Paying Peter to Kill Paul
American and NATO service members deserve better than to possibly die fighting an insurgency that even American contractors admit is being funded by the Department of Defense.
American and NATO service members deserve better than to possibly die fighting an insurgency that even American contractors admit is being funded by the Department of Defense.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Your "This Day In Government Contractor Abuses" comes via Spencer Ackerman, who flags this release from the U.S. Department of Justice: The United St...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
When thirty Republicans lined up against an amendment that would have required defense contractors to allow their employees access to U.S. courts in c...
businessinsider.com | Lawrence Delevingne | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
WIth all the company's riches, why is a Goldman Sachs (GS) subsidiary getting a $3 million earmark from Washington?...
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — During a routine check of a watch tower at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, an Army sergeant found the guard leaning back in a chair...
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics
I talked with Congressman Alan Grayson in detail about his efforts to stop the government cash flow to contractors that cheat the government and overcharge the American taxpayers.
Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 09.16.2009 | Home
The Defense Department's request last week for congressional approval of the sale of $8 billion worth of PAC-3 missiles to Turkey was the latest victo...
Tom H. Hastings | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Americans are on Full Oxymoron Alert these days, as we read and hear about this "jobless recovery." Recovery for whom?
Frank Naif | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
The outsourcing of intelligence has impacted nearly every aspect of intelligence operations, and Congress wants to know how and why.
Frank Naif | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Does the federal government need to be involved in coordinating private sector cybersecurity? Perhaps, but only in a coordinating role.
Melanie Sloan | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
How many more stories must appear before Rep. Murtha is forced from his perch as chairman of Defense Appropriations and denied further opportunity to feather his own nest?
James Warren | Posted 06.03.2009 | Media
It's not as sexy as trying to save Chrysler, but the government is trying to save defense contractors from a peril as great as lousy car sales -- slimeball computer hackers.
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has chalked up a quick victory in its drive to kill an expensive jet fighter better suited for the Cold Wa...
Dina Rasor | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
The Pentagon uses historic costs to base how much a new weapon will cost. This is a fundamental flaw that dooms us to pay exponentially more for each new generation of weapons.
Frida Berrigan | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
Is each weapons system or program provided for in our budget actually needed for American security? Or are the defense contractors shoveling a load of shovel-ready bull?
Wall Street Journal | August Cole | Posted 04.07.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama fired a surprise broadside at the defense industry, saying he intends to clamp down on practices that have resulted in billions...
Nick Turse | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics
Is it possible that one of the Pentagon's contractors has a tripartite business model for our tough economic times: one division that specializes in crock-pots, another in adult diapers, and a third in medium caliber tactical ammunition?
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Wild, unprovoked gunfire and grenades killed 14 innocent Iraqis and hurt dozens more in a 2007 Baghdad attack, prosecutors said Mon...
NY Times | KATHERINE ZOEPF and ATHEER KAKAN | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
BAGHDAD -- An American prosecutor working on the case against five Blackwater security guards indicted in connection with a 2007 shooting in Baghdad h...
Time | Mark Thompson | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home
Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That's why the U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing "thought...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 08.02.2008 | Green
Ashcroft claims waterboarding isn't torture, Green energy sector jobs surge, Ford offers more fuel efficient vehicles in the U.S., and the White House tries to define contraception as abortion.
Ray Kimball | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
The current explosion of contract spending in Iraq -- hundreds of billions of dollars, with tens of billions wasted -- has made it clear that this course of action is no longer sustainable.
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Iraqi government said Tuesday it would review the status of private security companies as anger over the alleged involvement of Blackwater USA in ...
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.12.2009 | World