How, thanks to Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II, we now spend more to contract out wartime services than we spend on major weapon systems.
Much of the article is familiar stuff, including how KBR is so powerful and so corrupt that it is immune to being audited. But the allegations that KBR sub-contractors are engaged in slavery are new to me. I also didn't realize that the Pentagon is staffed more and more with "cubicle mercenaries," and that in one department, over 80% of the workforce are contractors.
The whirring sound you here is Dwight D. Eisnhower, spinning in his grave.
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