SAM BLACK: We’ve received no response from the Pentagon as of yet. I mean, I think what’s remarkable is that over the last 10 years, there hasn’t been a single contractor or subcontractor that’s been suspended from one of these contracts, been terminated. There’s been no prosecutions, not even a civil action directed at one of these companies. And as Anjali said, in 2006—this has been reported since 2006. And, you know, we had limited resources. We were able to go to a base. We were able to communicate with people in India. And it wasn’t that hard for us to find 90 percent of the people we talked to had paid fees. AMY GOODMAN: DynCorp and Fluor— SAM BLACK: Yeah. AMY GOODMAN: —are the two multinational corporations, who get how much? ANJALI KAMAT: So, they get—because of the type of contract they have, they get whatever the subcontractors are charging them, plus— AMY GOODMAN: But they’ve been paid over billions. ANJALI KAMAT: —$53.6 billion, overall, not just DynCorp and Fluor. SAM BLACK: That also includes KBR. KBR is actually the prime contractor that was—managed the Iraq War and is still in Bahrain. It’s just not in Afghanistan. So, actually, it’s the biggest player of them all. Isnt KBR the firm that sponsored the meetings between the Pentagon, the Oil Industry, and the Bush/Cheney Energy task force to make plans for the invasion of Iraq in 2002-2003? I guess it wasnt JUST about oil, it was also about human trafficking. It appears it still is.
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