This is just another issue and problem when government is contracted out. Contractors care not for human rights or even human decency, they are all about making money. When profit guides your behavior your reputation matters only to the flunkies in Washington who hope one day to be on your board so they too can rape and pillage. This is where the republicans have been leading the nation since Reagan.
"Democracies have great rational and imaginative powers. They also are prone to some serious flaws in reasoning, to parochialism, haste, sloppiness, selfishness, narrowness of the spirit. Education based mainly on profitability in the global market magnifies these deficiencies, producing a greedy obtuseness and a technically trained docility that threaten the very life of democracy itself, and that certainly impede the creation of a decent world culture." Martha Nussbaum
Documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act describe previously undisclosed offenses committed by more than 200 contract employees of the State Department in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries between 2004 and 2008.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/19/AR2010121901240.html
At two in the morning on Sept. 9, 2005, five DynCorp International security guards assigned to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's protective detail returned to their compound drunk, with a prostitute in tow. Less than a week later, three of these same guards got drunk again, this time in the VIP lounge of the Kabul airport while awaiting a flight to Thailand.
"They had been intoxicated, loud and obnoxious," according to an internal company report of the incident, which noted that Afghanistan's deputy director for elections and a foreign diplomat were also in the lounge. "Complaints were made regarding the situation." DynCorp fired the three guards.
Such episodes represent the headaches that U.S. contractors can cause in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. They are indispensable to the State Department's mission overseas, handling security, transportation, construction, food service and more. But when hired hands behave badly — or break the law — they cast a cloud over the American presence.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...7MXklg?docId=74edfea5019b4b83ae8d7c4885ec41a9
Hanif Atmar, the Afghan interior minister, rushed over to the United States embassy and demanded diplomats there quash an article — unaware, it seemed, of the concept of a free press.
The topic: DynCorp International, an American contractor, had asked Afghan police to “purchase a service from a child,” as a State Department cable made public by WikiLeaks described it. The idea was to stage a “dancing boys” party for DynCorp workers.
Dancing boys is a prettified moniker for a sordid, culturally sanctioned Afghan practice more accurately characterized as pedophilia.
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/17/2528080/dancing-boy-at-a-us-party-raises.html#ixzz18aYpkAhT
