{"id":199500,"date":"2007-07-22T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/22\/stars-and-stripes-democrats-move-to-rein-in-use-of-private-contractors-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T00:25:00","slug":"stars-and-stripes-democrats-move-to-rein-in-use-of-private-contractors-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/22\/stars-and-stripes-democrats-move-to-rein-in-use-of-private-contractors-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars and Stripes: Democrats move to rein in use of private contractors in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about bloody time.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.estripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=47504\">Democrats move to rein in use of private contractors in Iraq<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mideast edition, Friday, July 20, 2007<\/p>\n<p>The Senate\u2019s nine freshman Democrats announced a new effort Wednesday to rein in the use of private contractors to rebuild Iraq and to do an array of war-related jobs normally assigned to the military, The Virginian-Pilot reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the group will ask Congress to create a \u201cCommission on Wartime Contracting\u201d that would assign auditors already employed by the federal government to ferret out waste and mismanagement in the more than $300 billion Iraq reconstruction effort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has been an ongoing scandal.  Whether it&#8217;s the dangerously unaccountable mercenaries from groups like Blackwater, or KBR serving substandard food provided by slave laborers, this war profiteering has been a national disgrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about bloody time. Democrats move to rein in use of private contractors in Iraq Mideast edition, Friday, July 20, 2007 The Senate\u2019s nine freshman Democrats announced a new effort Wednesday to rein in the use of private contractors to rebuild Iraq and to do an array of war-related jobs normally assigned to the military, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199500"}],"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=199500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}