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An Iraqi Translator Gets Prosecuted While Blackwater Gets Another Year in Iraq
Jeremy Scahill | Posted April 6, 2008 | Politics
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Alaa Mohammad Ali, Blackwater, Blackwater Investigation, Blackwater Iraq, Blackwater USA, Iraq, Iraq Blackwater Contract, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War, Iraq War Contractors, Nisour Square, Private Contractors, Private Security Contractors, Saddam Hussein
For the first time since 1968, the Pentagon has charged a civilian contractor under military law. But the individual in question is not one of the Blackwater "shooters" alleged to have gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square last September, nor is it the Blackwater contractor accused...
Contractor Self Arrest: How Realistic Is This?
Dina Rasor | Posted April 5, 2008 | Politics
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Congressional Oversight, Dod, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War Funding, Oversight, Private Contractors
The co-author of my book, Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War, has an interesting take on the DOD relying on contractors to report their own fraud. Robert Bauman is a former DCIS (Defense Criminal Investigative Service) investigator and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. Here is...
The 100 Years War
Bill Maher | Posted March 21, 2008 | Politics
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Defense Spending, Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney Iraq, Iraq Contractors, Iraq Five Years Of War, Iraq War Five Year Anniversary, John McCain Iraq Surge, McCain Iraq, McCain Iraq 100 Years, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Private Contractors, Private Security Contractors, War Profiteering
In the past 24 hours, Dick Cheney has been in Baghdad, calling the Iraq War a "successful endeavor." John McCain's there too, and actually uttered those four magic words, "the surge is working," which only differs from Cheney's analysis in the scary possibility that McCain might actually believe it. Then...
Fraud Crackdown Comes With a Loophole
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | February 12, 2008
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Afghanistan War, Contract Fraud, Iraq Contractors, Iraq Fraud, Iraq War, Private Contractors, War Contractors, Warwire
Private Iraq Contractors Employing Latin American Poor
LA Times | Patrick McDonnell | January 28, 2008 09:40 AM
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Iraq, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War, Private Contractors, War Contractors, War In Iraq, Warwire
Blackwater Repainted Trucks Immediately After Deadly Baghdad Shooting
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and MATT APUZZO | January 12, 2008 09:32 PM
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Blackwater, Blackwater Guards, Blackwater Iraq, Blackwater Shooting, Blackwater Shooting Baghdad, Blackwater USA, Iraq, Iraq War, Private Contractors, Private Security, Private Security Firms, Warwire
Ten Worst Public Policies of 2007
Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted December 29, 2007 | Politics
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Consumer Product Safety Commission, Fcc, Free Trade, Guns, Healthcare, Immigration, Policy, Private Contractors, Schip, Supreme Court
From The Drum Major Institute's Year In Review (read our full round-up of the year in politics and policy online here)
1. Selling Out Consumer Safety
As headlines about the recall of millions of children's toys coated with highly toxic lead paint dominated the newspapers this summer, many...
Completely Ignored
Washington Post | Steve Fainaru | December 23, 2007 11:47 PM
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Blackwater, Blackwater Iraq, Blackwater USA, Iraq, Iraq War, Private Contractors, Private Security Firms, Private Security Iraq
US Paid $32 Million For Iraqi Base That Was Never Built
USA Today | Matt Kelley | December 14, 2007 09:52 AM
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Iraq, Iraq Bases, Iraq Defense Ministry, Iraq Fraud, Iraq Reconstruction, Iraq War, Private Contractors, War In Iraq, Warwire
Selling Off Our States: The Pitfalls of Privatization
Joel Barkin | Posted December 13, 2007 | Politics
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Accenture, Afscme, Bechtel, Blackwater, Halliburton, Private Contractors, Privatization, State Privatization
When it comes to the problem of privatization, we don't even know the half of it.
With all the attention currently focused on the perils of privatization at the federal level in the wake of the Blackwater debacle and the war profiteering sprees by Halliburton, Bechtel, and the like, scant...
Contractors Say They Will Stay Despite Lack of Immunity: Want to Bet Our Soldiers' Lives On It?
Dina Rasor | Posted December 12, 2007 | Politics
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Contractor Employees, Contractor Immunity, Iraq, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War, Iraq War Contractors, Kbr, Private Contractors, Uniform Code Of Military Justice, War Service Industry
Right now, Iraq's parliament is considering removing immunity from U.S. security contractors or possibly all U.S. contractor personnel. Some contractor employees have told the Los Angeles Times that they would stay and work anyway. Want to bet our troops lives on it? After the Iraqi police throw the first...
Calif. City Planners Set To Lose Posts For Backing Blackwater Camp
New York Times | SOLOMON MOORE | December 11, 2007 01:45 PM
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Home From Iraq, Still Not Safe
Rebecca Hagler | Posted December 10, 2007 | Politics
I am a 32-year-old Army reservist stationed at Fort Bragg N.C, working for two- and three-star generals. I received orders to deploy to Iraq in September 2006, my first deployment to a combat zone. Even though I was a single mother, I greatly believe in the importance of serving my...
Employee Accuses Halliburton Of Covering Up Rape In Iraq
ABC's The Blotter | BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER & JUSTIN ROOD | December 10, 2007 11:08 AM
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Baghdad, Halliburton, Iraq, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War, Kbr, Private Contractors, Rape, The Green Zone
The GOP Iraq War: Follow the Money
Dan Agin | Posted December 5, 2007 | Politics
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Al Qaeda, Bush Iraq, Darth Vader, Department Of Defense, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Halliburton, Iraq, Iraq Contractors, Iraq Surge, Iraq Veterans, Iraq War, Iraq War Contractors, Iraq War Funding, National Institutes Of Health, Private Contractors, Private Security Contractors
So far, the Republican Grand Old Party Iraq War has apparently cost the American people $475 billion -- in addition to 3800 or so dead, maybe 10,000 seriously wounded, many of them with missing limbs or brain injuries.
Bush the Younger originally went to war to topple Saddam Hussein...
Stop Blackwater Investigation "IMMEDIATELY"
AP | Richard Lardner | November 26, 2007 08:28 PM
State Department Official Removes Himself From Blackwater Investigation
Seattle Times | Warren P. Strobel | November 15, 2007 09:45 AM
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Baghdad, Blackwater, Blackwater USA, Breaking News, Breaking Politics News, Iraq, Iraq Blackwater, Iraq War, Private Contractors, Private Security, War Contractors
"They Just Killed A Man And Drove Away"
New York Times | James Glanz | November 11, 2007 11:03 PM
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A Story Ignored: Body Armor Executive Indicted for Massive Fraud
Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted November 7, 2007 | Politics
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Body Armor, Contractors, Corruption, David Brooks, David H. Brooks, Enron, Greed, Iraq, Louise Slaughter, Pentagon, Point Blank, Point Blanke Solutions, Private Contractors, Profiteering, Sandra Hatfield, War
Two weeks ago, I learned of the indictment of David H. Brooks, the founder and former CEO of Point Blank Solutions, Inc., and its COO Sandra Hatfield for insider trading, fraud, obstruction of justice, and tax evasion to the tune of nearly $200 million dollars.
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