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Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., on Tuesday called on the State Department to open an investigation into the performance and management of the contract with ArmorGroup North America. McCaskill, who chairs a Senate subcommittee on contracting oversight, said the new evidence calls into question the company's ability to provide adequate security at a key facility.
It's outrageous. I want to know who's been lying to whom?
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It cites a July 2007 warning from the department to ArmorGroup that detailed more than a dozen performance deficiencies, including too few guards and armored vehicles. Another "cure notice" was sent less than a year later, raising other problems and criticizing the contractor for failing to fix the prior ones.
In July 2008, however, the department extended the contract for another year, according to the notice. More problems surfaced and more warning notices followed. Yet during a congressional hearing on the contract in June, State Department officials said the prior shortcomings had been remedied and security at the embassy is effective.
Clearly the ball has been dropped here big time. I hope heads roll on this one.
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Nearly two-thirds of the embassy guards are Gurkhas from Nepal and northern India who don't speak adequate English, a situation that creates communications breakdowns, the group says. Pantomime is often used to convey orders and instructions.
WSJ:US State Dept:Security Lapses Left Kabul Embassy `In Jeopardy' (http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200906102204dowjonesdjonline000 811&title=wsjus-state-deptsecurity-lapses-left-kabul-embassy-in-jeopardy - broken link)
We have a bloated government full of paper pushers who don't have any accountability for the jobs they do.
There's one guy at the top somewhere that runs the dept that hires out the security. Fire his butt with no questions. The government needs to show that it means business..no hand slap or finger pointing with no actual "person" held accountable.
If our government were a private corporation they would have been bankrupt decades ago.
WSJ:US State Dept:Security Lapses Left Kabul Embassy `In Jeopardy' (http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200906102204dowjonesdjonline000 811&title=wsjus-state-deptsecurity-lapses-left-kabul-embassy-in-jeopardy - broken link)
Maybe Obama will hire them. ) Better yet, he could make the CEO some kind of Czar. Yeah, that's the ticket.
We have a bloated government full of paper pushers who don't have any accountability for the jobs they do.
There's one guy at the top somewhere that runs the dept that hires out the security. Fire his butt with no questions. The government needs to show that it means business..no hand slap or finger pointing with no actual "person" held accountable.
If our government were a private corporation they would have been bankrupt decades ago.
It's someone/ some group at the State Dept best I can tell, who hires these contractors.
It's someone/ some group at the State Dept best I can tell, who hires these contractors.
It probably goes through a bid process and the contracts just renewed based on CEO replies to any reports of problems. Shuffles past a number of desks and goes to accounting to cut the checks.
The guy at the top probably doesn't even know he hired them and continually renewed their government contracts.
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) Better yet, he could make the CEO some kind of Czar. Yeah, that's the ticket.
