War Contractors

Will Blackwater Ever Do Right?

Max Stanley | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Invasion, Erik Prince, Blackwater, War Costs, War Profiteers, XE Services, War Contractors, Brave New Foundation, Academi, Politics News

It was like a meaningless coda, as the war contractors at Blackwater USA changed its name again, two weeks after delivering Katy Helvenston-Wettengel another insult. She has been fighting for justice and accountability for the death of her son, a Blackwater employee.

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War and Private Contractors: Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them

David Isenberg | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Private Military Contractor, Commission on Wartime Contracting, Private Contractors, War, War Contractors, Defense Contractors, Business News

Anybody who was dreaming that that the military was going to divest itself of contractors can put that fantasy to rest. Now that the CWC has said the government is over-reliant on contractors, you can see that we have a bit of a contradiction.

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Report: Wartime Contractors Waste, Steal Tens Of Billions -- Then Come Back For More

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wartime Contractors, Contractors, Contractor Fraud, Commission on Wartime Contracting, War Contractors, Chris Shays, World News

WASHINGTON -- The chairmen of the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting decried on Monday a federal system that has allowed contractors in Iraq...

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Dana Priest's Expose On 'Top Secret America'

washingtonpost.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: u.s. Intelligence, Pentagon, Intelligence, Private Contractors, War Contractors, Defense Contractors, Dana Priest Story, Washington Post, Robert Gates, Dana Priest, Top Secret America, Politics News

The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive ...

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Cyberscares About Cyberwars Equal Cybermoney

Frida Berrigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Contractors, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Cyberterrorism, Cyber Czar, Obama Cyberattack, Politics News

Is the United States really in a hypercrisis that warrants putting the word "cyber" in front of everything and multibillions more in the pockets of military-industrial corporations?

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Is Halliburton Forgiven and Forgotten?

Pratap Chatterjee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Contractors, Kbr, Iraq War Contractors, Halliburton, Business News

How did Halliburton, once branded the ugly stepchild of Dick Cheney and a poster child of war profiteering, receive absolution from anti-war activists and the media?

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Command Responsibility

Ray Kimball | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Officers, Iraq Contractors, War Contractors, Iraq War Funding, Military Spending, Private Contractors, Defense Contractors, Politics News

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.

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Live Blogging With John Cusack This Afternoon at Crooks & Liars

Howie Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Inc., War Contractors, John Cusack, John Cusack's War Inc., Jeremy Pikser, Mark Leyner, Iraq, Socialists, Entertainment News

John Cusack and his colleagues have taken Eisenhower's 1961 warning and updated it into a chilling movie set in the not too distant future, at a time when, unfortunately, no one remembers what Ike said or why.

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Fraud Crackdown Comes With a Loophole

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, War Contractors, Warwire, Private Contractors, Contract Fraud, Iraq Fraud, Iraq Contractors, Afghanistan War, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A Bush administration plan to crack down on contract fraud has a multibillion-dollar loophole: The proposal to force companies to r...

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Private Iraq Contractors Employing Latin American Poor

LA Times | Patrick McDonnell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, War Contractors, Iraq Contractors, Warwire, Private Contractors, Iraq, War in Iraq, Politics News

Sometimes he wakes up with a shudder, thinking he needs to take cover, fast. At other moments he dreams he's running and the mortar shell strikes agai...

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Calif. City Planners Set To Lose Posts For Backing Blackwater Camp

New York Times | SOLOMON MOORE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Private Contractors, Blackwater Security Iraq, Blackwater Security, Iraq, Iraq Blackwater, Breaking News, War on Terror, War Contractors, Blackwater, Iraq War, War in Iraq, State Department Blackwater Bonuses, Breaking Politics News, Baghdad, Blackwater USA, Private Security, Warwire, Politics News

The scandal in Iraq involving Blackwater, the private security firm, is a world away from this tiny town near the Mexican border. But five members of ...

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Afghanistan: All Private Security Firms Must Close

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Private Security Firms, War Contractors, Afghanistan, Politics News

Authorities in Afghanistan want to close down all private security firms operating in the country, many of them illegally, President Hamid Karzai's of...

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State Department Official Removes Himself From Blackwater Investigation

Seattle Times | Warren P. Strobel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, War Contractors, Private Contractors, Blackwater, Breaking Politics News, Baghdad, Blackwater USA, Iraq Blackwater, Iraq, Private Security, Breaking News, Politics News

The State Department's embattled inspector general suddenly removed himself Wednesday from investigations into security contractor Blackwater Worldwid...

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$6 Billion In Iraq Contracts Under Criminal Investigation

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Contractors, Iraq Contracts, Iraq War Contractors, Politics News

Military officials said Thursday that contracts worth $6 billion to provide essential supplies to American troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan -- i...

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Iraq Expands Blackwater Investigation

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, War Contractors, Iraq, Iraq Blackwater, Blackwater, Politics News

Iraq's Interior Ministry has expanded its investigation into incidents involving Blackwater USA security guards amid the furor following a shooting th...

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Iraq To Eject Blackwater Over Killings

Time | ADAM ZAGORIN AND BRIAN BENNETT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Contractors, Iraq Contractors, Blackwater Ejected Iraq, Blackwater, Blackwater Iraq, Politics News

TIME has obtained an incident report prepared by the U.S. government describing a fire fight Sunday in Baghdad in which at least eight Iraqis were rep...

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Iraq Backing Off Blackwater Ejection

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Contractors, Iraq Contractors, Blackwater, Blackwater Iraq, Politics News

The United States on Tuesday suspended all land travel by U.S. diplomats and other civilian officials in Iraq outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Gree...

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