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Arthur Delaney

How Retired Military Officers Make Bank As Pentagon 'Mentors'

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Contractors, Pogo, Project on Government Oversight, Lobbyblog, Defense Department, Business News

The revolving door is spinning rapidly for retired admirals and generals, more than 125 of whom have been re-hired by the Pentagon to serve as "senior...

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Worker Status Checks To Start

Wall Street Journal | CAM SIMPSON | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Contractors, Jobs, Worker, Worker Status, Worker Status Checks, Business News

Agencies across the federal government on Tuesday will start ordering contractors to use an electronic system to verify whether their employees are el...

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Obama Swiftboats Van Jones

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Contractors, Fox News, Humanitarian, Green Jobs, Darfur, War, Drug Companies, Progressives, Private Insurers, Swiftboat, Drones, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Civilians, Howard Dean, Samantha Power, Mercenaries, Chris Wallace, Vietnam, Tim Geithner, Woodstock, Genocide, Afghanistan, Ryan Grim, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary, Healthcare, Taking Woodstock, Countdown, Keith Olbermann, Msnbc, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

Van Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee. It is due to the Obama administration's failure to rightfully and necessarily defend a valuable member of its team.

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Remember Gay People?

Jamie Kilstein | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rights, Religion, Mark Sanford, Contractors, Atheist, Rush Limbaugh, Barack, Prop 8, Kilstein, Obama, Jamie, Gay, Newt Gingrich, David Vitter, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Jamie Kilstein

We claim to be the freest, and the best, yet all of our citizens do not have equal rights. Tell the couple who have been together for 15 years that can't adopt a child that we live in the best country in the world.

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Marcus Baram

Report: Contractors Outnumber Troops In Afghanistan By Highest Ratio In U.S. History

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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In the clearest sign that the Pentagon has become dependent on privatization, a new report reveals that today there are more defense contractors than ...

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The Army Official And The Contractor: A $191 Million "Friendship"

The Washington Post | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Contractors, Technology Contractors, Bearingpoint, U.S. Army, George Raymond, Military Contractors, Catherine Campbell, U.S. Military, Politics News

He called her Princess. She called him Bubba. They got together whenever they could, sailing on the Chesapeake Bay, traveling to business conferences,...

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Can Obama Avoid Another Abu Ghraib?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Contractors, Titan, Barack Obama, Caci, Halliburton, War Profiteers, George Bush, Iraq for Sale, World News
Robert Greenwald

The president's recent objection to a provision in the 2010 defense funding bill that would make interrogation an "inherently governmental function" is a huge step backwards.

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The Military Industrial Complex: Truck You, Detroit, or Tanks for Nuttin' Update

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mraps, Contractors, Afghanistan, Detroit Three, Gm, Obama, Chysler, Ford, Oshkosh-Truck-Corp, Marines, Military, Army, Iraqs, Detroit, Navistar, Ieds, General Petraeus, Dod, Detroit Bailout, Atvs, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

Our military procurement system is a mess. Our automobile industry is a mess. We might have helped both if we had gotten them to agree to build the next generation of military vehicles together.

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Iraqi Judge Releases American Contractors Held In Connection With Death

Washington Times | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq American Contractors, American Contractors Murder, Contractors, Jim Kitterman, Contractors Killing, Iraq Contractors, American Contractors Killing, Politics News

Three Americans arrested in connection with the killing of a contractor in Baghdad's Green Zone are being released Wednesday, said their attorney Timo...

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Congress Caves To Contractors On Online Stimulus Transparency

Washington Independent | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Contractors, Harry Reid, Omnibus, Economic Stimulus Package, Online Contracts, Politics News

Internet junkies and wonks alike may have jumped the gun in looking forward to the new online transparency hyped by House members who vowed to put con...

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Were Troops Poisoned? Vets Demand KBR Come Clean on Toxins in Iraq

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Agent Orange, Contractors, Kbr, Soldiers, Defense, Troops, Iava, Petition, Toxic Exposure, Veterans, Erin Brockovich, James Gentry, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

From burn pits to power plants, we are hearing more and more about troops who have been exposed to toxins while serving our country overseas.

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Explain to Me Why Sending Private Security Contractors to Afghanistan Makes Sense

Patrick Barry | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Kandahar, U.S. Troops, Kabul, Contractors, Afghanistan, Bush, Helmand, Pincus, Pscs, World News
Patrick Barry

Introducing private security contractors -- lightening rods for controversy in the Muslim world -- into an already volatile situation just seems nonsensical.

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The Reno: My House Is Now An Archaeological Site

Danielle Crittenden | Posted 08.02.2008 | Living

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

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 06.20.2008 | Politics

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

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 06.11.2008 | 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
Paige Donner

(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 06.06.2008 | Politics

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

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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Bush Administration Trying To Stop Fraud Reporting By War Contractors Abroad

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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State Department Inspector General Grilled By Congress Over Ties To Blackwater

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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