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Taxpayers foot the bill for KBR attorneys at $750 per hour plus other outrageous perks

Ms Sparky — Wed, 23 May 2012 22:43:09 +0000

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Wyden: KBR is Wasting Taxpayer Money While Avoiding Responsibility for Exposure of Oregon Guard to Toxic Chemicals Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Washington, D.C. – In a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called on the DoD to investigate the excessive [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Leaked Memo: Afghan ‘Burn Pit’ Could Wreck Troops’ Hearts, Lungs

Ms Sparky — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:38:28 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" By Spencer Ackerman @ Wired.com A bulldozer dumps a load of trash into a burn pit just 300 yards from the runway at Bagram Airfield, January 2012. An Army memo from 2011 found the burn pit is associated with “long-term” health effects on soldiers at Bagram. [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Former employee says defense contractor retaliating for whistle-blowing

Forseti — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:05:42 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Brian Bowling – (Tribune-Review) – May 21, 2012 – A Butler County man claims in a federal lawsuit filed today that subsidiaries of London-based defense contractor BAE Systems PLC have prolonged a state lawsuit over a non-competition clause and his federal bankruptcy case to punish him [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

US moves to drop charges against Kuwait’s Agility

Forseti — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:20:18 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" “The government resorted to a series of sharp and unethical tactics, designed to distort – and in some instances create – the evidence to support the government’s after-the-fact interpretation of the contract and to transform what is, at best, a contractual dispute over the proper interpretation [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Arrested developments and other news

Forseti — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:30:23 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Report: TRC Folded In Inquiry Haines City firm faced accusations of supplying Army with bad gyroscopes. Kyle Kennedy – (The Ledger) – HAINES CITY – May 20, 2012 – When Technology Research Consultants landed in Polk County in 2003, the company shined with promise. But about [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Kerry Khan & Lee Khan plead guilty in USACE bribery scandal

Forseti — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:31:38 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" “Today the ringleader of the largest bribery and bid-steering scheme in the history of federal contracting accepted responsibility for his crimes,” said U.S. Attorney Machen. “For his shocking abuse of his position of power, Kerry Khan faces more than two decades in prison. The homes, cars, [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Maybe This is Why the PMSC Industry is Supposedly Cost-Effective

Forseti — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:26:33 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" David Isenberg – (Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire) – May 15, 2012 – Continuing on with the topic of worker exploitation let’s turn to a recently published, and unfortunately overlooked, article “Cheap help from Uganda” published in Le Monde diplomatique in France.. The article’s subtitle “Slaves [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Billions Wasted, Again: State Likely to Give Up on Costly Efforts to Train Iraqi Police

Forseti — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:12:37 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Peter Van Buren – (Huffington Post) – May 14, 2012 – The New York Times reports that the State Department, in the face of massive costs and Iraqi officials who say they never wanted it in the first place, slashed and may soon dump entirely “a [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Appeals court revives Iraq contractor torture cases

Forseti — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:59:49 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Former Abu Ghraib prisoners can sue contractors over alleged abuse -court CACI International and L-3 not entitled to early appeal Cases will resume in Virginia and Maryland courts Terry Baynes – (Reuters) – 11 May 2012 – A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived two lawsuits [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Court Publishes Decision in Contractor Fee Dispute Involving “The Mother of all DFAC Drug Deals”

Ms Sparky — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:55:13 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" NEIL GORDON – (POGO) – May 10, 2012 – The U.S. Court of Federal Claims recently unsealed its opinion and order in the nearly four-year fight by KBR to recoup the $41 million it claims the U.S. Army owes under the LOGCAP III contract in Iraq. [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

America’s Shame: The U.S. Government’s Human Trafficking Dilemma

Ms Sparky — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:42:00 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Joe Newman – (POGO) – May 7, 2012 – For Vinnie Tuivaga, the offer was the answer to a prayer: A job in a luxury hotel in Dubai–the so-called Las Vegas of the Persian Gulf–making five times what she was earning as a hair stylist in [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Lloyds owns stake in US firm accused over CIA torture flights

Forseti — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:24:52 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Banking group, which has £8.5m slice of CSC, is under pressure along with other City investors from human rights charity Rupert Neate – (Guardian UK) – May 6, 2012 – Lloyds Banking Group has become embroiled in a row over its investment in a company accused [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Lawyers for KBR and Oregon veterans file dueling briefs (Updated w/links to documents)

Ms Sparky — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:11:25 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Mike Francis – (The Oregonian) – May 4, 2012 – Lawyers in the lawsuit filed by a set of Oregon National Guard soldiers against KBR Inc., the Houston-based military contractor, have filed dueling briefs following the soldiers’ assertion that KBR knowingly concealed a key document from [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

GSA offered contractors tax breaks – at a price

Forseti — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:56:47 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Alan Fram – (Associated Press) – WASHINGTON – May 3, 2012 – It was a curious offer to contractors from a government agency: We’ll give you a tax deduction for making federal buildings more energy efficient if you qualify and if you’ll write us a check [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

David Isenberg: A Morally Reprehensible Problem

Ms Sparky — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:17:28 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" David Isenberg – (Huffington Post) – May 3, 2012 – I confess: I have an interest in an unseemly topic. Last year I coauthored a report on the subject and testified before Congress about it. The subject is labor trafficking. So let’s give credit where it [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Defense procurement problems won’t go away

Forseti — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:25:16 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" The Department of Defense (DoD) is taking a major step in stopping the waste of taxpayer dollars. POGO recently learned that DoD sent a legislative proposal to Congress to narrow the definition of a “commercial item” to mean goods or services that are actually sold to [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Iraq insurgents may have benefitted from US funds

Forseti — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:50:36 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Today the office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) has released its latest quarterly report. Here is what happening with private contractors in Iraq. ~David Isenberg, SIGIR Speaks US watchdog reports funds available for relief, reconstruction during Iraq war are believed to have [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Boots on the ground and other news

Forseti — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:43:42 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" …Kirby Dick’s The Invisible War, an indictment of the rape “epidemic” within the U.S. military, has brought swift action from the Pentagon… …Dick’s film, filled with heartbreaking accounts of sexual assaults against both female and male soldiers, often at the hands of their military superiors, gets [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

Keeping it in the family – Ralph Mariano & father indicted on 37 counts

Forseti — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:31:12 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Federal Indictment Charges former Naval Engineer and His Father in $10 Million Bribery and Kickback Conspiracy Highlights of the indictment include email exchanges among the confederates that are full of kickback directions in coded language; emailed complaints from an annoyed Mariano about delayed payoffs; details of [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky:

New Allegations Surface Of Secret Service Misbehavior In El Salvador

Ms Sparky — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:50:53 +0000

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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Related Articles: More Secret Service sex secrets not-so-secret – (Click HERE for article) Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks on Human Trafficking for the Frank and Kula Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture Series – (Click HERE for article) Senators to inquire about gov. contractor angle in secret service scandal – [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: