Excellent work. I wonder how conscious these people are of what TPM is. Not that their answers were incredibly revealing, but I'm somewhat surprised they're granting these interviews in the first place.
"We have to rely on the governments to do some of the enforcement"
...yet, at the same time, the State Department is granting immunities!
"There's an online site where anyone can complain that a company is operating unethically [sic]"
...yet, how many Iraqi's have access to the internet (let alone electricity) to lodge these complaints!?
Mathematical talk of Chaos Theory is maybe the most sanitized and abstracted effort to describe war that I've heard yet.
These interviews are fascinating...but for ugly reasons.
P.S.: So that's how Spencer Ackermann looks like!!!
Not long ago we told you about the IPOA, that's the lobbying organization and trade group for military contractors in Washington, DC. A week ago Monday IPOA (aka the International Peace Operations Association) had their annual summit in Washington. Blackwater, which recently terminated its membership in the outfit in the face of an IPOA ethics investigation (one of the first, apparently), wasn't there. But pretty much everyone else from the private military contractor world was, and TPM's Spencer Ackerman was there to ask them a few questions and see what was up.
Excellent work. I wonder how conscious these people are of what TPM is. Not that their answers were incredibly revealing, but I'm somewhat surprised they're granting these interviews in the first place.
"We have to rely on the governments to do some of the enforcement"
...yet, at the same time, the State Department is granting immunities!
"There's an online site where anyone can complain that a company is operating unethically [sic]"
...yet, how many Iraqi's have access to the internet (let alone electricity) to lodge these complaints!?
Mathematical talk of Chaos Theory is maybe the most sanitized and abstracted effort to describe war that I've heard yet.
These interviews are fascinating...but for ugly reasons.
P.S.: So that's how Spencer Ackermann looks like!!!