Democrats press backyard spending.     When President Obama promised Wednesday to attack defense spending that he considers wasteful and inefficient, he opened a fight with key lawmakers from his own party.     It was Democrats who stu...

UPDATE 3-2-09: Marine One Breach Has Winners and LosersExcerpts From The Raw Story "A Pittsburgh-area company that monitors peer-to-peer networks accessed with file-sharing software like LimeWire and Napster says... read more...

Two former KBR electricians, Debbie Crawford and Jefferey Bliss, told a Senate committee last summer that KBR's failures to enforce safety protocols when installing electrical equipment for the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan had led to the deaths of 13 soldiers and contractors. (Photo: Getty Im...

With the increasing in people’s awareness for the health of our environment, industrials are also demanded to start the action that will help to maintain the environment while keeping their operational cost low. We also need the solution to reduce waste and reuse expensive solvents as apart of...

    A former defense contractor who gave more than $1 million in gifts -- including cash, home furnishings, a Rolls-Royce and an antique commode -- to then-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) was sentenced yesterday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison.     Mi...

KBR failed to provide adequate water safety, resulting in toxic drinking and bathing water. This war profiteer also failed to manage a medical incinerator properly, instead disposing medical waste and human remains in an open air burn pit. As former KBR Water Purification Specialist Ben Carter descr...

    Washington - Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in the deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting of Iraqi civilians could face mandatory 30-year prison sentences under an aggressive anti-drug law being considered as the Justice Department readies indictments, people close to the case sa...

Obama has said he wants public employees to take back some of the work that the Bush administration has given to private contractors — and he wants to crack down on contractors' abuses. But Obama could find it difficult to shake things up.Today, there are more contractors in Iraq then US troops.Is...

Did you notice that Metro Council has one member who lists as one of his past military experiences "Contractor" in Iraq in 2004? Given the generally checkered reputation of military contractors for fraud and waste in Iraq under the Bush Administration, I would say that it takes chutzpa to self-ident...

It could just be me, but it seems like one of the key constitutional questions of our time is how to circumscribe military action against non-state actors. That is, how far can the President dive into warfare before before being brought up short by Congress. The War Powers Act doesn't seem to be doi...