Mr. President, why not fire DynCorp?

[jpgray]

DYNCORP DISGRACE

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11119

Middle-aged men having sex with 12- to 15-year-olds was too much for Ben Johnston, a hulking 6-foot-5-inch Texan, and more than a year ago he blew the whistle on his employer, DynCorp, a U.S. contracting company doing business in Bosnia.

According to the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) lawsuit filed in Texas on behalf of the former DynCorp aircraft mechanic, "in the latter part of 1999 Johnston learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorp were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and participating in other immoral acts. Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they had purchased."

Rather than acknowledge and reward Johnston's effort to get this behavior stopped, DynCorp fired him, forcing him into protective custody by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) until the investigators could get him safely out of Kosovo and returned to the United States. That departure from the war-torn country was a far cry from what Johnston imagined a year earlier when he arrived in Bosnia to begin a three-year U.S. Air Force contract with DynCorp as an aircraft-maintenance technician for Apache and Blackhawk helicopters.

FOREIGN CONTRACTORS HIRED AFGHAN 'DANCING BOYS', WIKILEAKS CABLE REVEALS

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/foreign-contractors-hired-dancing-boys

A scandal involving foreign contractors employed to train Afghan policemen who took drugs and paid for young "dancing boys" to entertain them in northern Afghanistan caused such panic that the interior minister begged the US embassy to try and "quash" the story, according to one of the US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks.

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The episode helped to fuel Afghan demands that contractors and private security companies be brought under much tighter government control. However, the US embassy was legally incapable of honouring a request by Atmar that the US military should assume authority over training centres managed by DynCorp, the US company whose employees were involved in the incident in the northern province of Kunduz.

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In a meeting between Atmar and the assistant ambassador Joseph Mussomeli, the US diplomat said he was deeply upset by the incident and that the embassy was considering Afghan demands that the US military should beginning overseeing the DynCrop operations.

Privately, however, they knew that such an arrangement was not "legally possible under the DynCorp contract".

[msongs]

1. every politician has his/her own moral standard to live by while in office nt

[boppers]

2. Why doesn't he fire the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines?

DynCorp isn't some tiny subcontractor that can be replaced. The MIC that was warned about? That's DynCorp... they're in deep with DoD, CIA, etc.

[jpgray]

3. A little less extreme than that, but not much. No question about it.

We're stretched extremely thin, and therefore support contractors receive sweet contracts. High wages, no oversight, liabilities offloaded onto the taxpayer, etc. They successfully quashed some rumblings about explicit legal language prohibiting this sort of behavior earlier in the decade.

Without them our wars would not be sustainable, but it is a high price, no?

[defendandprotect]

4. k

[gtar100]

5. Good God! It's this kind of crap that makes me feel reform of our government is hopeless.

It really is the miscreants, criminals and juveniles who have taken over in this country. It's enough to make Jesus stop his second coming and just say fuck it.

[sciencewins]

6. Recall, all polticians (incl. the WH) is the Property of Big Business

So there is no chance of DynCorp ever leaving their comfy spot.
At least we can always thank goodness for the crumbs trickled down onto us once in a while.