Top 100 private contractors in US wars
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been very, very good for these private contractors. Here's a list of the top 100 private contractors, as reported by The Center for Public Integrity's "Windfalls of War II."
Here's an alphabetical list of the contractors with company bios, and here's the list of the Top 100 contractors. (Via The day they tried to kill me)
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Good to see that Capital Shredder Corporation is still in business.
How long before this is cross-referenced to their top shareholders?
20.4 billion dollars to unidentified foreign entities.
Sure wish there was a paper trail on that money. Anyone have any estimates/guesstimates on how it breaks down?
"Topping KBR’s haul, 20.4 billion dollars was awarded for services from “unidentified foreign entities” not identified in US government contracts.
The Center for Public Integrity, which says it is a non-partisan group that investigates major public issues, said it was seeking more information on those contracts through the Freedom of Information Act.
The group said that 31 of the contractors on the top 100 list were foreign, including 12 from Turkey."
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/20/5359/
I'm not sure how useful this is. For instance, CH2M Hill is ranked #11 by total contract value, and it caught my eye because I drive past their office building in Orange County fairly often, and didn't know anything about them. Well, if you read the information Windfalls of War provides, all CH2M Hill seems to be doing in Iraq is building water projects. Doesn't seem particularly evil to me. You could even argue that since we destroyed the country's infrastructure, it's our moral duty to rebuild it. I guess there's some line here between positive rebuilding work and the kind of war profiteering that Halliburton does, but the information at Windfalls of War doesn't help me to find where that line can be drawn.