Friday, May 07, 2004

Attention Non-Whorish Senators You might just want to ask Rummy about this: 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. In a sign of continued problems with the tracking of contracts, Pentagon officials on Thursday acknowledged they have yet to identify which Army entity manages the multimillion-dollar contract for interrogators like the one accused in the Iraq prisoner abuse probe. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld also acknowledged his department hasn't completed rules to govern the 20,000 or so private security guards watching over U.S. officials, installations and private workers in Iraq. No single Pentagon office tracks how many people - Americans, Iraqis or others - are on the department's payroll in Iraq. And now its time to request another $25 Billion $50 Billion.
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