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Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" After four years of fighting the good fight and spending countless hours at my computer documenting the rampant Fraud, Waste and Abuse of U.S. tax dollars in the hands of DoD contractors, I have submitted a petition on We the People. We the People was set [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: KBR’s Utt tells the DoD to back off! Iraq: We Lost $1.2 Billion in Equipment Going in; How Much Will We Lose... Read Full Story

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" ROSE BOUBOUSHIAN - (Courthouse News) – A contractor fired from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad while on medical leave has no right to sue her employer because “the embassy is not a U.S. territory,” a federal judge ruled.    After publication of the decision last week, the [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: OIG Report recommends the return of $132M for US Embassy fiasco in Baghdad The US Embassy in Baghdad... Read Full Story

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky"  …“God will forgive you, but the bureaucracy never will.” This is an appropriate warning for civil servants who would report contractor fraud against the military, one of our nation’s more popular corporate pastimes.  Be prepared for the Pentagon to side with the crooked contractor and fire [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: Prosecutions, corruption, greed and other news Where DynCorp goes drunken... Read Full Story

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Four Tajiks killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan (Monsters and Critics) – Kabul – February 12, 2012 – A helicopter used by a civilian company contracted to NATO crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing all four Tajik crew members, officials said Sunday. The crash was due to [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: Three killed as civilian helicopter crashes in Afghanistan (Updated) Supreme Group Probed... Read Full Story

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" By ROD NORDLAND (NYTimes) Published: February 11, 2012 KABUL, Afghanistan — Even dying is being outsourced here. This is a war where traditional military jobs, from mess hall cooks to base guards and convoy drivers, have increasingly been shifted to the private sector. Many American generals [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: Electrical Risks at Bases in Iraq Worse Than Previously Said Defense... Read Full Story

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Nashville gun company’s owner trying to avoid trial on gun smuggling charges Brandon Gee – (The Tennessean) – February 10, 2012 – An Englishman is borrowing the legal tactics of a radical American movement in an attempt to dodge federal gun-smuggling charges — or at least [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: Feds raid defense contractor in Nashville Self proclaimed Lord of War’s company going down the... Read Full Story

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Published: Thursday, February 09, 2012, 2:20 PM     Updated: Thursday, February 09, 2012, 2:33 PM By Mike Francis, The Oregonian An unspecified number of the 34 Oregon National Guard soldiers suing contractor KBR Inc. over their exposure to sodium dichromate in Iraq will have their cases [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: KBR wants to appeal Judge Papak’s decision on the Oregon National Guard case... Read Full Story

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" NEIL GORDON – (POGO) – February 8, 2012 – The Air Force has just suspended from federal contracting a unit of global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and recommended it for debarment. The notice was posted in the Excluded Parties List System on Monday. The EPLS [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: DoD Suspension and Debarment: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Eric Hamilton... Read Full Story

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" (AFP) – February 8, 2012 – Iraq deeply mistrusts private security companies and wants to limit their operations here, officials say, while the contractors themselves have faced bureaucratic delays and detentions. This mistrust stems from perceived arrogant behaviour by employees of these firms in the past [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: Private-Security Firm Sued For (Allegedly) Shooting Up A Cab In... Read Full Story

Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Ms Sparky - is a post from: "Ms Sparky" Former U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Sentenced to Prison for Role in Scheme to Steal Military Equipment in Iraq WASHINGTON – A former U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) gunnery sergeant was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for conspiring to steal at least 55 electrical generators [...] Other related posts from Ms Sparky: Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Eric Hamilton pleads guilty Former mayor of FOB Ridgway... Read Full Story