Ethics

Contractors Gone Wild: Spring Break in Kabul

By Ed Brayton

If you haven't seen the unredacted photos of the crazy shit that went on with American military contractors from ArmorGroup, assigned to guard the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, here's the link. This is not even close to being safe for work.

Spencer Ackerman notes at the Washington Independent that this company has been under investigation by the State Department -- like Blackwater, this is their contract, not the DOD or CIA -- for "quite some time." The State Department has apparently issued several warnings to the company but taken no action - and in fact recently extended their contract to operate in Afghanistan.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).