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The struggle to police foreign subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Nick Schwellenbach and Lagan Sebert

To win hearts and minds in Afghanistan and Iraq, military experts want U.S. companies to contract with local firms for a variety of tasks li

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Windfalls of War: A decade of keeping government spending accountable

By Sandy Johnson

Baghdad bonanza

By Bill Buzenberg

KBR subcontractor in Iraq gets U.S. contracts despite human trafficking allegations

By Ben Wieder

Winning contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity and The Center for Public Integrity

State Department will inherit reconstruction duties in Iraq when troops leave

By Laurel Adams

IG questions whether State Department is ready to take over many reconstruction tasks in Iraq

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Military failure to secure Iraq after invasion

By The Center for Public Integrity

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By R. Jeffrey Smith

190,000 missing weapons in Iraq

By The Center for Public Integrity

Winning contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity and The Center for Public Integrity

Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government

By Nick Schwellenbach and Carol D. Leonnig

Two former employees of Blackwater Worldwide have accused the private security contractor of defrauding the government for years through pho

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Failure to regulate security contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Wartime contracting getting new scrutiny on the ground

By Nick Schwellenbach

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's competition for contracts abysmal compared to other agencies

By Sharon Weinberger

Outsourcing the Pentagon

By Larry Makinson

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Should foreign contractors be held accountable in U.S. courts?

By Nick Schwellenbach

A judge’s decision that his court was not the proper venue for a dispute between a Kuwaiti firm and the family of an American soldier killed

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DoD bows to critics, denies Kuwaiti firm sole source contract

By Nick Schwellenbach

Marketing the new 'Dogs of War'

By Duncan Campbell

Top 100 Contractors in Iraq, Afghanistan

By The Center for Public Integrity

Baghdad bonanza

By Bill Buzenberg

Wartime contracting getting new scrutiny on the ground

By Nick Schwellenbach

Here comes the cavalry, of sorts. Fifteen members and staff from the congressionally-created Commission on Wartime Contracting have left sta

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Failure to regulate security contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government

By Nick Schwellenbach and Carol D. Leonnig

Private contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's competition for contracts abysmal compared to other agencies

By Sharon Weinberger

Review launched on payments Army made to KBR over auditor objections

By Nick Schwellenbach

Controversial charges by contractor KBR for work done in Iraq are getting new scrutiny from the Pentagon, PaperTrail has learned....

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Documents reveal concern regarding Halliburton contracts

By André Verlöy

Billions for KBR

By Sarah Laskow

Halliburton contracts balloon

By André Verlöy and Daniel Politi

Baghdad bonanza

By Bill Buzenberg

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Billions for KBR

By Sarah Laskow

Whistleblower Charles M. Smith, who oversaw Pentagon contracts in Iraq, says he was forced out of his job in 2004 after refusing to pay defe

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Review launched on payments Army made to KBR over auditor objections

By Nick Schwellenbach

KBR subcontractor in Iraq gets U.S. contracts despite human trafficking allegations

By Ben Wieder

Documents reveal concern regarding Halliburton contracts

By André Verlöy

Baghdad bonanza

By Bill Buzenberg

Early warning

By Alan Green

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2004 — One year before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then-Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White informed a trio of top-level

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Outsourcing the Pentagon

By Larry Makinson

Top 100 Contractors in Iraq, Afghanistan

By The Center for Public Integrity

Sending troops home could pave way for more non-competitive defense contracting

By R. Jeffrey Smith

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's no-bid contracts triple in 10 years of war

By Sharon Weinberger

By the numbers

By Bill Buzenberg and David E. Kaplan

With two wars and an economy in shambles, it’s not hard to get the feeling that something’s gone terribly wrong here in Washington. “We’ll l

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Government agencies blew $125 billion on improper payments

By Laurel Adams

$100 million for artificial legs and feet in question

By Alexandra Duszak

Jon Huntsman's $1 trillion mistake

By FactCheck.Org

Is Michael Jackson's doctor disqualified from Medicare? Or are two senators mistaken?

By Joe Eaton

Commentary: 'Reformer with results'? Don't count on it

By Charles Lewis

August 2, 2000 — On the opening night of the GOP convention in Philadelphia, retired General Colin Powell criticized his fellow Republicans

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A pipeline of influence

By Kevin Bogardus

'Full and open debate'

By The Center for Public Integrity

Cheney sidesteps travel disclosure rules

By Kate Sheppard

Statement of Charles Lewis, Executive Director

By Charles Lewis

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