Contracting Fortunes
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007In the past four years the State Department has increased the amount of federal dollars spent on private contractors, from one billion (still an absurd amount) to nearly four billion dollars (a truly absurd amount). However, the increase in money spent regardless, the State Department has not added new officials (or to my knowledge, guidelines) to govern contractor activity. Government auditors and outside experts are now telling the American public what they should have known all along, the State Department’s policies are resulting in cost overruns, poor performance, and violence that as most of you should know, has gone unpunished.




