Army doesn't check whether contractors are on arms trafficking watch list

Further revelations from the AEY investigation: The army doesn't typically check whether major contractors are on the State Department's arms trafficking watch list, and the State Department may not check it's own list, either.

I have to wonder whether the treatment that AEY received was representative of how contractors are treated in general. It seems equally likely that there was some concerted effort to look the other way in the case of Efraim Diveroli and his sketchy arms dealing outfit.

Comments

[mudkitty]

Efficiency plus!

[pretzelattack]

i think this is the tip of the iceberg. probably an orgy of looting and bad contracts and such is going on as the bush administration/repubs in general prepare for losing power.

[Mary]

Why, with a name like Efraim Diveroli ... he's got to be good!

So goes the current thinking in our political climate, I fear.

[herbert browne]

My own experience with gov't contracting (supplying native vegetation to a NOAA-funded restoration in Puget Sound) resulted in a bombardment- by mail, by email- of offers to "get (my) company some gov't contracts!" by a number of different sources... a small industry, apparently, of its own. Most pointed to DOD as the place to go & sell (despite the fact that my logical market niche- to me- would have been through USDA, or Interior, or Commerce). So much money... & so little time! ^..^