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Defense contractors and their sex crimes go unreported and unpunished

By Ms Sparky | Filed in Combat Support Ass. (CSA), GOV. CONTRACTORS, Huffington Post, LOGCAP III - KBR, LOGCAP IV - KBR, LOGCAP-Dyncorp, LOGCAP-Fluor, Rape, Hazing, Discrimination & Harassment, Security Contractors, Stanley Baker Hill (SBH), TENG & Assoc, Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Violations

David Isenberg: PMC and Sex Crimes

David Isenberg – Huffington Post
Author, Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq (Praeger Security International)
Posted: April 21, 2010 12:07 PM

On April 16 the Department of Defense Inspector General released a report that nobody has been talking about. Allow me to be the first. Perhaps we should subtitle it the crime that dare not speak its name, as it deals with a topic that most private military contractors (PMC) generally don’t talk about publicly.

The title of the report is “Efforts to Prevent Sexual Assault/Harassment Involving DOD Contractors During Contingency Operations.” .

My first thought is how is it that some contractors can’t seem to keep it in their pants? This is an issue that seems to keep happening over the years; from the days when DynCorp contractors were involved in a sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia when employees and supervisors engaged in sex with 12 to 15 year old children, and sold them to each other as slaves to the gang-rape of Jamie Leigh Jones a former KBR employee who claimed that seven KBR employees drugged and gang-raped her on July 28, 2005 at Camp Hope, Baghdad, Iraq.

For those who like to dismiss such things as isolated occurrences just head on over to the “Rape, Hazing, Discrimination & Harassment” section of Ms. Sparky’s blog and you will be promptly disabused of such a notion. Read the remainder of this entry »

Tags: David Isenberg*, Discrimination, DoD*, DoDIG*, Harassment, Inspector General-DoD*, Jamie Leigh Jones, Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, U.S. Dept. of Defense*

Combat Support Associates (CSA) employees seek class action in Kuwait (update)

By Ms Sparky | Filed in Combat Support Ass. (CSA), GOV. CONTRACTORS, LAWSUITS

Updated: 3/2/2010 – When this person Orlando Turner contacted me I did my best to check him out. He seemed “balanced” and the information he gave checked out. I thought his class action claims against CSA were valid and I still do, because there are just too many people complaining about abuses and fraud. After he went to Kuwait to talk to an attorney I didn’t hear back from him. Nothing! Evidently there were other domestic issues going on that I was unaware of, thank God! From what I understand, Mr. Turner evidently went to Kuwait and threatened to blow up the Philippine Embassy among other things. Commenter “Zero Tolerance” left links to various news article about this in the comments.

I apologize. I have to say, I’m not so easily fooled, but I sure didn’t see that one coming! If anyone else wants to pick up the Class Action ball and you don’t have any plans to commit any acts of terrorism let me know.

Ms Sparky

I have not heard from this person since he went to Kuwait to meet with this attorney. I have sent several emails and have been told he has not responded to others emails. I am removing the contact form until I hear something. If anyone else is pursuing legal action against CSA let me know. I check this guy out as a former CSA employee who indeed was pursuing a Class Class Action. I just don’t know what happened to him after he went to Kuwait.

Any current or former Combat Support Associates (CSA) employees in Kuwait interested in information regarding a potential class action suit against them please fill out the contact form below. This form does not go to “Ms Sparky”. It will go to the people organizing the suit.

(Contact form temporarily removed)

Tags: Combat Support Ass. (CSA), LAWSUITS

Defense contractors must now air dirty deeds in public

By Ms Sparky | Filed in Agility/PWC/GCC, Combat Support Ass. (CSA), Franken Amendment*, GOV. CONTRACTORS, LOGCAP III - KBR, LOGCAP-Dyncorp, LOGCAP-Fluor, Rape, Hazing, Discrimination & Harassment, Security Contractors, Stanley Baker Hill (SBH), TENG & Assoc

Defense contractors such as KBR can no longer hide behind the closed doors of secret binding arbitration for serious issues such as discrimination, harassment, rape and assault. No longer with KBR and others be able to violate Title VII Laws and then just sweep them under the rug behind closed doors. Those abusive criminal managers who have been in place for years are finally going to cost them some money and Heather Browne, KBR’s Communications Director is going to be working overtime. Well done, Jamie Leigh Jones and thank you Al Franken for taking these issue seriously. Hopefully this is just the first in a series of laws to protect defense contractor employees.

For those who respond to every dispute or disagreement here on MsSparky.com with “You signed a contract”. You can’t sign away law! Read the remainder of this entry »

Tags: DynCorp*, Employee Issues-KBR, Fluor*, Franken Amendment*, Jamie Leigh Jones

Ms Sparky – wrapping up 2009

By Ms Sparky | Filed in Combat Support Ass. (CSA), GOV. CONTRACTORS, LOGCAP III - KBR, LOGCAP-Dyncorp, LOGCAP-Fluor, Stanley Baker Hill (SBH), Task Force SAFE

Before I give you all the “Mosts for 2009″ I want to share some 2009 “MsSparky.com” stats with you . I realize these stats would be considered a failure for blogs such as the Huffington Post, but MsSparky.com has come a long way since I started keeping stats in June 2008 and I am very proud of that. It is “MsSparky.com” readers, commentors and guest writers (THANK YOU Forseti) who have contributed to these stats which ultimately results in getting the word out about KBR and contractor fraud in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait!

My goal for 2010 is to have numbers at least 5 times greater than 2009!

Month/Year	Unique Visitors	Total # of Visits	Total # of Pages Viewed	Hits
June 2008	171	520	3,538	7,133
January 2009	4,728	9,155	29,391	144,978
December 2009	23,014	48,392	558,638	1,691,847
Total for 2009	112,963	245,021	1,295,953	4,722,183

Technorati.com is a blog tracking and rating site. I tried to find the official number of blogs they tracked in 2009 and didn’t find it. But in 2008 it was over 113 million just English speaking blogs. I am expecting 2009 to be in the 100′s of millions of English speaking blogs. My Technorati Authority (rating) is 135. That puts MsSparky.com in the top 20,000 blogs that Technorati tracks. Yes….the Huffington Post is #1. Read the remainder of this entry »

Tags: Combat Support Ass. (CSA), DynCorp*, SBH, Task Force SAFE, Wrapping up 2009

Obama tightens reins on contractors

By Forseti | Filed in Agility/PWC/GCC, Combat Support Ass. (CSA), GOV. CONTRACTORS, LOGCAP III - KBR, LOGCAP-Dyncorp, LOGCAP-Fluor, Politics, Security Contractors, Senate & House Committee Hearings

Obama By: Mike Allen
December 21, 2009 10:23 AM EST

Ahead of remarks Monday by President Barack Obama about making government more efficient and effective, the White House Office of Management and Budget released details of the administration’s drive to tighten the government’s contracting practices.

“This is a situation that would never exist in a business,” Jeff Zients, federal chief performance officer and OMB deputy director for management, told reporters on a conference call. “A business that had these kind of practices would have been out of business a long time ago. I believe we’re off to a really fast start here. There’s a lot of work to be done. And we’re going to clean up the situation and make sure there’s no waste, and we save as much money as possible.” Read the remainder of this entry »

Tags: DynCorp*, Fluor*, KBR Contract, LOGCAP, Politics, Reports & Investigations