it is a key reason spending has fisca explodedl. before the fiscal commission some of the defense analysts analysts the inbest defense analysts in thed country came before us and toldf us 51% of all federal employeesp. are at the department of defense all federal employees are at the department of defense and that doesn't count the contractors n't planas, contractors or their and their response was senator, we can't tell you. i said is that a matter of security security or? clearances? no senator, we don't know.hat's i said what's the range?how man about how many contractors arehe dep there working in the department of defense? 1 >> the answer was senator, one 9 to 9 million between 1 million to 9 million. right. we can't tell you which is a s right. i mean we've got a seriousrtment ofefense problem of contractors workingense for the department of defense you h and the defense can't even tell you how many contractors they've got working for them. mr. president we've got a problem. the previous secretary of defense, secretary gates s