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On 20 September 2006, ''[[Rolling Stone magazine]]'' published an article on the story entitled "Another Tale of Waste and Fraud Unpunished".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061017051243/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11729724/the_low_post_another_tale_of_waste_and_fraud_unpunished "Your tax dollars at work: In Washington, another tale of waste and fraud unpunished"], ''[[Rolling Stone magazine]]'', September 19, 2006</ref> | On 20 September 2006, ''[[Rolling Stone magazine]]'' published an article on the story entitled "Another Tale of Waste and Fraud Unpunished".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061017051243/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11729724/the_low_post_another_tale_of_waste_and_fraud_unpunished "Your tax dollars at work: In Washington, another tale of waste and fraud unpunished"], ''[[Rolling Stone magazine]]'', September 19, 2006</ref> | ||
On 28 September 2006, ''The New York Times'' reported that the F-22 multiyear contract had been approved by Congress despite opposition from | On 28 September 2006, ''The New York Times'' reported that the F-22 multiyear contract had been approved by Congress despite opposition from Donald Rumsfeld, [[George W. Bush]] and the present and future chairmen of top U.S. Government military procurement committees. ''The New York Times'' suggested that the military industrial lobby that pushed the F-22 multiyear programme was more powerful than the elected officials who oversee government military spending including the [[President of the United States]] himself.<ref>[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10F15FD3D540C7B8EDDA00894DE404482 "Air Force Jet Wins Battle in Congress"], September 28, 2006</ref> | ||
On 1 December 2006, ''The Washington Post'' reported that the U.S. Inspector General had found that although Blair had indeed violated IDA's conflict of interest policy by working for both EDO and IDA at the same time, his actions had not affected IDA's results on the F-22.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101451.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025031642/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101451.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-10-25 | newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> It also found that Blair's involvement in the IDA F-22 MYP study was "minimal," with no involvement in conducting the analysis or preparing or reviewing the report before it was finalized.<ref name="coireport" /> | On 1 December 2006, ''The Washington Post'' reported that the U.S. Inspector General had found that although Blair had indeed violated IDA's conflict of interest policy by working for both EDO and IDA at the same time, his actions had not affected IDA's results on the F-22.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101451.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025031642/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120101451.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-10-25 | newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> It also found that Blair's involvement in the IDA F-22 MYP study was "minimal," with no involvement in conducting the analysis or preparing or reviewing the report before it was finalized.<ref name="coireport" /> | ||
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===EDO Director Paul Kern and allegations of war crimes at Abu Ghraib/EDO links with Titan Corporation=== | ===EDO Director Paul Kern and allegations of war crimes at Abu Ghraib/EDO links with Titan Corporation=== | ||
[[File:Generals Kern Fay Jones.jpg|thumb|General [[Paul J. Kern|Paul Kern]] receiving the report on the [[Abu Ghraib]] scandal from Generals George Fay and Anthony Jones]] | [[File:Generals Kern Fay Jones.jpg|thumb|General [[Paul J. Kern|Paul Kern]] receiving the report on the [[Abu Ghraib]] scandal from Generals George Fay and Anthony Jones]] | ||
While still serving in the U.S. military General [[Paul J. Kern|Paul Kern]] was appointed by Defense Secretary | While still serving in the U.S. military General [[Paul J. Kern|Paul Kern]] was appointed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to report on an internal investigation into the [[Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse]]. In August 2004 he presented the [[Fay Report]] largely absolving the military hierarchy of blame for the torture and sexual abuse.<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/congress/2004_hr/040909-kern.pdf "Statement by General Paul Kern, commanding General, United States Army Material Command, before the Armed Services Committee"], September 9, 2004</ref> Kern blamed the torture in part on the civilian contractors working with [[military intelligence]] services in the prison. One of the companies involved was identified as [[Titan Corporation]], a contractor that supplies technology and 'civilian interrogators' to military intelligence. (The company has close links to the US intelligence community. Former CIA director [[James Woolsey]] has served on its board of directors.) However Kern did not advise that Titan Corporation should be charged with any criminal offence. Kern had been picked by Rumsfeld to investigate the Military Intelligence operations at Abu Ghraib after an earlier report which had implicated them in the torture. This earlier report was called the [[Taguba Report]] and because of its controversial reference to 'systematic abuse' was kept secret until it was leaked to [[Seymour Hersh]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.corpwatch.org/downloads/taguba.pdf |title=Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade |work=CorpWatch |date=9 March 2004 |access-date=July 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105220223/http://corpwatch.org/downloads/taguba.pdf |archive-date=5 January 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In June 2007 Hersh published an article on Taguba who was forced to resign after submitting the report to Rumsfeld. | ||
A few enlisted U.S. soldiers were eventually convicted, and imprisoned as a result of the investigations. Titan Corporation sacked one of their employees [[Adel Nakhla]] who had admitted holding down prisoners who were being tortured. Another Titan employee [[John Israel]], a 'civilian interrogator/interpreter' identified by the Taguba Report as one of the four main people believed to have been responsible for the [[torture]] is suspected by some journalists including [[Robert Fisk]] of being an Israeli agent.<ref>[http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1784 "Who is Behind the Abuse at Abu Ghraib?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720113432/http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=1784 |date=2006-07-20 }}, ''Truth Seeker'', May 6, 2004</ref> | A few enlisted U.S. soldiers were eventually convicted, and imprisoned as a result of the investigations. Titan Corporation sacked one of their employees [[Adel Nakhla]] who had admitted holding down prisoners who were being tortured. Another Titan employee [[John Israel]], a 'civilian interrogator/interpreter' identified by the Taguba Report as one of the four main people believed to have been responsible for the [[torture]] is suspected by some journalists including [[Robert Fisk]] of being an Israeli agent.<ref>[http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1784 "Who is Behind the Abuse at Abu Ghraib?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720113432/http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=1784 |date=2006-07-20 }}, ''Truth Seeker'', May 6, 2004</ref> | ||