Private security firms – for example, Blackwater – will still be operating, accountable neither to him nor to Congress, and not bound, they have argued, by international treaties. Weapons manufacturers and the telecommunications industry, with billions at stake in maintaining a hyped “war on terror” and their new global surveillance market, will deploy a lavishly financed army of lobbyists to defend their interests.
有人认为，根据国际条约，私人安全公司——例如黑水公司——将会继续经营，既不对总统负责，也不对国会负责，并且不受约束。武器制造商和电讯业在维护大肆宣传的“反恐战争”上以及在新的全球监测市场中，拥有几十亿美元的利益，它们会部署一个财力庞大的游说队伍来维护它们的利益。