Less Lawyers, More Auditors
Posted by Michael Cohen
David Isenberg has a very good piece up today on the Blackwater indictments, with this excellent takeaway:
The proper utilization of private military and security contractors depends on having a prepared and educated client. If the people, meaning the U.S. government, who hire contractors are not prepared to not only write a detailed contract, but also monitor and audit it, meaning having capable and adequately resourced contracting officers who go out in the field to check up on contractors, then bad things will continue to happen.
The best thing is to prevent bad things from happening in the first place, not to have adequate means to prosecute them after they happen. What that means is less lawyers and more auditors. Up to now the government has been missing in action on that count.
This is exactly right. I have no problem with indicting these guards if they broke the law, but let's not be confused about who is ultimately to blame here; it's not Blackwater, it's the government that sent them to Iraq without thinking about the implications of having private security contractors working in an active battle space.
I wish you could get over this "man crush" you have for big burly mercenaries.
No one at the State Department or any where else in Government is going to willingly put their head on the chopping block so that the rogue actions of more than a few contractor can get it loped off.
Foreign shipping companies who you would think would be falling all over themselves to take up Blackwaters offer of supplying "pirate busters" are in fact very cool to the idea. Unlike U.S. Government agencies the shipping companies would be held liable in civil even criminal court if things went wrong particularly in regards to "collateral damage" and "mistaken identity". With Blackwaters track record it's a near certainty that things would go wrong.
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