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He was also the congressman who introduced the legislation that launched the commission on wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Three years later, he initiated a probe that uncovered an extortion racket initiated by U.S. contractors…
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Bringing to mind the category of funding that the Commission on Wartime Contracting had noted in its final report back in 2011, the one that showed a total expense of $38 billion, they were hiding it under a different line. That particular …
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in the Iraq war was a bonanza. Some commentators depended on facts out of the final report of the Commission on Wartime Contracting, which included both the Iraq and Afghanistan war, and estimated that all associated multi-billion dollar co…
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that had no regulation and no accountability. A concerned members of Congress commission on wartime contracting commented that the presence of such large firms as private contractors would increase the chances that people acting in the name…
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as it was consistent with the secrecy of a national security state. In August 2011, after three years of studying federal contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Commission on Wartime Contracting issued a final report that sent a message o…
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And the foreword began, quote, contractors represent more than half of the U.S. presence in the contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, at times employing more than a quarter million people. It ended with a strident warning. Delay a…
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For those following the saga of private military contractors, Eisenberg praised the hard work of the commissioners, who had conducted numerous hearings and hundreds of interviews, had traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan, and had worked out of …
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Other parts just didn't seem possible. For example, the category of spending called miscellaneous foreign contractors totaled $38 billion out of $206 billion spent on contracts since 2002. The commissioners could not determine what that cat…
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for the job of managing the U.S. presence in Iraq and Afghanistan after troop withdrawals. The commissioners claimed the State Department had not made necessary changes for good governance of private contractors. It would soon have the auth…
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An earlier study had shown that many of the contractor abuse in Iraq for the first several years were caused by those working for the State Department, not the Pentagon. The commissioners stressed that this could result in significant addit…
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This was because the government's figures were based on insurance claims and many foreign contractor employees from third parties may have been unaware of they even had an insurance capability. Because they didn't speak English. Of equal co…
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If the embassy were to be attacked, the guards would be responsible for telling hundreds of English-speaking occupants what to do, and they couldn't communicate. DynCorp and INRIS also hired workers from third world nations, especially Afri…
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in contingency operations, and they believe that the post of these civilian officials responsible for contingency contracting at DOD, State, and USAID should be elevated in the government. There should also be a permanent inspector general.…
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likened it to elitism in the financial services industry. Because the U.S. government relied only on a handful of contractors to provide most of the support for contingencies, this reliance potentially represented a situation analogous to t…
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Because government agencies lacked organic capability to perform all necessary functions American foreign policy demanded. Well, then maybe we should change our foreign policy. The U.S. government was, quote unquote, forced to treat contrac…
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The need for reform is urgent. The last line of the report was the nation's security demands nothing less than sweeping reform, unquote. Because of the commissioner's report and all that it revealed about the U.S. dependence on private mili…