<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
   <title>FiascoJones&apos;s Blog</title>
   <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/fiascojones/" />
   <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/fiascojones/atom.xml" />
   <id>tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2009:/talk/blogs/fiascojones//14572</id>
   <updated>2009-09-13T20:03:05Z</updated>
   
   <generator uri="http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/">Movable Type Pro 4.21-en</generator>


<entry>
   <title>Beyond the Breaking Point</title>
   <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/fiascojones/2009/09/beyond-the-breaking-point.php" />
   <id>tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2009:/talk/blogs/fiascojones//14572.289722</id>
   
   <published>2009-09-13T19:56:52Z</published>
   <updated>2009-09-13T20:03:05Z</updated>
   
   <summary><![CDATA[Fishing around the interwebs when I found Nathan Hodge's article in Danger Room about the misdeeds of Armor Group contractors. He qutoes Spencer Ackerman's&nbsp; key paragraph: Perhaps most seriously, Gordon said that he found out that both guards and even...]]></summary>
   <author>
      <name>FiascoJones</name>
      <uri>http://www.fiascojones.com</uri>
   </author>
   
      <category term="Cafe" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
   
   
   <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/fiascojones/">
      <![CDATA[Fishing around the interwebs when I found Nathan Hodge's article in Danger Room about the misdeeds of Armor Group contractors. He qutoes Spencer Ackerman's&nbsp; <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/58491/whistleblowers-unveil-more-armorgroup-allegations">key paragraph</a>:<p><br /></p>
<blockquote><p><em>Perhaps most seriously, Gordon said that he found
out that both guards and even ArmorGroup program manager Nick Du
Plessis were regularly frequenting brothels in Kabul. "Many of the
prostitutes in Kabul are young Chinese girls who were taken against
their will to Kabul for sexual exploitation," Gordon said. Federal
contracting regulations designed to support the Trafficking in Victims
Protection Act prevents contractors from "procuring commercial sex acts
during the period of performance of the contract," meaning that
ArmorGroup could lose its contract if State learned of the violation.
Yet Gordon's lawsuit alleges he was shut out of an investigation into
the solicitation of prostitutes at the behest of Armor Group's
London-based parent company, despite recurring evidence that ArmorGroup
employees continued to solicit prostitutes and perhaps even run their
own prostitution services. A trainee boasted to Gordon "that he could
purchase a girl for $20,000 and turn a profit after a month."</em><br /></p><p>Source:http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/09/whistleblowers-vs-the-101st-tequila-brigade/#more-16939</p><p><br /></p></blockquote> ]]>
      
   </content>
</entry>

<entry>
   <title>Time and Time Again</title>
   <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/fiascojones/2009/07/time-and-time-again.php" />
   <id>tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2009:/talk/blogs/fiascojones//14572.277971</id>
   
   <published>2009-07-02T23:05:18Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-02T23:09:02Z</updated>
   
   <summary>I&apos;m not too sure if I should be completely fed up with the Obama administration or just continue to hold out hope that it will eventually transform into the one I envisioned when I was casting my ballot.The news that...</summary>
   <author>
      <name>FiascoJones</name>
      <uri>http://www.fiascojones.com</uri>
   </author>
   
      <category term="Cafe" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
   
   
   <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/fiascojones/">
      <![CDATA[I'm not too sure if I should be completely fed up with the Obama administration or just continue to hold out hope that it will eventually transform into the one I envisioned when I was casting my ballot.<br /><br />The news that the administration is aligning themselves with so many Bush era initiatives is giving me an ulcer. <br /><br />What to do?<br /> ]]>
      
   </content>
</entry>

</feed>

 
