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• Cashing In: Ex-Officers Double As Paid Military Mentors And Contractor Consultants

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 781
  Under a newly revealed arrangement that makes the famous "revolving door" seem quaint, retired military officers are simultaneously drawing paychecks both from the government and from private sector businesses gunning for Pentagon contracts, according to a USA Today investigation . A defense consulting firm out ...
  16 hours ago

• Top 5 Natl Security List Misses a Few

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 795
  Its that time of year for Five Best and Ten Worst lists. And whether its best and worst movies or best and worse politicians, everybody will find at least one choice on every list that s/he thinks should not have been there. Or should have been switched from the best to the worst category, and vice versa. For ...
  2 days ago

• Cool Stuff: Merry Christmas Feral Jundis!!!

  
  Feral Jundi — Authority: 138
      Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all you hard charging Feral Jundis out there. May your next contract or current contract, be the best contract you have ever had, and that you make it home alive and in one piece to spend that hard earned money!      Here’s to those of you that do things right, when ...
  6 days ago

• Blackwater, Already On The Ground In Afghanistan, Now Gunning For More Contracts

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 781
  It looks like the Obama Administration just cant quit the company formerly known as Blackwater. A Xe official told the Commission on Wartime Contracting Friday that the company has contracts for security as well as for training Afghan police and a "drug interdiction unit." Xe is also in the running for more work ...
  1 week ago

• Plight of contractor raped in Iraq spurs…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 502
  Plight of contractor raped in Iraq spurs push in Congress. Under a proposal before Congress, the federal government would not be able to do business with companies with $1 million or more in contracts that require the people they hire to agree to arbitration for claims of assault, false imprisonment or emotional ...
  1 week ago

• New Rules For U.S. Contractors In War Zones

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  Jamie Leigh Jones has returned to Washington from Houston. Photo from ABC News Plight Of Contractor Raped In Iraq Spurs Push In Congress -- McClatchy News WASHINGTON — Four years ago, Jamie Leigh Jones, a 20-year old Texas contract employee working in Iraq, was drugged, stripped, beaten and gang-raped by ...
  1 week ago

• Publications: CNAS–Contractors in American Conflicts, by John Nagl and Richard Fontaine

  
  Feral Jundi — Authority: 138
     Ok folks, this is pretty important.  CNAS, like I have mentioned before, has the ears of the guys that advise the President on matters like this one.  As you can see, John Nagl is personally involved on this working paper, and you can read his stamp all over this thing. I have been waiting for this paper for ...
  1 week ago

• Auditors challenge $1 billion in Afghanistan costs (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 472
  AP – A Senate subcommittee says Pentagon auditors have challenged nearly $1 billion in charges by military contractors in Afghanistan. Read the original post: (AP)"> (AP)">Auditors challenge $1 billion in Afghanistan costs (AP)
  1 week ago

• Auditors challenge $1 billion in Afghanistan costs (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AP - A Senate subcommittee says Pentagon auditors have challenged nearly $1 billion in charges by military contractors in Afghanistan.
  1 week ago

• Dem Rep Launches Probe Of Alleged Contractor Payments To Taliban

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 781
  Private security contractors in Afghanistan are being accused of paying protection money to warlords and the Taliban along convoy routes, prompting an investigation by a House oversight committee. Walter Pincus at the Washington Post has the story this morning. The staff of Rep. John Tierney (D-MA) has begun an ...
  1 week ago

• McCaskill On Afghan War Contractors: ‘We’re Competing Against Ourselves’

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 159
  by Justin Elliot TPM Muckraker Sen. Claire McCaskill ( D-MO ) said today that the military may be paying Afghan contractors so much that they are dissuaded from joining the country’s army or police force, dealing a blow to the American strategy of building up local forces. We reported earlier this week ...
  2 weeks ago

• McCaskill On Afghan War Contractors: Were Competing Against Ourselves

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 781
  Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said today that the military may be paying Afghan contractors so much that they are dissuaded from joining the countrys army or police force, dealing a blow to the American strategy of building up local forces. We reported earlier this week that as many as 56,000 new contractors will be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Afghanistan: Up To 56,000 More Contractors Likely For Afghanistan, CRS Says

  
  Feral Jundi — Authority: 138
     This is a continuation from yesterday’s post about the  CRS report .  You don’t hear this figure in all the crazy surge talk, but you sure do hear a lot about the troop surge or civilian surge.  I guess we are not surge-worthy? lol    What I thought was interesting in the report, is that they don’t ...
  2 weeks ago

• The other Afghan surge – New troops will…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 502
  The other Afghan surge – New troops will be accompanied by up to 56,000 new ‘private contractors.’ a
  2 weeks ago

• DOD: Obamas Afghan Surge Will Rely Heavily On Private Contractors

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 781
  Private contractors will make up at least half of the total military workforce in Afghanistan going forward, according to Defense Department officials cited in a new congressional study. As President Obamas escalation of the war in Afghanistan unfolds, the number of contractors will likely jump by between 16,000 and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blackwater’s Participation in CIA Raids Raises Critical Questions

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  The news on Friday that Blackwater Worldwide (now known as Xe Services) participated in clandestine CIA operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that included targeted killings, kidnapping and “extraordinary renditions” raised more questions than it answered. After all, we already knew that the U.S. government has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Op-Ed Columnist: Going Naked in Kabul

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Gail Collins
  2 weeks ago

• C.I.A. Drops a Contractor: Blackwater

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 170
  The contract gave the company an operational role in one of the agency’s most significant covert programs.
  2 weeks ago

• C.I.A. Drops a Contractor: Blackwater

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The contract gave the company an operational role in one of the agency’s most significant covert programs.
  2 weeks ago

• NYT > World: C.I.A. Drops a Contractor: Blackwater

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 474
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The contract gave the company an operational role in one of the agency’s most significant covert programs.
  2 weeks ago

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