By GINGER THOMPSON and JAMES RISEN
The New York Times
Published: December 8, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/washington/09blackwater.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=Blackwater&st=cse
WASHINGTON — In the first public airing of an investigation that remains the source of fierce international outrage, the Justice Department on Monday unsealed its case against five private security guards, built largely around the chilling testimony of a sixth guard about the 2007 shootings that left [...]
Blackwater Security Guards Indicted
Ken Larson on the Military Industrial Complex
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While we observe Wall Street go through an implosion and our lawmakers mortgage the future of America with the associated bailout, let us keep an eye on another adjacent and related tower with [...]
Indiana Guardsmen Sue Defense Contractor KBR for Exposing Them to Carcinogens in Iraq
By Farah Stockman, Boston Globe Staff | December 4, 2008
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/12/04/indiana_guardsmen_sue_defense_contractor_kbr?mode=PF
WASHINGTON – Sixteen Indiana national guardsmen filed a lawsuit yesterday accusing KBR, the Houston-based US defense contractor, of knowingly exposing them to “one of the most potent carcinogens” known to man while they guarded a water treatment plant in Iraq that the company was repairing.
The complaint alleges [...]
A Corporate Watch Report: Outsourcing Intelligence in Iraq
by Pratap Chatterjee
A Special Report from Corporate Watch
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15253
When U.S. troops or embassy officials want to track and investigate Iraqis — such as interrogating prisoners accused of terrorism, doing background checks on potential employees, or even to chat with ordinary citizens on the street — the principal intermediary is a relatively obscure company named L-3, that is [...]
General Barry McCaffrey: Pawn in the Military Industrial Complex
By DAVID BARSTOW of the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/washington/30general.html?_r=1
In the spring of 2007 a tiny military contractor with a slender track record went shopping for a precious Beltway commodity.
The company, Defense Solutions, sought the services of a retired general with national stature, someone who could open doors at the highest levels of government and help it [...]
