Iraq War Contractors

Jason Linkins

Blackwater And Private Security Firms Just Can't Be Disqualified From Winning Lucrative Government Contracts, No Matter What They Do

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Spencer Ackerman has been doing some stellar reporting on the who's who among the private security contractors that have gotten a share of the State Department's $10 billion Worldwide Protective Services contract.

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Is Halliburton Forgiven and Forgotten?

Pratap Chatterjee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pratap Chatterjee

How did Halliburton, once branded the ugly stepchild of Dick Cheney and a poster child of war profiteering, receive absolution from anti-war activists and the media?

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AIG, Others Routinely Denying Care To Contractors Injured In Iraq, Afghanistan

ProPublica | T. Christian Miller and Doug Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Civilian workers who suffered devastating injuries while supporting the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan have come home to a grinding battle fo...

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Death of My Friend's Son in Iraq Finally Sparks Pentagon Probe

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Greg Mitchell

The Pentagon has just ordered electrical inspections of all buildings in Iraq maintained by KBR, the major military contractor.

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Jason Linkins

U.S. Military Contractor 'Used Armored Cars To Transport Prostitutes'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over at Muckraked, we get news that "a panel of whistleblowers" testifying before a Senate committee yesterday dropped a dime on their employer, milit...

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2005 Use of Riot Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions

NY Times | James Risen | Posted 05.25.2011

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The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military...

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Pentagon Won't Probe KBR Rape Charges

ABC's The Blotter | Justin Rood | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Defense Department's top watchdog has declined to investigate allegations that an American woman working under an Army contract in Iraq was raped ...

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ABC Obtains First Images Of Blackwater Firefight

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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ABC News has obtained the first images of the controversial September 16 shooting incident involving Blackwater security forces. The still images, t...

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$6 Billion In Iraq Contracts Under Criminal Investigation

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Military officials said Thursday that contracts worth $6 billion to provide essential supplies to American troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan -- i...

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