Tim Shorrock has been writing about national security for 30 years and is the author of SPIES FOR HIRE: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing.

Frank Naif is the author of "Super Secret Bungling and Crookery," a collection of cartoons about national security culture and other related things. His cartoons appear regularly on his blog, www.nationalsecuritydrone.com.

Frank is a veteran of the US Army and the US Intelligence Community. The Army took him to Louisiana and Germany in the closing years of the Cold War. He attended college in the midwest on the GI BIll and joined CIA after graduation.

Highlights of his stint at CIA included assignments in the 24-hour Operations Center and the Counterterrorist Center. While at CTC, he contributed to a National Intelligence Estimate on cyber threats and helped guide efforts to target political extremist use of the Internet.

Like many intelligence officers, Frank left government service for the filthy lucre of government contracting. He has worked as a Program Manager for several intelligence contractors--some large and well known, others very small and virtually invisible. As a contractor, he has worked closely with senior intelligence and defense officials on a variety of security policy and intelligence issues.

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