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Outsourcing intelligence
Boston Globe by James Carroll 08/27/07 The ways in which the Bush war has degraded the structures and culture of Iraq are obvious. Less so are its insidious effects on the United States, but President... ...
Iraq Corruption Whistleblowers Made to Suffer
According to The Associated Press, several whistleblowers have suffered harrowing consequences - ranging from ridicule, to loss of employment, to imprisonment and interrogation in a Baghdad compound -... ...
Mercenaries in Iraq Have Become U.S. Crutch
The expanded contractor use has evoked new attention to a 1995 criticism of the practice. According to the study, a Defense Department Commission on Roles and Missions found then that depending on contractors... ...
Defense agency proposing more outsourcing
MSNBC 08/19/07 The Defense Intelligence Agency is preparing to pay private contractors up to $1 billion to conduct core intelligence tasks of analysis and collection over the next five years, an amount... ...
Secrecy, Torture, Religious Zeal Distinguish Mercenaries
Paul Nyden, in an OP-ED for the West Virginia Gazette, writes: "The use of contractors, and their secrecy, shifts more and more authority from Congress to the White House, which makes its own decisions... ...
Flush with Profits: Military Contractors See a World of Business Opportunities
With almost no congressional oversight and even less public awareness, the Bush administration has more than doubled the size of the U.S. occupation through the use of private war companies. http://www.alt ernet.org/audits/59571/ From... ...
Contractors beyond the law in Iraq
Lincoln Journal Star 08/12/07 There are now nearly as many private contractors in Iraq as there are U.S. soldiers — and about half of them are private security guards equipped with automatic weapons,... ...
Labor Dept.: 1,001 Contractors Have Died in Iraq
The Houston Chronicle's David Ivanovich reports: "More than 1,000 civilian contractors have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion more than four years ago, according to Labor Department records... ...
Iraq bleeds US Treasury, enriches contractors
In January 2006, Joseph Stiglitz, a Columbia University professor who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001, and Linda Bilmes, a Harvard University budget expert, released a report estimating that... ...
The Mercenary Revolution: Flush With Profits From the Iraq War
A Very Private War http://www.commondream s.org/archive/2007/08/01/2 896/ -------- The Mercenary Revolution: Flush With Profits From the Iraq War Jeremy Scahill, of the Indypendent, reports: "With almost... ...