Chelsea Manning Files Presidential Pardon Request
Source: Common Dreams
Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning's legal team filed her request for a presidential pardon on Tuesday.
The pardon document will be available starting Wednesday at pardon.bradleymanning.org, the Private Manning Support Network said.
Manning was sentenced late last month to 35 years for releasing a trove of government and military documents to WikiLeaks. Immediately after the sentencing, Manning's legal team announced that they would be proceeding with an appeal for a presidential pardon or, at the very least, a commutation of the sentence by President Obama.
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day before his DEMOCRATIC replacement is sworn in January 2017 
Wikileaks released the Manning cables -- and quite a number of people have been raising closely related concerns about DynCorp for years and years. If you actually have a serious interest in fighting-back against warmongers, maybe you should consider doing some serious research into the corporate profiteers behind the curtain, instead of merely calling people names on the internet
... One effort to train Afghan civilian police has drawn attention from the State Department's inspector general following incidents of questionable management oversight, including one instance in which expatriate DynCorp employees in Afghanistan hired a teenage boy to perform a tribal dance at a company farewell party and videotaped the event ...
Amid Reviews, DynCorp Bolsters Ethics Practices
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 27, 2009
... testimony earlier this week of three whistleblowers before the Senate's Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) stands out for the sheer outrageousness of their accusations—namely that U.S. private contractors looted Iraqi palaces and ministries, stole military equipment, fenced supplies destined for U.S. troops, and even operated a prostitution ring ... more shocking than any of this was the accusation from Barry Halley, a former project manager for Worldwide Network Services, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that was working on subcontract for DynCorp. According to Halley, his site manager in Iraq, who he said was employed by a "major defense contractor," moonlighted as the leader of a prostitution ring ...
Contractors Gone Wild
Theft, hookers, melting down Iraqi gold to make cowboy spurs? All in a day's work for private military contractors in Iraq?
—By Bruce Falconer
Fri May. 2, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
... "DynCorp's site manager was involved in bringing prostitutes into hotels operated by DynCorp. A co-worker unrelated to the ring was killed when he was traveling in an unsecure car and shot performing a high-risk mission. I believe that my co-worker could have survived if he had been riding in an armored car. At the time, the armored car that he would otherwise have been riding in was being used by the contractor's manager to transport prostitutes from Kuwait to Baghdad" ...
U.S. Military Contractor 'Used Armored Cars To Transport Prostitutes'
First Posted: 05/07/08 06:12 AM ET
Updated: 05/25/11 01:30 PM ET
Jason Linkins
... Whenever I reported discrepancies in billing or questioned illegal activity in Iraq by DynCorp, CAPE or other contractors, I was told not to worry about it or it would be taken care of by others. After informing CAPE of my findings, I was locked in a room for days, held at gunpoint by private security guards, and physically beaten ...
“Contracting Abuses in Iraq: Is the Bush Administration Safeguarding American Taxpayer Dollars?”
Barry Halley
Former WWNS and CAPE Environmental employee
... In January 2007, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, Stuart W. Bowen Jr., reported that "he had identified tens of millions of dollars worth of accounting discrepancies, missing weapons and unauthorized billings" by DynCorp. Bowen accused DynCorp of "lax accounting and monitoring procedures." At issue is a $43.8 million State Department contract "for a camp that was never used by police trainers," including $4.2 million that DynCorp billed for "unauthorized work." Another $36.4 million expenditure, intended "for weapons and equipment, including armored vehicles, body armor and communications equipment ... cannot be accounted for," reported the Dallas Morning News ...
May 2, 2003
The Honorable Richard L. Armitage
Deputy Secretary of State ...
Dear Mr. Armitage:
We write to inquire about the Administration’s efforts to fight against the emergence of prostitution and human trafficking industries in post-conflict Iraq ... Our concern about U.S. contractors participating in prostitution or trafficking-related activities was recently heightened by the State Department’s award to DynCorp International of a contract providing up to 1,000 civilian advisors to help the Government of Iraq organize civilian law enforcement, judicial and correctional agencies ... We are also aware of the documented involvement by some DynCorp employees or agents in prostitution, human trafficking, and sexual misconduct and of DynCorp’s retaliation against those who endeavored to bring such misconduct to light ...
<HELSINKI> COMMISSION LETTER TO DEPUTY SECRETARY ARMITAGE
... DynCorp personnel contracted to the United Nations police service in Bosnia were implicated in buying and selling prostitutes, including a girl as young as 12. Several DynCorp employees were also accused of videotaping the rape of one of the women ...
Scandal-Hit US Firm Wins Key Contracts
Published on Sunday, April 13, 2003 by the Observer/UK
by Antony Barnett
Tuesday, Aug 6, 2002 06:26 PM EDT
Sex-slave whistle-blowers vindicated
DynCorp, a private military powerhouse, fired two employees who complained that colleagues were involved in Bosnian forced-prostitution rings. The employees went to court -- and won.
By Robert Capps
... Kathryn Bolkovac, a U.N. International Police Force monitor filed a lawsuit in Britain in 2001 against DynCorp for firing her after she reported that Dyncorp police trainers in Bosnia were paying for prostitutes and participating in sex trafficking. Many of the Dyncorp employees were forced to resign under suspicion of illegal activity. But none were prosecuted, since they enjoy immunity from prosecution in Bosnia. Earlier that year Ben Johnston, a DynCorp aircraft mechanic for Apache and Blackhawk helicopters in Kosovo, filed a lawsuit against his employer. The suit alleged that that in the latter part of 1999 Johnson "learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in] other immoral acts" ...
CSC/ DynCorp
... As an article in the winter issue of the Wisconsin International Law Journal recounts, in 2000, employees of DynCorp Inc, a Virginia-based private military security company (PMSC) employed by the United Nations Police Task Force in the Balkans, were accused of participating in a Bosnian sex slavery ring. Kathryn Bolkovac, a DynCorp employee working as a UN Police Force monitor, reported to her supervisors that her male colleagues had made comments about women they owned. Bolkovac was fired soon after ...
Sex and security in Afghanistan
By David Isenberg
Oct 6, 2009