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Lieberman Gave State IG Whistleblower Documents on ArmorGroup in 2007

By | 09.11.09 | 8:58 am

John Gorman, the former ArmorGroup Kabul project manager turned whistleblower whose allegations against the company I wrote about yesterday, met with aides to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in 2007 to share with the Government Affairs Committee chairman his account of widespread fraud with the company State chose to protect More…

Problems With Embassy Security Contract Crept Up Long Before ArmorGroup

By | 09.04.09 | 6:12 pm

A private security company hired to protect the U.S. Embassy in Kabul lost its contract with the State Department in 2007 over the failure of its guards to speak English, according to two senior diplomats who worked in the embassy at that time. Yet ArmorGroup, which was hired by the More…