U.S. Cannot Manage Contractors In Wars, Officials Testify on Hill
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With even more U.S. contractors now in Iraq and Afghanistan than U.S. military personnel, government officials told Congress yesterday that the Bush administration is not prepared to manage the contractors' critical involvement in the American war effort.
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The Pentagon will not try to use emergency powers to build a compound to hold war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay, according to a member of a Senate panel that oversees funding for military construction projects.
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With the Iraq government urging that the security firm be fired, the question is how  U.S. diplomats can be protected
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RENO, Nev, Aug. 28--President Bush played down the failure of the Iraqi government to meet political benchmarks set by the U.S. Congress, telling American Legionnaires Tuesday morning that it makes no sense to ignore real military progress despite the Iraqi government's failure to approve all the...
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The two top American military and diplomatic officials in Iraq were unable to argue that the heightened troop levels had made more than fragile and transitory progress.
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The U.S. Congress has the power to end the war in Iraq, a former Bush administration attorney and other high-powered legal experts told a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
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The Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush's Iraq war strategy, congressional auditors have determined.
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The Bush Administration faces a political decision over whether to renew the contract of the security firm protecting U.S. officials in Iraq
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The U.S. Army should withhold some future payments to Halliburton  for work in Iraq due to billing disputes, a government auditor said on Wednesday, a move that could cost the contractor tens of millions of dollars.
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The U.S. Army is laying the groundwork  to let Halliburton Co. keep several billion dollars paid for  work in Iraq that Pentagon auditors say is questionable or  unsupported by proper documentation, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Friday.
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Government lawyers have hampered investigations into waste and fraud at the Homeland Security Department, officials told Congress on Tuesday.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers'  top contracting official on Friday called the government's  grant of multi-billion dollar contracts to oil services giant  Halliburton the worst case of contracting abuse she has ever  seen.
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A group of U.S. pilots tortured in  the first Gulf War by Iraqis has hit an unexpected obstacle in  its legal fight for compensation: Bush administration lawyers  argue Iraq is no longer a pariah and should not be forced to  pay.
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An influential UN-appointed panel challenged the Bush administration&#39;s right to use military force against an enemy that does not pose an imminent military threat.
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The past several months have seen increasing public scrutiny of federal government contractors. The concerns raised by Congress and highlighted in the news media include organizational conflicts of interest, inappropriate outsourcing and excess profits.
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The Pentagon&#39;s internal watchdog is looking into claims by a top Army contracting official that a Halliburton Co. subsidiary unfairly won no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars for support services in Iraq and the Balkans.
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Details of the role civilian contractors played in the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison sparked fresh debate yesterday about the effectiveness of laws and rules meant to govern workers hired to support the military.