Gov’t Used Contractors as Spies

Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 15 March 2010 9:10 AM

The New York Times has an exclusive on its front page this morning about contractors working as spies for the US government. The paper says while it’s “generally considered illegal for the military to hire contractors to act as covert spies,” details about a network set up by a Department of Defense employee to gather information from private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan have come to light. The man implicated in the charges is now under investigation for contract fraud. Some believe the use of contractors in Pakistan was a way for the US government to get around a “Pakistani government’s prohibition of American military personnel’s operating in the country.”

SOURCE: New York Times

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