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Steven Perez
Naomi Klein: Bush admin created ‘free-fraud zone’ in Iraq | Raw Story - http://rawstory.com/2009...
Naomi Klein: Bush admin created ‘free-fraud zone’ in Iraq | Raw Story
"A U.S. military contractor has been indicted by the Justice Department of defrauding the United States government of “tens of millions of dollars,” Rachel Maddow reported Tuesday on MSNBC. The Los Angeles Times said the fraud may be worth over $1 billion dollars. The Kuwait-based company, Agility (formerly known as Public Warehousing Co.), is the main food supplier to the U.S. military in Iraq and has received $8.5 billion in contracts since 2003. "And this, once again, was created by the Bush administration," said Naomi Klein. "It created what one former CPA official -- Coalition Provision Authority official [Franklin Willis] -- described it as a 'free-fraud zone'" in 2005. The CPA was the transitional Iraqi government after the removal of Saddam Hussein." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet
"... Klein’s book, 'No Logo' ... critiques the corporate trends in the 1990s of increased branding and marketing while contracting out the production of goods and services to private firms. “That’s been the most significant development in the world of branding – is the application of this corporate logic to government,” said Klein." - Christopher Chung
Another one to hang on the Gipper. Reagan started outsourcing the government to private firms during his presidency. - Cole Jolley