Govt. Uses Contractors to Probe Iraq Contractors–ANC News headline
State Dept. Move to Let Contractors Probe Complaints Over Other Contractors May Be Illegal
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By KIRIT RADIA
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Oct. 3, 2008In an apparent violation of federal regulations, the State Department has outsourced to private contractors the responsibility to investigate possible crimes committed by security contractors in Iraq.
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Earlier this year, the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security hired the private firm U.S. Investigations Services (USIS) to fill positions in the newly created Force Investigation Unit (FIU) that investigates potential misuses of force against civilians by U.S. security contractors. The contract investigators have been in Iraq since this summer.*
A Dark Water Claims Adjusting agent hired by the Pentagon investigates the completed front-end repair of an Iraqi national’s automobile. The Iraqi complained that the body work performed by Dark Water Detailing still left him with no radiator, grill, lights or bumper which were eradicated by Dark Water Security assault rifle fire during an event celebrating a loan from Dark Water Financial to the owner of a new Dark Water Blown-Out Burger franchise in the Dark Water Fashion Island Mega Mall in Baghdad.
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