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That only applies if you're spying on the taxpayers, though, or possibly threatening to kick their doors in looking for drugs.

If you're teaching taxpayers or helping them in any other way then most of your department got the axe a decade ago.

Let's wait to see if the whole system crashes now before we conclude that.

Not that we'll ever know.

Not really. More like:

"Government agency hires army of contractors to automate jobs of 900 people"

They're building a layer of abstraction to separate the running of the systems from the data.

Talk about sensationalized headlines...