"It is the same problem we’ve got with contracting out stuff that really is a government function," Akerman said on Thursday. "It is the same thing that happened with [Edward] Snowden. It’s the same company, it turns out."
Martin worked at Booz Allen Hamilton, the private contracting firm that had employed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013 when he leaked classified materials exposing US mass surveillance programs.
Akerman, a former Watergate prosecutor with more than 30 years of experience dealing with corporate insider theft, said the US government has outsourced too many critical activities — including intelligence analysis, prison management and schooling — that should not be handled by independent contractors.
US authorities arrested Martin in the US state of Maryland on August 27. Investigators found hard-copy documents and digital information in his home, his vehicle and on his person.
