Chart: Iraqi Translators, a Casualty List
The following spreadsheet, an internal L-3 document from May 2008, lists 667 cases of Iraqis injured or killed while working under contract as translators for U.S. military forces. The spreadsheet includes date and cause of death or injury. ProPublica has deleted names and other identifying information to protect the identify of the translators, who risk assassination by insurgents. The list is only partial. A total of 360 translators died and more than 1,200 were wounded during the lifetime of the L-3 contract, according to … more…
Labor Dept., Congress Plan Improvements to System to Care for Injured War Contractors
The Labor Department has launched a series of changes to improve the controversial federal system designed to provide medical care and … more…
Civilian Contractor Toll in Iraq and Afghanistan Ignored by Defense Dept.
As the war in Afghanistan entered its ninth year, the Labor Department recently released new figures for the number of civilian contract … more…
Former Iraq Security Contractors Say Firm Bought Black Market Weapons, Swapped Booze for Rockets
Last spring, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Iraq got a makeover, replacing the scandal-plagued Blackwater private security company … more…
Tortured Profession: Psychologists Warned of Abusive Interrogations, Then Helped Craft Them
Update: May 7, 2009 5:45 p.m.
A version of this story was also published in Salon.
Psychologists versed in the military's … more…
Top Military Biolab Suspends Research After Pentagon Finds Trouble With Tracking Pathogens
The U.S. Army has suspended research with deadly agents and toxins at the military's top germ warfare lab, which came under intense … more…
Commission on Wartime Contractors Discovers…Afghanistan
The congressionally mandated Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan met for the first time in Washington D.C. today, … more…
As Army Suicides Mount, Officials Promise (Again) to Address It
Yesterday, the Pentagon announced that the rate of soldiers committing suicides increased last year to the highest level in thirty … more…
Pentagon Keeps Mum on Who’s at Bagram
An untold portion of the 600 detainees at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan were captured outside the country while engaged in peaceful … more…
Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders
BAGHDAD — An unpublished, 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the … more…
Another (Little-Noticed) Setback for Gitmo Prosecutors
There have been two significant developments at Guantanamo Bay today. Five detainees accused of being connected to 9/11 have announced … more…
September 07, 2009
Sailors’ Abuse Kept Silent in Navy Canine Unit Rachel Krantz, Youth Radio, September 07, 2009
August 20, 2009
C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help in Plan to Kill Jihadists Mark Mazzetti , NYT, August 20, 2009
July 17, 2009
Texas Gov. Refused Stimulus, Wants Loan Stephanie Condon, CBS News, July 17, 2009
May 04, 2009
Murtha’s Nephew Named a Lobbyist for Marines David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, May 04, 2009
April 16, 2009
Officials: Troops Hurt by Brain-Injury Focus Gregg Zoroya, USA Today, April 16, 2009
April 08, 2009
VA Probes Link Between HIV-Positive Patient and Unsterilized Equipment AP, April 08, 2009
March 31, 2009
U.S. Decides to Release Detainee at Gitmo William Glaberson, New Yorks Times, March 31, 2009
Army Sergeant Pleads Guilty to Murder in Iraqi Prisoner Deaths Craig Whitlock, Washington Post, March 31, 2009
March 26, 2009
GAO Report: Pentagon’s Africa Command Needs to Refine Mission Eric Schmitt, New York Times, March 26, 2009
March 19, 2009
Army Is Phasing Out Stop-Loss for Soldiers Yochi J. Dreazen, Wall Street Journal ($), March 19, 2009
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