Pentagon was warned in 2002 of contractors

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4923442/

Abuse scandal includes use of private interrogators
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:07 a.m. ET May 07, 2004

WASHINGTON - A year before the Iraq invasion, the then-Army secretary warned his Pentagon bosses that there was inadequate control of private military contractors, which are now at the heart of controversies over misspending and prisoner abuse.

The author of that memo, retired Army chief Thomas White, told The Associated Press that the recent events show the Pentagon has a long way to go to fix the problems he identified in March 2002.

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is going to do what it is going to do, no matter what!

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Send Rush Packing

Bush: "I do not need to explain why I say things. — That's the interesting thing about being the President. — Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation."

QUICK!!

Ammo about contractors!!

but I was planning a call on the UNDERLYING scandal here

it's not A FEW BAD APPLES

it's PRIVATIZATION (read: WAR PROFITS for BUSH friends)

that is why this was allowed to happen... and THAT is why bushco is trying to hide. they can't hide the pictures but, they have to focus on their "bad apples" defense to keep the heat off the $$$ his friends are making off this utterly phoney "war"

But will this stick to chimpy? God I hope so.

idiotic, lying, incompetent, scheming, f*** ups.

WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN?

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Military can't track contract
Pentagon officials said Thursday they have not determined which agency oversees the contract, which originally was with the Premier Technology Group, a smaller company providing contract interrogators that CACI bought last May.

“We haven’t been able to find anyone who knows what contract that was,” said Deborah Parker, a spokeswoman for the Army’s Intelligence and Security Command. Parker said her agency did not hire any contract interrogators.

CACI in March landed an $11.9 million contract with the Army’s European Command for “intelligence analyst support services,” which includes providing intelligence operatives for the global war on terrorism.

Pentagon officials said they did not know whether the CACI workers in Iraq were under a predecessor to that contract, which was not in effect at the time of the alleged abuse last fall.
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Are you going to tell me that if anyone else was this damn imcompetent and crazy, they'd be allowed to keep their jobs? And while I'm thinking about it, if they can't find a contract, that might mean that THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOESN'T OWE THEM ONE DAMN CENT.
Someone might want to point this out to our representatives in Washington.