Friday, June 18, 2010
Monday, September 14, 2009
Video: CSPAN–Wartime Contracting in Afghanistan and Iraq: DoS and the Kabul Fiasco
I am watching this right now, and it is fascinating. They talk about ‘Snack Pack’ (dressing like Afghans and going outside the wire to do a recon) and the hazing stuff. Lots of interesting little tidbits being covered in this deal.
The overall impression that I get, is that this hearing is bashing the crap out of State for not doing anything about this stuff when it was brought up, time and time again over the years. This contract has been a joke for awhile, and State could care less about squaring it away. –Matt
Edit:
The most profound thing in this whole deal was Samuel Brinkley alluding to the idea that the Snack Pack was condoned by the State Department. (Snack Pack was the group that did the recon outside the wire–big no, no, and definitely not in the contract)
I will applaud him for the apologies to the industry, and that is the least he could do. Although I am not too convinced that he is the right guy for that VP job with Wackenhut. He didn’t even know what a Gurkha was, and he actually thought that all of his Nepalese guards on the contract at the Embassy were Gurkhas. LOL
Oh, and the AGNA supervisor that put together that Rat Poster (friends do not rat on friends…..), is an idiot. You know who you are, and guys like you do not deserve to be in management or even in this industry. –Matt