The idea of contracting and outsourcing sensitive information is a bad one. I work in IT security for a state government, and the calls for privatization astound me. I have had to pass security clearances for the information I have access to. Sending the same information to China is just insane.
Privatization is not the problem. Here the Fed directly contracted with foreign workers, so government clearly isn’t any better than private organizations (which astounds me when people think the government is better at anything than the private sector). The solution here is to simply not allow non-citizens to work on anything government related. What astounds me is that this isn’t obvious to everyone.
I've been transported to an insane parallel universe. This cannot be the one I lived in just a few decades ago.