Comments on: Selling their souls to sole sourcing sparks another KBR sub-contractor investigation

By: triarri

triarri — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:17:33 +0000

Nothing will be done because they are former generals. It is a good ole’ boy/girl network where they take care of each other and cover up the improprieties/irregularities.

It is interesting what Another FYI has to say and history will agree with him. During the renaissance the Kings finally realized they needed to build National Armies or be at the mercy of mercenaries (contractors) who for the right amount of gold would switch sides. I guess we do not study history enough or would have realized we cannot afford to have so much of our logistics outsourced.

Which would cost less…hiring all the out of work Americans and putting them in uniform to provide the logistics required or paying the contractors to do it? We have created a lifestyle in Iraq that no army before has had and it requires an Army of Contractors to support it.

By: Another FYI

Another FYI — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:03:19 +0000

Agility has a network of logistics that make it impossible for the government to “fire them” no matter what the indictments and facts illustrate. The US government will likely give them a slap on the wrist, or contract with a Agility shell company that supposedly purchases the contract and operations. There is nobody in certain parts of the world to effectively replace them. The web of connectednmess ensures that they get the awards, the web of logistical strength will ultimately dictate whatever they want to do, and nations will either go to war or not, based upon what Agility and other contractors does for them at a price they dictate. The public made a big fuss about a shipyard in the US being potentially sold to a middle east co. where is the outcry concerning shipyard after shipyard, line after yard worldwide being controlled by potentially hostile entities? They literally are in a position to control the world.

By: Ms Sparky

Ms Sparky — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:38:49 +0000

That is just nasty. When was this happening and what did they do about? I have photos of SST trucks dumping right in the Tigris River as well.

By: FYI

FYI — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:25:38 +0000

Here is a link to contracts where Ecolog has a contract with the US Government for fiscal years 2000 through 2009:

http://www.fedspending.org/fpds/fpds.php?company_name=ecolog&sortp=r&detail=0&datype=T&reptype=r&database=fpds&fiscal_year=&submit=GO

Here is the same info for KBR:

http://www.fedspending.org/fpds/fpds.php?company_name=kbr&sortp=r&detail=0&datype=T&reptype=r&database=fpds&fiscal_year=&submit=GO

By: drno

drno — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:05:32 +0000

For the record the SST trucks in the picture are GP’d and operated directly by KBR at Camp Liberty… they dumped in the settlement pond when the pump station was blocked. To put it mildly it smelled so bad that it made your eyes water for weeks