contractors

James Clapper’s Twisted Definition Of An Insider Threat

We’ll probably be seeing more spooks getting paid by contractors on the side.

Senate Cafeteria Cook Goes On Strike To Shine Light On Miserable Pay

Bravo, Bertrand Olotara!

DC Strike Drives Home The Point: More Than The Minimum For Federal Workers

Five members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus joined government contract workers, who shared their struggles to make ends meet, to call for a higher minimum wage and allow the workers to unionize.

Now Can We See Some Bankers Go To Jail?

Finally revealed: Just how low Bank of America would go to screw over American homeowners.

Report Details Failed Afghan Project Linked To U.S. Soldier Deaths

The failure to install a system to prevent insurgents from planting roadside bombs in hundreds of locations has led to the injuries and death of several American soldiers, according to a report released Tuesday by American investigators.

NSA Chief Doesn't Know How Snowden Took So Much Information

Intelligence and national security? Not so much.

Rep. Chaffetz Admits House GOP Cut Embassy Security Funding

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) acknowledged on Wednesday that House Republicans had consciously voted to reduce the funds allocated to the State Department for embassy security since winning the majority in 2010. On Wednesday morning, CNN

I Am The 99 Percent

I am a 27 year old veteran of the Iraq War. I enlisted to protect the American people, but ended up making profits for politically-connected contractors. I returned to a country whose economy had been devastated by bankers with the same connections and the same lack of ethics. It might be cliche by now, but this is the second time I’ve fought for my country and the first time I’ve known my enemy. I am the 99%.

American Being Held For Shootings In Pakistan Worked As Blackwater CIA Contractor

Apparently MSNBC and The New York Times were both aware of this story but did not report on it at the request of the Unites States government until The Guardian broke their embargo today and ran the story anyway. Somehow Andrea Mitchell and Steve

Karzai: U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Private Contractors Engaging In Terrorist, Mafia-Like Activity

Hamid Karzai's got his own corruption problems but given their track record nothing would surprise me with how these private contractors are acting in