DynCorp is running private prisons in Iraq!

[Fridays Child]

A friend of mine who's a State of Arizona corrections officer told me that several officers at her facility have been recruited to work in Iraqi prisons for up to $100,000 per year.

So I checked it out, and this is what I found:

http://policemission.dyncorp.com/iraq.asp

DynCorp has the contract. They're owned by Computer Sciences Corp., a huge outsourcing company in El Segundo, CA. Between them, the two companies have a Carlyle-load of federal contracts. These people are world class government tit suckers and war profiteers.

Their other government contracts:
http://www.dyncorp.com/IDIQ/idiq_gsahome.htm
http://www.csc.com/industries/government/mds/mds1/index.shtml

Un-fucking-believable.

[NYC]

1. How desperate for money would you have to be to accept a job

in a prison in Iraq? I hope people know better than to accept these jobs.

[grasswire]

2. ah, so that's what they did

I thought Dyncorp would be running privatized police there. But they've hired for prison guards. Dyncorp is run by the Bush family fixer Pug Winokur. Just google for Bush Winokur and find a whole lot o' crap.

[Fridays Child]

5. And DynCorp "Halliburtoned" the contract. It was a sole source award.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0304/S00158.htm#1

[Fridays Child]

4. When you already live in a hot desert and you only make $35,000 a year...

...and when a sleazy recruiter comes around telling god-knows-what kind of lies about the job and working conditions, $75 - $100K probably sounds pretty good.

[NYC]

9. I hope people have been watching and reading the news so they

realize what the working conditions will be. I know the money sounds good, but it is such a dangerous place. I hope people don't accept these jobs.

[JasonBerry]

3. Sick stuff for sure - good catch! N/T

~

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. DynCorp is VERY much involved in the Fraudministration agenda.

DynCorp represents nothing less than the future of national security. While outfits like Raytheon make their money developing weapons systems, DynCorp offers the military an alternative to itself. In 2002, the company took in $2.3 billion doing what you probably thought was Pentagon work. DynCorp planes and pilots fly the defoliation missions that are the centerpiece of Plan Colombia. Armed DynCorp employees constitute the core of the police force in Bosnia. DynCorp troops protect Afghan president Hamid Karzai. DynCorp manages the border posts between the US and Mexico, many of the Pentagon's weapons-testing ranges, and the entire Air Force One fleet of presidential planes and helicopters. During the Persian Gulf War, it was DynCorp employees, not soldiers, who serviced and rearmed American combat choppers, and it's DynCorp's people, not military personnel, who late last year began "forward deploying" equipment and ammunition to the Middle East in preparation for war with Iraq. DynCorp inventories everything seized by the Justice Department's Asset Forfeiture Program, runs the Naval Air Warfare Center at Patuxent River, Maryland, and is producing the smallpox and anthrax vaccines the government may use to inoculate everyone in the United States.



http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/gunhire.html

[Bozita]

8. It's the French Foreign Legion, American style.

Would assassinations be legal if performed by DynCorp goons?

Please excuse the above question. I should have known better.

[Fridays Child]

11. Do you mean like when a certain unnamed UN official challenged...

...bush's claim of exclusive control over Iraqi oil? Because (gosh) bush happens to have a fun little executive order that might just answer your question:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030522-15.html

[Robbien]

7. A small item of interest. When Bush got finished with landing

on the carrier, he hightailed it over to Dyncorp for another pr stunt there. Hey, free advertising; or free at least for BFEE.

[Fridays Child]

10. Is DynCorp/CSC connected to Carlyle?

They're certainly making Carlyle-sized bags of money off of the government.

[berry]

12. Does anybody know who's running the prison that got attacked last week?

The one where I think 6 prisoners were killed in a grenade attack, and dozens injured. And the site where the Reuters photographer was shot. I never did quite understand what that attack was about--were there articles about it?

Also, I have a vague memory of the name DynCorp painted on that huge bomb (mother-of-all-bombs, MOAB) that was test-dropped in Florida. Am I wrong about this? It was a photograph. I never read of a connection in any article. But presumably they don't manufacture weapons?

[Fridays Child]

14. I don't know about MOAB but here's a boatload of DynCorp dirt.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0304/S00158.htm

[Sweetpea]

13. Damn, they have it better than the soldiers.

They are going to make more than teachers here..Wow!!!!

[TAH6988]

17. Supply and Demand

The most basic of economic concepts applies even here.

[Robbien]

15. Got this off an ezboard, more on Dyncorp Iraqi security

US Rep. Janice Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat, told Wired magazine that hiring a private company to fly what amounts to combat missions is asking for trouble. DynCorp's employees have a history of behaving like cowboys," Schakowsky noted.

"Is the US military privatizing its missions to avoid public controversy or to avoid embarrassment - to hide body bags from the media and shield the military from public opinion?" she asked.

Indeed a group of Ecuadoran peasants filed a class action against the company in September 2001. The suit alleges that herbicides spread by DynCorp in Colombia were drifting across the border, withering legitimate crops, causing human and livestock illness, and, in several cases, killing children. Assistant Secretary of State Rand Beers intervened in the case right away telling the judge the lawsuit posed "a grave risk to US national security and foreign policy objectives."

What's more, Kathryn Bolkovac, a U.N. International Police Force monitor filed a lawsuit in Britain in 2001 against DynCorp for firing her after she reported that Dyncorp police trainers in Bosnia were paying for prostitutes and participating in sex trafficking. Many of the Dyncorp employees were forced to resign under suspicion of illegal activity. But none were prosecuted, since they enjoy immunity from prosecution in Bosnia.

http://pub12.ezboard.com/fpoliticalpalacefrm14.showMessage?topicID=7.topic

[prolesunited]

16. Is there some sort of list

that outlines who got contracts, how much and their ties with the Bushistas? It would be great to see that all laid out in black and white.

[MiltonLeBerle]

18. What would be REALLY great-

would be to see it all laid out in black and white and living colour by the eventual Democratic nominee.

[Fridays Child]

19. Morning kick

:kick:

[Robbien]

21. Funny you should ask, Dyncorpsucks.com to the rescue

These guys have been following the money for a while. Gotta love that name!

http://www.dyncorp-sucks.com/

They also have profiles on all the major players.

[Fridays Child]

25. Great link! That site should have its own thread.

[indepat]

20. Mary Pat: when first seeing your caption, I wondered if our soldiers

in Iraq were earning as much as those working in the DynCorp prisons, but the up-to-$100,000 answered that question. The more we see of this, the more compelling the perception is that this invasion and occupation are mostly about rewarding patrons.

[Fridays Child]

24. But even the lowest prison employees on the totem pole will get $75K/year.

How much does an army private make?

[Ouabache]

22. I seem to recall that DynCorp had the maintenance contract for

Wellstone's plane, correct ?

nuff said.

[Eloriel]

23. More eyes

More eyes

:kick:

Eloriel