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October 6, 2007
Uh - OK Sir, if you say so...
Seems there are allegations of "funny business" at ORU. The money quote in the analysis (as far as I'm concerned):
"[A]uthoritarian systems are extremely vulnerable to fraud, because authoritarian followers aren't capable of providing checks and balances for their leaders."
Posted by pgutwin at 2:05 PM | Comments (0)
October 1, 2007
We're outsourcing our investigations of Blackwater to Blackwater.
This is pretty much insane: A report was written out of the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the folks who hired Blackwater to provide security for US diplomats in Iraq. But it turns out that the State Department employee who interviewed the Blackwater folks and wrote the report, Darren Hanner ... well, he wasn't a State Department employee. He was another contractor from Blackwater.
Posted by pgutwin at 9:17 PM | Comments (0)