U.S. Wasting Billions While Tripling No-Bid Contracts

USA's brug af contractors møder intern kritik.

Brugen af private firmaer, de såkaldte contractors, i genopbygningen af Irak og Afghanistan har i lang tid været en kontroversiel praksis. I mandags bragte Huffington Post en artikel hvor vi lærer, at contractors som har svindlet for anseelige summer igen bliver hyret til at udføre arbejde for den amerikanske regering da tilsynet med dem er ringe og mødt af mange forhindringer.

Pentagon Paid Billions To Contractors Suspended For Fraud.

"The military paid a total of $285 billion to more than 100 contractors between 2007 and '09, even though those same companies were defrauding taxpayers in the same period, according to a new Defense Department report.

What's perhaps most shocking is that billions of dollars went to contractors who had been either suspended or debarred for misusing taxpayer funds. The Pentagon also spent $270 billion on 91 contractors involved in civil fraud cases that resulted in judgments of more than $1 million. Another $682 million went to 30 contractors convicted of criminal fraud."

Huffington Post: Pentagon Paid Billions To Contractors Suspended For Fraud.

Contractors research

US Contractor Accused of Fraud Still Winning Big Afghan Projects.
Blackwater's Black Ops.
SourceWatch: Private Military Corporations
BlackwaterWatch - Press coverage of Blackwater.
Cowboy Contractors: Armed and Dangerous.
This Year, Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan.