Remember Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn? He was the former Raytheon lobbyist who joined the Obama administration almost immediately after the president announced new ethics rules barring lobbyists from joining the government in their relevant fields. His nomination survived after getting an ethics waiver, whereby he swore he wouldn’t have More…
Believe it: photographs from the Project on Government Oversight that don’t show contractors behaving in a sexually crude manner.
Instead, in a letter circulating to senators during final debate on next year’s defense appropriation, POGO’s good government watchdogs urge support for an effort by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the ranking More…
The congressionally chartered commission on wartime contracting is meeting today, and one of its witnesses is Danielle Brian, the Project on Government Oversight executive director who blew the lid off of ArmorGroup’s failures in protecting the U.S. embassy in Kabul. In her prepared testimony, she excoriates the State Department More…
The Project on Government Oversight, which blew the story of State Department contractor-gone-wild ArmorGroup wide open last week, put out this statement about the new whistleblower lawsuit against the company. Notice how hard it hits the State Department:
Today, new allegations of deficiencies and contract violations by ArmorGroup
The very unamused people at the Project on Government Oversight, which broke the story of ArmorGroup’s out-of-control security guards at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, have been trying to get some answers from the State Department about how it is that years’ worth of complaints from inside the department More…
It’s still unclear exactly when the State Department’s inspector general began its inquiry into department contractor ArmorGroup’s apparent physical and sexual harrasment at the U.S. embassy in Kabul. Spokesman Ian Kelly said yesterday that the department has known about the latest allegations from the much-criticized company for “ten More…
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