here. >> be careful. >> could imagine. thank you both very much. the congressman is trying to doesn't go overboard. we have a bill in the congressman is explaining what this bill is a

bruce allen hamilton is one of the largest intelligence contractors in america employs the strategic role i would say in u.s. intelligence as an adviser to agencies such as the national security agency. midsta board stand in the of leaking a trove of documents about the government's top- secret surveillance program, we will speak with journalist tim shorrock about "spies for hire: the secret world of outsourced intelligence." nsa director has described as a digital blackwater. then, protests at walmart. [indiscernible] rejects new safety standards proposed in the aftermath of a building collapse that killed over 1100 workers in bangladesh, we will speak with former garment worker kalpona akter. last week she protested outside walmart shareholders meeting. today, she is in new york. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the obama administration is reportedly preparing to charge nsa whistleblower edward snowden with leaking classified information. the fbi has begun questioning relatives and associates of sno

he worked for bruce allen. he apparently has his fingerprints all over our government, whether it's the current head of dni clapper, the former dni -- he went to allen. he had a $2 million government with the contract, no-bid and cost the taxpayers, $70 million. two-thirds are owned by the carlyle group. they are spending a fortune. apparently, there is not much supervision. >> well, you know, one thing -- i did -- i actual, we went through a lot of scrutiny as a contract worker. i was the same as any member of the united states military overseas. we wore the uniform, we could not carry weapons. but some people are getting favoritism in a lot of defense contracts. he is a huge defense contractor. but they are looking the same. you can see goldman sachs all over the treasury department and our financial institutions. again, when you talk about trusting your government, you start to see the nepotism and the cronyism and you start to see the arroganceful you can come out and lie to the american people and you can g

i work for bruce allen hamilton as an infrastructure analyst for an essay in hawaii. >> what are somef the positions he held previously? > i have been assistant senat-- systems engineer, a senior adviser for the central intelligence agency, solution consultant, and a telecommunications information officer. >> one thing that people are most interested in and try to understand who you are and you're thinking, is there came some point in time where you cross this line of thinking about being a whistle-blower to making the choice to actually become a whistle-blower. walk people through that decision making process. >> when your impositions of privileged access like a systems administrator for the central intelligence community, you are exposed to much more information on a broad scale over an average employee. you see things that may be disturbing, but over the course of the normal person's career, you would only see one or two of these instances. when you see everything, you see them on a more frequent basis and you recognize that some of these things are abuse. when you talk to people a

bruce allen, a company for which edward snowden was an employee, or contractor, the company snowden worked for made $1.3 billion last year, 23% of the company's total revenue from intelligence work, a former director of national intelligence john mccobble is now an executive at booze allen. he's gone through the revolving door. the chief intelligence official james clapper jr. used to work at booze allen. and earlier this year booze allen said it's working on a new contract worth as much as $5.6 billion over the next five years to provide intelligence to the defense department. now, add that up, larry, and what do you get? >> you get a good picture of the way the government does its work today. there are two very different revolving doors in washington. the defense revolving door is long-standing. you know, people go work for the government, they have private -- they have security clearance all the way up to the top. they go into private industry. they have the same security clearance. part of the reason for that is the reality is the government employees don't get paid much relative to wh

bruce and has an instance in allen had an booz instance where they had a former employee walked to thed allenn to work at booz and came in with a flash drive and provided proprietary information about contracts. the company was punished for that, hit $65,000 penalty -- paid a $65,000 penalty or fine and promised to add ethics an training. you raise good questions about whether we have the proper systems in place to catch this before it starts rather than gotcha oversight later after something actually happens. host: la grange, texas. mike, independent caller. caller: good morning. thanks for c-span. scott, i just want to say, not in regards to intelligence contracts, but i was recently watching a documentary about the military, and i saw that one of our latest supply ships had .180 -- 11 navy personnel on it everyone else was civilian, and they were supplying fuel and every other need to our navy ships. that made no sense to me. when i was in the air force, we had no civil servants at all. it is hard for me to believe that we need our navy ships charging contractors maybe like they did

this weekend, bruce springsteen will take to the stage in the first music festival to be held at the olympic park in east london. that's since, of course, the olympics. joining us is jim allennal. jim, thanks for joining us. this is -- after the paralympics the olympic park has been closed. this is the first thing going on there. >> we're very excited obviously. >> your main business is hotels and cafes, of course, so where does hosting music festivals fit in. >> the brand is synonymous with music. when we think about this event, hard rock calling our eighth year of doing it in london, a great brand positioning for the hard rock brand been around for over 40 years starting in london back in 1971. >> yeah, i remember up in the cues, the cues down piccadilly. >> they're still there today. >> well, still going on. look, how are you developing the brand now? you've got new hotel properties that you're launching daytona beach, abu dhabi and china, as well. >> we look at the brand based into a couple of category, the original cafe, hotels and casinos and certainly the cafes are still the foundation blocks of the brand but when we see the brand growing from a ebitda standpoint it