{"id":198149,"date":"2007-12-07T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/07\/state-department-contractor-who-created-corrupt-and-unsafe-baghdad-embassy-still-running-construction-and-krugman-owns-cheney\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T05:01:00","slug":"state-department-contractor-who-created-corrupt-and-unsafe-baghdad-embassy-still-running-construction-and-krugman-owns-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/07\/state-department-contractor-who-created-corrupt-and-unsafe-baghdad-embassy-still-running-construction-and-krugman-owns-cheney\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Contractor Who Created Corrupt and Unsafe Baghdad Embassy Still Running Construction (and Krugman Owns Cheney)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note that this guy is not<\/span> career State Department.<\/p>\n

State Dept. retains manager of troubled embassy project<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers<\/p>\n

last updated: December 06, 2007 08:22:34 PM<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 A State Department project manager banished from Iraq by the U.S. ambassador and under scrutiny by the Justice Department continues to oversee the construction of the much-delayed new American embassy in Baghdad from nearby Kuwait, State Department officials disclosed Thursday.<\/p>\n

James L. Golden, a contract employee<\/span><\/span>, is still managing the $740 million project, said Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy, the department’s top management official.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Golden is still . . . our project manager, and still is working with the contractor, at their base in Kuwait,” Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

One State Department official with detailed knowledge of the unopened embassy expressed outrage<\/span> that his superiors haven’t replaced Golden.<\/p>\n

…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Emphasis mine)<\/span><\/p>\n

So, this guy is so bad at what he does, that he got thrown out of the Green Zone, but he’s still<\/span> managing construction.<\/p>\n

When one considers the shoddy and unsafe construction, and allegations of corruption and slavery<\/span>, one wonders why this guy is still getting paid.<\/p>\n

So, which company does he work for, and what sort of political connection with Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup> is keeping him on the job?<\/p>\n

I should note that the inestimable Paul Krugman puts in his two cents<\/a> on this too:<\/p>\n

Back when Hillary Clinton described Dick Cheney as Darth Vader, a number of people pointed out that this was an unfair comparison. For example, Darth Vader once served in the military.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another reason the comparison is invalid: the contractors Darth Vader hired to build the Death Star actually got the job done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note that this guy is not career State Department. State Dept. retains manager of troubled embassy project Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers last updated: December 06, 2007 08:22:34 PM WASHINGTON \u2014 A State Department project manager banished from Iraq by the U.S. ambassador and under scrutiny by the Justice Department continues to oversee the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,964,1009,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-foreign-relations","category-government","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}