“auditors and outside exerts say the results have been vast cost overruns, poor contract performance and, in some cases, [unpunished] violence

Spending on private contractors has quadrupled under Bush | Adam Doster | Published: Tuesday October 23, 2007
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According to the New York Times, “the amount of money the State Department pays to private security and has soared to nearly $4 billion a year from $1 billion.” At the same time, few new officials have been hired to oversee the contracts, and “auditors and outside exerts say the results have been vast cost overruns, poor contract performance and, in some cases, violence that has so far gone unpunished.”

Compared to the 70 Army officers managing just $900 million in logistics contracts in Kuwait “there are only 17 contract compliance officers at the State Department’s management bureau overseeing spending of the billions of dollars on these programs.” ...