New ArmorGroup Revelations: Fraud, Schemes, Prostitution
WASHINGTON — Former managers for the security contractor protecting the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan said Thursday the company lowballed its bid ...
WASHINGTON — Former managers for the security contractor protecting the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan said Thursday the company lowballed its bid ...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
I have less and less respect for the way our civilian leaders lack the courage to tell the truth about our wars.
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The CIA hired private contractors from Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill top-level members of al-Qaida, bu...
Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
Fraud is rampant in Afghanistan just as it has been in Iraq--and if you thought enforcement was lax in Iraq, you've seen nothing yet.
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.
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — The American security firm once known as Blackwater ended its operations in the diplomatic hub of Baghdad on Thursday, bringing to a c...
Washington Times | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
Days after the Baghdad government decided it no longer wanted the company then known as Blackwater in Iraq, the State Department signed a $22.2 millio...
Tim Shorrock and Frank Naif | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics
The Obama transition team's highly anticipated announcement of its new national security lineup has telling omissions: there's no Director of National Intelligence or CIA Director.
AP | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics
NEW YORK — Inferior electrical work by private contractors on U.S. military bases in Iraq is more widespread than the Pentagon has acknowledged,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
Over at Muckraked, we get news that "a panel of whistleblowers" testifying before a Senate committee yesterday dropped a dime on their employer, milit...
AP | MATT APUZZO and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities investigating Blackwater Worldwide contractors are returning to Baghdad this week to revisit the scene of a dea...
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Under pressure to exercise greater control over private security contractors in Iraq, Bush administration officials outlined strict...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
While hundreds of thousands of citizens were fleeing Southern California's wildfires in October, Blackwater USA was charging back in. While the fire...
New York Times | James Glanz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
An Iraqi taxi driver was shot and killed on Saturday by a guard with DynCorp International, a private security company hired to protect American diplo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A group of House members and one Senator came together on Tuesday to introduce the "Stop Outsourcing Security Act," a bill that will give pink slips t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A tug of war has broken out between Congress and the Bush administration over legislation that would put private security contractors on a shorter leg...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The congressional vice-grip is tightening on Blackwater and other contracted defense firms. Next Wednesday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) will introduce...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House oversight committee, said Thursday that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has issued an order requiring hi...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Congress is moving to put all armed contractors operating in combat zones under military control, acting on a Pentagon recommendation that could run i...
The New York Times | James Glanz, Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Michael Kamber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Fresh accounts of the Blackwater shooting last month, given by three rooftop witnesses and by American soldiers who arrived shortly after the gunfire ...
AP | FISNIK ABRASHI and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Afghan authorities this week shut down two private security companies and said more than 10 others _ some suspected of murder and robbery _ would soon...
AP | SINAN SALAHEDDIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Guards in a security convoy opened fire on a car at an intersection in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two Christian women, police said. Separatel...
AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics