Contractors

The Reno: My House Is Now An Archaeological Site

Danielle Crittenden | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living

Read More: House Renovation, Contractors, History, Drunk, Renovating Homes, Drunk on the Job, American History, Living News

I went over and examined a rectangular pile of bricks. A hole above it indicated previous owners had eventually installed some sort of coal or wood-burning oven in front of it. Renovating. Just like us.

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Trouble at the Pentagon

Frida Berrigan | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Budgeting, Contractors, Iraq, Cost Overruns, Pentagon, Politics News

Keeping track of the Pentagon's more than half trillion dollar budget is not easy. There is bound to be some slippage -- but being unable to account for $15 billion?

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The Pentagon's Fifteen Billion Dollar Pirate Plunder

Paige Donner | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon Audit, Contractors, Congressional Oversight Committee, Free Government Information, Pigs at the Trough, Unaccounted for Expenditures, Rep. Henry Waxman, Halliburton, Senator Obama, U.S. Taxpayer Dollars, Institute for Policy Studies, Iraq, U.S. Army Soldiers, Clean Contracting Amendment, Federal Regulations, Fraud, Kbr, War on Iraq, Army, Fifteen Billion Dollars, CBS News, Mary Ugone, New York Times, Washington Post, Internal Controls Over Payments Made in Iraq Kuwait and Egypt, Misappropriation, American Idol, Seized Iraqi Oil Money, Indiana Jones Sequel, Kellogg Brown Root, Cash, Politics News

(No, this is NOT an Indiana Jones Sequel) Yes, you read that correctly. American taxpayers have paid out $15 Billion U.S. dollars in unaccounted for...

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Nickels and Dimes: Why the White House Opposes the GI Bill

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, Contractors, Pentagon, Senator Webb, Retention, Veterans, Dod, Iava, 21st Century GI Bill, Iraq Contractors, Defense Spending, Politics News

The administration's argument is that if a GI Bill benefit is too good, it'll reward veterans too richly for their service and draw them away from re-enlisting.

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How Long Will It Last?

Richard 'Skip' Bronson | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Lending Crisis, Developers, Contractors, Prime Rate, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Jimmy Carter, Real Estate, Housing Market, Business News

In the wake of the subprime crisis, caution is neither surprising nor unwarranted. But progress will not come from stagnation. We must avoid the certain mistake of going nowhere.

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War Profiteers: The Bush Baghdad Bubble

Charlie Cray | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Iraq Mercenary, Contractors, L3, Mercenaries, Baghdad Bubble, Business News

As a contractor, L-3 is a kind of conglomerate that was created by Wall Street execs who saw the war and burgeoning military spending as a golden opportunity.

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Bush Administration Trying To Stop Fraud Reporting By War Contractors Abroad

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Contractors, US Contractors, Contractors Iraq, Contractor Fraud, Politics News

WASHINGTON — House Democrats demanded documents Thursday about a multibillion-dollar overseas contracting loophole to track down how _ and why _...

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Improper Construction

Peggy Drexler | Posted 01.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Contractors, Construction, Remodeling, Living News

It always seems like a leap of faith to invite a contractor into your home. They become members of the family -- free to wander through your life.

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Jamie Leigh Jones and the Alleged KBR Rape Case: Lack of Accountability Taken to the Extreme

Dina Rasor | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: War Service Industry, Kbr, Kbr Rape Case, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War, Contractors, Iraq, Jamie Leigh Jones Rape, Jamie Leigh Jones, Politics News

If true, this young woman's rape case is twice the tragedy: first the rape and then the lack of legal jurisdiction to criminally prosecute the rapists.

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State Department Inspector General Grilled By Congress Over Ties To Blackwater

Huffington Post | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Congress Investigates Inspector General, Inspector General, Contractors, State Department Inspector General, Congress, Eric Prince, Hearings on Blackwater, State Department, Blackwater, Iraq War, Private Security, Waxman, Iraq, Politics News

The Oversight Committee is currently holding a hearing, "Assessing the State Department Inspector General." Inspector General Howard J. Krongard will ...

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A Story Ignored: Body Armor Executive Indicted for Massive Fraud

Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: Profiteering, Corruption, Body Armor, War, Louise Slaughter, Iraq, Point Blank, Pentagon, Contractors, Greed, Private Contractors, Sandra Hatfield, David H. Brooks, Point Blanke Solutions, David Brooks, Enron, Politics News

Have we become so desensitized to the corruption and excesses of George Bush's war in Iraq that even this sordid tale of greed is to be greeted with little more than a yawn?

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A New Truman Commission: The Time is Now but Will the Senate Have the Guts to Do It?

Dina Rasor | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Reconstruction, KBR, Contractors, Truman Commission, Commission on Wartime Contracting, Gao, Spending Two Billion Dollars a Week, Truman Committee, Iraq Contractors, DOD, Troops Not Getting the Equipment That They Need, Politics News

It will take the Congress to establish a commission to start peel back the layers of fraud, fat and waste in this war and find out why the troops are still not getting what they need.

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From a Mind-Numbing $2 Billion a Week to a Mind-Blowing $3 Billion a Week: What Will it Take to Get the Congress to Control Contractor Costs?

Dina Rasor | Posted 08.31.2007 | Politics

Read More: Contractors, Iraq War, Congress, Politics News

The military's track record on this war will show that they have not done the best for the soldiers but, instead, they have been bullied to do the best for contractors.

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