though I'm not sure at the time I began this post if this company was involved (early signs -- involvement in infrastructure -- their wiki page reads like a company brochure) if they were involved with that but the thing, especially in light in how much in subsidies they receive is they are real heavily involved in exploitation of migrant workers. The whole Qatar World Cup workers is from the same pipeline the Department of Defense uses. Commonly reported things and things I saw myself were taking passports when they arrived, bait & switch recruiting, poor & cramped living conditions, abuse, human trafficking, etc.
This was the closest I could find regarding to that but if "day laborers" or laborers mentioned were Afghan civilians than this isn't the TCN slave labor which is rampant from our private defense contractors (including Halliburton but they have a subcontractor to a subcontractor that hires them through a subcontractor). As far as scandals or what should be a scandal, Redskins tickets rank pretty low. The only time I ever seen a TCN (much less their existence acknowledged by an anchor) on the corporate 24/7 news was when Obama overseas being served food in a chow line but they have a wide range of tasks & accomplished a great deal for our US Military. Most of them were actually driving the vehicles transporting supplies & equipment from one base to another base in Iraq. I drove convoys, there were 5 of us truck & trailer. 2 bobtails. 3 gun tracks & 25-30 TCNs driving Mercedes fiberglass truck & trailers with no armor or weapon for $300 a month. So much pumped into the marketing of the military sacrifice & hardships but it almost feels "unpatriotic" to suggest their massive contribution, US didn't accomplish anything in Iraq without their help primarily because they had them do all the work or suggest we did anything wrong to them or there is anything wrong with brown people being worked like slaves.
If people only knew, I don't mean just a shipping crate of money disappearing from a C-130, what our defense tax dollars went to... so many wouldn't be so quick to bash the bums for their problems when contractors don't have much oversight or appears to be much the law can do as far as regulating their behavior. Didn't a rape victim wait about 5 years and only saw an abritrator? I liked that Al Franken took advantage of how much time he could allow himself as well as the one testifying for the contractor to dress him town. I'm usually not quite a fan of that behavior (since Senate Testimony Committee members usually appear very ignorant in taking an opportunity to showboat (which I don't feel was the case in Franken who appeared to be legitimately outraged).
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But in the case of the program to support local governments — designed to help train officials and fund small reconstruction projects — the interim efforts will not be as robust as the delayed initiative, according to development specialists familiar with the issue.
With regard to the agriculture program — aimed at creating more farm-related jobs — USAID is considering whether to extend a costly project that some of the agency’s senior leaders deem ineffective and wasteful in an attempt to mollify the military until a new assistance program is implemented. The new program was supposed to have started six months ago.
U.S. commanders and diplomats had hoped that the new programs would assist in cementing recent military gains against the Taliban, which have come at a significant cost of American lives. They believe that if Afghans have expanded access to jobs and can rely on local governments for basic services, many will renounce the insurgency.
This report is based on interviews with more than a dozen civilian and military officials involved in Afghanistan policy. All insisted on anonymity, but for different reasons: USAID staff members critical of the agency’s operations said they feared retribution if they were quoted by name; military officials said they were concerned about angering their civilian counterparts; and USAID officials authorized to speak for the agency said they were unable to answer most questions on the record.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-military-dismayed-by-delays-in-3-key-development-projects-in-afghanistan/2011/04/22/AFD6jq8E_story_2.html
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