[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] State Dept. Outsources Investigations of Contractor Crimes

[John W.]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Brian Dolinar <briandolinar at gmail.com>wrote:

> State Dept. Outsources Investigations of Contractor Crimes
>
> The State Department is coming under new scrutiny for outsourcing to
> private firms the task of investigating other private contractors for
> criminal activity in Iraq. ABC News reports the Bureau of Diplomatic
> Security is now relying on a company called U.S. Investigations
> Services—U.S.I.S.—to handle the bulk of its probes. The most controversial
> investigation surrounds the killings of seventeen Iraqi civilians by
> employees of the military firm Blackwater Worldwide in Baghdad's Nisoor
> Square. The one-year anniversary of the Nisoor Square massacre passed last
> month with not a single criminal charge to date.
>
I'll bet U.S.I.S. has been paid a lot of MONEY, though.  What say WE form a
company to investigate U.S.I.S.?  :-)


According to ABC News, eight U.S.I.S. employees comprise the majority of the
> Federal Investigations Unit, the government body formed to probe contractor
> crimes.
> --
> Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
> 303 W. Locust St.
> Urbana, IL 61801
> briandolinar at gmail.com
>
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