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State Department’s Contract With ArmorGroup Is ‘Under Review’

By | 09.15.09 | 3:48 pm

According to a State Department spokesman, a new review currently underway within the department might result in controversial security company ArmorGroup North America losing its $189 million contract to guard the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

“Action with regard to the existing static guard contract in Afghanistan is under review,” said More…

More Allegations Against State Department Security Contractor: Whistleblower Fired

By | 09.03.09 | 12:19 pm

The Project on Government Oversight has just learned that one of its sources for exposing apparent acts of physical and sexual harassment by a State Department security contractor has been fired in an act of retaliation. A just-issued press release:

One of the whistleblowers who helped expose the guard scandal

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