YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK :10 MIL to pay 63 Outsourced Torture Instructors

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Torture Training--the new HOT JOB! We'll pay 163K per yr. for contractors versus 80K for in-house Mil instructors.


...The Army is gearing up for the effort by hiring private companies to handle the training. Last month, the service awarded contracts that could grow to more than $50 million in the next five years to three private firms to provide additional instructors to the 18-week basic course in human-intelligence interrogation at Fort Huachuca.

The Army, in the contracting process, estimated the annual cost for an outside instructor at $100,000, Moncur said. That is at least $20,000 above the average of what someone in the service would receive, according to an analysis of military pay vs. civilian pay on the Today's Military Web site.

Only $10 million of the overall amount will be spent next year for an additional 63 instructors to handle the increase in the number of trainees taking the interrogation course, according to Maj. Matthew Garner, the center's public affairs officer. In later years it could ramp up further, Garner said.




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/22/AR2006092201486.html

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1. I wonder if these Rethug torture rooms have mood lighting and

"you're a bad boy" music and ex-Playgirl/Playboy masters/mistresses. In other words, I wonder if these torture rooms are playrooms for powerful neocons.

[Telly Savalas]

2. Now it all makes sense.

The White House's push for torture isn't so much motivated by the fact that they're a bunch of sadistic sociopaths, but rather because it artificially creates the need for another government function which they can privatize and unfairly award no-bid contracts to their cronies.

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3. It's always about raiding the war chest. n/t