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...alternative options. In this ever-growing world of mercenary warfare—the U.S. government’s budget for private security contractors has increased from $1 billion to $4 billion in the past four years—supply for security personnel is presumably growing as well. DynCorp International, which is the second-largest supplier of security officers to the U.S. government behind Blackwater and has done so much less controversially, will hopefully be able to replace the fired officers in the short term. In general, the private outsourcing of duties that should presumably go to the military or internal...
Halliburton's CEO, Dave Lesar, points out that "there are very few companies in the world that could or would adapt this quickly while, at the same time, [financing] an operation of this magnitude." He's right: only two other U.S. companies, DynCorp and Raytheon, bid for this kind of massive logistical responsibility in the last bidding round. Under the terms of its LOGCAP contract, KBR had less than three weeks to provide 27 dining facilities throughout Iraq for 120,000 troops...
...peace" is a priority, it is not clear that all his colleagues do. Here's one measure: the Pentagon seems so little concerned about supporting the new Afghan government that it handed off its contract to provide security to President Hamid Karzai--who was nearly assassinated in September--to DynCorp Inc., a private firm in Virginia. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once spoke of the land in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on which Bush wants to see a Palestinian state as the "so called" occupied territories. Vice President Dick Cheney has always given the impression he believes that...
Karam said DynCorp could access e-mails, digital communications and other sensitive information about the ongoing investigation...
Beyond Winokur’s involvement with DynCorp, the New York Times uncovered proxy statements filed by Enron with the SEC that fail to list Winokur as a board member of the NATCO Group, a producer of gas and oil equipment that did $1.5 million in business with Enron...