Marcy Kaptur person
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“and $48 million, almost twice as much. The upcoming contract, initial contract, was scheduled to be $475 million. Knowing that Aegis could end up with at least a billion dollars of American tax dollars, Kaptur initiated her own probe to lea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 26:06
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In the spring of 2007, as the deadline for the contract renewal was drawing near, seven U.S. senators, all Democrats, had signed on to ageist critiques. Among them was Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Chuck Schumer, Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy, Rus…
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Kaptur, K-A-P-T-U-R, a Democrat in office for nearly 25 years. As a member of the House Appropriations Committee subcommittee on defense, Kaptur had traveled to Iraq in February and after her return became an ardent advocate for diminishing…
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how hard it was to track the funds, how quickly privatization had happened. She said, we're in the wake of a speedboat. Congress can't even begin to catch up on the contracting. One of Kaptur's colleagues, Representative Henry Waxman, a Cal…
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including $292 million to AGES for Iraq reconstruction services. AGES was of particular interest to Representative Kaptur because of the upcoming contract renewal. The first contract AGES had signed had totaled $293 million. Added to that a…
▶ 26:06
and $48 million, almost twice as much. The upcoming contract, initial contract, was scheduled to be $475 million. Knowing that Aegis could end up with at least a billion dollars of American tax dollars, Kaptur initiated her own probe to lea…
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Very soon, however, it wouldn't really matter what the private military security contractors were called. Quote, everyone was busy trying to identify, label, vilify what was really part of the past, the dogs of war, unquote, said Congressma…
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The mercenary scare in Switzerland in August was an event of minor significance. For, as Kaptur said, things were happening on a grander scale, though unnoticed and greater ironies were taking shape. While President Obama told Americans abo…