Jan Schakowsky person
also: Jan Sikowski, Sikowsky, Jan Sikowsky, Schakowsky, Stokowski, Representative Jan Sikowsky, Shazikowski, Salkowski, Jan Skowakowski
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Jan Schakowsky opposed
Blackwater documented
“the guest legislator that day. Schakowsky had come to the hearing that day to proclaim her opposition to Prince and his company, as well as all other companies like his. She wanted to meet the man whom she considered a modern-day mercenary …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 5 @ 35:10
Jan Schakowsky investigated
Plan Colombia documented
“spent six days in Colombia investigating a $1.3 billion U.S. operation called Plan Colombia. We've talked about this before. This was supposed to be a counter-narcotics program focusing on killing drug crops. But because a large plan of thi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 5 @ 37:34
Jan Schakowsky member_of
U.S. Congress documented
“was still determined to expose the facts of the industry, repeatedly telling the press and Congress that hiding the truth about these companies and keeping the knowledge of their force hidden was damaging the nation. She was persistent and …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 34:46
Jan Schakowsky recruited
Bernie Sanders documented
“teamed up with Senator Sanders, that's Bernie Sanders, again to reintroduce the Stop Outsourcing Security Act, first introduced in 2007. For the advocates of banning armed contractors through legislative action, no industry was too big to c…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 7 @ 17:36
Jan Schakowsky exposed
Blackwater documented
“The Nation headline article said Blackwater's new sugar daddy, the Obama administration. Sikowsky's drive to expose the hidden details of the industry was largely Blackwater inspired, a drive that moved into high gear in the autumn of 2011 …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 45:44
Jan Schakowsky exposed
International Peace Operations Association book_quoted
“over the private military contractors. Among them was Illinois Jan Sikowski, who remained frustrated as ever by the challenging of collecting basic information about the industry. There are still no good numbers, she said, and without data,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 10 Final @ 15:20
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Well, they suck at that job. U.S. Representative Jan Skowakowski, a Democrat from Illinois, had indicated that there were, in fact, combat missions that they were flying. And they supposedly had an objective of stamping out the quote-unquot…
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over the private military contractors. Among them was Illinois Jan Sikowski, who remained frustrated as ever by the challenging of collecting basic information about the industry. There are still no good numbers, she said, and without data,…
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From her perspective, by 2012, the armed sector of the business could be controlled by placing it under direct control of a new chain of U.S. command. Her biggest worry was the same as it had been in 2007. We have here a war-making capabili…
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viewed them as weapons. Doing this could attract the kind of attention to the topic that it deserved. The way it works is that we must use them before someone else does. That's just crazy. In that way, we are most certainly, they are most c…
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No, they're mercenaries. There's nothing complicated about it at all. As the testimony of Blackwater's CEO showed and the response of some committee members, private military companies were successfully cultivating relationships with lawmak…
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the guest legislator that day. Schakowsky had come to the hearing that day to proclaim her opposition to Prince and his company, as well as all other companies like his. She wanted to meet the man whom she considered a modern-day mercenary …
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be the only one who had come to the hearing with a plan of action. Her idea for oversight was simple, ban them. In her opening statement, she said, I want to let everyone know that I am shortly going to be introducing legislation to careful…
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We need a conversation in this Congress, and I am hoping my legislation will provide that. When she unveiled her plan to end America's new dependence on private military corporations, she had been in politics for 15 years, eight in the Illi…
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to put expiration dates on food products. And as a Congresswoman, her causes range from all kinds of different things. She was a petite woman of Russian Jewish descent who was considered one of the most progressive politicians in Congress. …
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though paid for by the American taxpayers. That was what most concerned Stokowski and McGovern. Estimates at the time was that there were 200 U.S. military personnel in Columbia, mostly working as trainers, and 170 American contractors, man…
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Washington now employs hundreds of contract employees through U.S. corporations to carry out its policy in Colombia and other countries, while the new privateers are underwritten by U.S. taxpayer dollars. Like the 16th century pirates, if t…
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and accountability issues have not been resolved, followed by legislative proposals, no result. This is the pattern prior to Nassau Square. In May 2004, following the tortures at Abu Ghraib and the Fallujah disaster, she wrote a letter to P…
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challenge was never ending. And by the way, this is on purpose, guys. This is not an oversight. They had had hearings. They know what they're doing. That's why they pay PR people and lobbyists to ensure the laws are written to exclude them.…
