Posts tagged “tax-free no-bid cost-plus contracts”

Getting your money’s worth

The New York Times published an unflattering article yesterday on the practice of the government contracting out services to private companies. The article examined the findings of a study done by a nonprofit organization called the Project of Government Oversight, and found, in 33 of 35 occupations, the government actually paid billions of dollars more [...]

Tax-free No-bid Cost-plus Government Contracts

ABC News brings us a couple of juicy tidbits about “the two psychologists credited for being the architects of the CIA’s brutal interrogation program after 9/11″: Dr. James Mitchell and Dr. Bruce Jessen, who suggested and supervised waterboarding at secret prisons around the world … according to their associates, boasted of being paid $1,000 a [...]