U.S. Wasting Billions While Tripling No-Bid Contracts After Decade of War in Iraq, Afghanistan

[KoKo]

Report goes into how "Blackwater" changed name to "ZE" and managed to get in under another name onto the contracts written and applied for by "Former Military Retired...who are now Lobbyists for K-Street promoting the MIC so they can live WILD in Tampa, Florida and other great Golf or Tropical Environments while the RW Repugs RULE...taking it out of Ordinary American's Lives and Medicare/Medicade and Pensioners who paid into everything.

I't a HEIST! :grr:

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http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/2/us_wasting_billions_while_tripling_no

LINK TO VIDEO OF THIS ABOVE:

U.S. Wasting Billions While Tripling No-Bid Contracts After Decade of War in Iraq, Afghanistan

As the war in Afghanistan approaches its 10th anniversary, a pair of new reports reveal how the Pentagon has squandered tens of billions of dollars while tripling the amount of no-bid contracts. The bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting concludes that between $31 billion and $60 billion spent on projects in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 10 years has been lost to waste and fraud. In Afghanistan, the commission found the United States is indirectly funding the Taliban as money diverted from U.S.-backed projects is paid out to militants to ensure safety. Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s use of no-bid contracts has tripled since the United States was attacked on 9/11, in spite of promises to reform the controversial practice. A new investigative report from the Center for Public Integrity says no-bid spending has ballooned from $50 billion in 2003 to $140 billion in 2011. We speak with Charles Tiefer, a member of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan and a professor of government contracting at the University of Baltimore Law School, and with Sharon Weinberger of the Center for Public Integrity, author of the investigative series "Windfalls of War." "There are as many contractors in the war zone as there are soldiers. But we haven’t adjusted our thinking for it. We haven’t adjusted our structure for it," Tiefer says.
Filed under 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Private Contractors, Military-industrial complex, Army, War on Terror, War

TRANSCRIPT AT SITE TO FOLLOW:

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/2/us_wasting_billions_while_tripling_no

[blkmusclmachine]

1. There you go "looking back" again:

Only the unserious, Professional Leftists, and Drug-Taking Hippies "Look Back." Get with the bi-partisan plan, dude/dudette. And go eat your damn peas, already.. :evilgrin:

[yurbud]

2. the supercommittee would be heros if they got ALL their savings from cancelling the wars

or making the oil companies actually pay for them.

[think]

3. To me this is treason but who really cares since the main stream media is complicit......

[OnyxCollie]

4. K&R. nt

[Overseas]

5. K&R. No bid contracts when "everything is on the table" ?

Vigilant pursuit of medicare fraud while war profiteering zooms ahead?

Low Income Heating Assistance will be cut while these no-bid contracts are allowed to continue?

[KoKo]

6. ...1

[midnight]

7. I would love to get a no bid contract for some projects....

How is it that one goes about doing this? Can anyone get a no bid contract? Or is this just for those who pay to play?