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Blackwater Still In Business: State Department Fumbles Effort To Oust Them From Iraq

Newsweek | Mark Hosenball | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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Your tax dollars at work: as part of their effort to stop doing business in Iraq with companies affiliated with the controversial paramilitary contrac...

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DynCorp Faces Probe By State Dept. After Death

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The State Department is investigating DynCorp International, which conducts police training in Afghanistan, over its handling of an...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: February 27, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

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I quite liked Mark McKinnon's piece in The Daily Beast, today, about Twitter "jumping the shark." I especially liked his admonition that we all must ...

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Jason Linkins

Military Contractor Skullduggery Afoot In Iraq

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

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Despite the Washington Post report Thursday that the Iraqi government will not issue a new operating license to Blackwater, a story from Danger Room says the mercenaries aren't going anywhere.

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Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

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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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Sam Stein

War Contracts To Controversial Companies On The Rise

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The U.S. government awarded more than $16 billion in federal contracts to the former Halliburton subsidiary KBR between 2004 and 2006, despite controv...

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State Dept Censured For Handling Of Private Contractors

New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER and DAVID ROHDE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Over the past four years, the amount of money the State Department pays to private security and law enforcement contractors has soared to nearly $4 bi...

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Report: State Dept Doesn't Know "Specifically" What It Got For $1.2 Bn Private Security Contract

New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID ROHDE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A pair of new reports have delivered scorching judgments about the State Department's performance in overseeing work done by the private companies tha...

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