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to provide Congress copies of all contracts and task orders in excess of $5 million. This bill would die in committee as well. But months later, after the Nazor Square, she thought the prospects had improved for such legislation. Thus, at t…
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The law would restore the responsibility of the American military to train troops and police to guard convoys, to repair weapons, to administer police prisons, and to perform military intelligence. Sikowsky told the media it would require t…
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If they were critical missions, they should be done by the military. The bill demanded that government agencies with military and security contractors on payroll files report the cost of each contract, as well as the number of contractors e…
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to a democracy and hiring private contractors for U.S. defense and security was too great and that they needed to be phased out. Representing a more centrist view was Representative Price, who acknowledged the possible permanence of the pri…
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who promoted the view that the industry played a crucial role in American and international security. This was the leave everything alone approach. Leave the private military companies alone and let them do whatever the government and corpo…
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contractors outsource their own work. Who was really providing the armed security for America? In other words, who were the subcontractors? If Blackwater saved money by hiring people from third world nations where the military had conducted…
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has to have a high public trust clearance. It's basically a security clearance from a third country national soldier where you take their name, it goes back through the U.S. Embassy in the country, and their name is run. Kind of like a nati…
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was indicted in Chile for his role in supplying commandos to serve Blackwater. Is that correct? Prince responds, he was not an associate. He might have been a vendor for us. In other words, I'm going to outsource my recruitment of these CIA…
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working on that, doing the private security company's mission, are required to have a security clearance. She responds, did any Chilean contractor get a security clearance? And he finally says, I don't know. She then says, because if yes, t…
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There was a recent one. There was a jobs fair advertised in Bucharest. And we have heard allegations that Blackwater recruited Serbians and former Yugoslavs with combat experience from the Balkan wars. Some linked to atrocities committed in…
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She would then ask him, would you know if people have been associated with Pinochet or Milosevic before you hired them? Is that part of your inquiry? He said again, as I said before, for the State Department, for the static guards that were…
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She was the last of the legislators to question Prince. When she was done, Chairman Waxman closed the questioning by expressing gratitude to Prince and his patients. Then he said, in closing, let me just say that we really have had a remark…
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and its foreign policy, which is why his government banned all mercenary activities in South Africa in 1998, and why executive outcomes left South Africa and moved to London. In the United States, by 2010, the cause to phase out private mil…
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33,000 by 2015. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced the plan in April of 2009, but only 16 months later, it was gone. He told the press that he was not satisfied with the progress. Dispelling past defeats, Representative Jan Sikowsk…
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was still determined to expose the facts of the industry, repeatedly telling the press and Congress that hiding the truth about these companies and keeping the knowledge of their force hidden was damaging the nation. She was persistent and …
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We are hoping these cases will make a difference, serve as deterrents, draw attention to the need for heightened accountability. But by now, nearly nine years after the beginning of the Iraq war, we're still facing how to make companies acc…
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The Nation headline article said Blackwater's new sugar daddy, the Obama administration. Sikowsky's drive to expose the hidden details of the industry was largely Blackwater inspired, a drive that moved into high gear in the autumn of 2011 …
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The game was set in a fictional town in North Africa, and it featured a team of Blackwater operatives depicted as heroes. According to Tunsing, when the reporter asked Sikowsky to comment on the game, she said, among other things, if Mr. Pr…
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This included funding famine relief in Somalia and the Sudan and contributing to building hospital schools and orphanages and churches in the Middle East and Asia. She went on to say that Sikowsky's statement to the publication was libelous…
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just like the Aegis, Blackwater, they all set up foundations, just like George Soros, just like the Ford Foundation, just like the Carnegie Endowment for War Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, so that they can fall back on that to over…
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Sikowsky described the contents of the lawyer's letter to her, talking in a self-assured tone as if reminding her colleagues in Congress that she would not be silenced. She called it heavy-handed tactic, attempted intimidation of a member o…