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January 23, 2013
By Adam Zagorin
Lawsuit: Kabul Embassy Guards Told to Lie About Long Hours
Guards responsible for protecting the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, have often worked 14 to 18 hours per day for six or seven days per week and have been directed to file false time records to avoid revealing that they have exceeded the standard 72-h
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Topics: Contract Oversight
October 19, 2012
By Joe Newman
We've Seen This Before: Video of Drunk Security Contractors
There are lurid parallels between a new investigation of private security contractors drunk in Kabul and a similar POGO investigation three years ago.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
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In March 2011, AllGov reported that DARPA, the Pentagon's premier research arm, had awarded a contract to a company founded by the agency's director. Wired's Spencer Ackerman joined POGO staffers to discuss how it all went down.
