Aegis contract audit event
also: audit of Aegis, first audit of Aegis
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▶ 5:34
was one that understood what was at stake here and loaned Aegis its armored vehicles, loaned with a big payment. Anyone in the business that had any hint of sophistication knew we had to be in this together if we were all going to succeed. …
▶ 5:59
Inspector General for Iraq's Reconstruction, an office created by Congress to oversee the billions of dollars allocated for the rebuilding of Iraq, issued its first audit of Aegis. This was an early assessment to determine whether the compa…
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However, the auditors also pointed out there were serious problems in key areas. Quote, there is no assurance that Aegis is providing the best possible safety and security for government and reconstruction contractors, personnel, and facili…
▶ 6:59
According to the audit, a random survey of 20 employees showed that there had been 30 weapons issued, including AK-47s and M4 assault rifles, and yet the company did not have the documentation to show that any more than six of the 20 had ev…
▶ 8:23
and largely irrelevant to the vetting process because of the current dysfunctional state of the Iraqi government. So, because we don't know who we're hiring, it's all the Iraqi government's fault. There were more criticisms, such as shoddy …
▶ 8:54
Doug Brooks, the head of the International Peace Operations Association, the industry trade group in the United States, told the press that he considered the auditor's criticism fairly minor. So we don't know who we're hiring. They're not t…
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On the very day that the audit was released, six Blackwater employees were killed when their helicopter was shot down north of Baghdad. The next day, the U.S. contractor Halliburton told the media that insurgent attacks were so intense it m…
▶ 9:50
That is, how hard it must have been to accomplish all that the company had, given its short duration of time even existing. But others were less forgiving. U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin, issued a statement to the pre…
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of the way taxpayer dollars are being spent in Iraq. In subsequent interviews, he said there were no excuse for the substandard vetting and that the combination of poor weapons training with employees who may or may not be competent and rel…