Blackwater firm’s embassy dogs not up to speed, audit says (program costs $24 mil a year in Baghdad)

[maddezmom]

Blackwater firm’s embassy dogs not up to speed, audit says
State Department auditors said Friday that guard dogs deployed by two private security companies to protect American embassies in Afghanistan and Iraq are not being properly trained to detect bombs.

The department’s inspector general singled out U.S. Training Center, an affiliate of Xe Services, the firm formerly known as Blackwater, for lapses in its guard dog program in Kabul.

Another firm, the Washington-based RONCO Consulting Corporation, was scored for its guard dog program at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, as well as in Kabul.

The Baghdad program alone costs over $24 million a year, the report said.

more:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/10/blackwater_firms_embassy_dogs.html

[Enthusiast]

1. Like the rest, this "program"

is a gift to politically connected Bush friends. 24 million?