The Count
08/14/2008
As of Tuesday, day 1,972 of the war in Iraq…
$85 billion — 20 percent of all war spending — has been paid to government contractors in Iraq from 2003 to 2007 for work ranging from security to food services, AP reported.
180,000 contract employees currently work in Iraq, and total contract spending will jump
past $100 billion this year, reported The New York Times.
$140 million in contract spending compensated Pasadena-based Parsons Corp.
for unfinished or abandoned projects, including a $40 million prison facility in danger of collapse, according to The Project on Government Oversight.
10,400 employees have been cut from the Defense Contract Management Agency, responsible for government contract oversight, over the past 8 years —a more than 50 percent reduction as contracts quadrupled, UPI reported.
72,000 onetime Iraqi insurgents are under contract with the US military as paid allies for about $300 per month, according to the Brookings Institution.
— Compiled by Joe Piasecki
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