Within the context of those remarks, you might be correct, But to assume that merely being employed by a defense contractor is some kind of evidence of agreement with what is being done now simply is not justified. Certainly, there are plenty like that, or this couldn’t even be happening. But, when you know enough of those people? No. Most often, they are just trying to support their families, same as you or anyone else. What any agency director says and what is said amongst those employees over lunch or after hours is often (usually!) extremely different. And some of those larger ‘big nasty’ defense contractors (like Lockheed, or Northrup Grumman) have long since gotten involved with contracting to non-DOD or DHS agencies.
From just what I’ve seen in a couple of different agencies, the worst of it happens in management - be that the direct government employees or the contractors. It’s the people in those positions who buy and sell and act politically. The tech people? No. Usually, they are nose-to-grindstone building and maintaining tools used for automating broader administrative tasks. You can be in pretty damned deep before you get side-swiped by finding something you worked on is being used abusively.
Just - use a narrower brush. If you don’t, it starts looking like the kind of broad swipes that label ‘potential terrorists’ - and we see how that’s working out.
