Halliburton, Bechtel, Titan Corporation, CACI International, Dyncorp,
Blackwater, and SAIC are some of the U.S. companies with contracts in Iraq
that are covered in this book. Chatterjee shows that private security is a
waste of money, the quality of the recruits is poor, and accountability is
lacking. To a large extent, the occupation has turned into a boondoggle.
Newly-minted corporations with good connections got fat U.S. contracts,
recruited unqualified people as quickly as possible, and sent them to Iraq
to hit the ground running. Some are security guards, some are interrogators,
and many are infrastructure bureaucrats who skim extra profits. The people
of Iraq pay the most, but U.S. taxpayers pay also, because none of this is
working very well.
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