So Vance says he blew the whistle, supplying photos and documents and other intelligence to an FBI agent in his hometown of Chicago because he didn’t know whom to trust in Iraq.
For his trouble, he says, he got 97 days in Camp Cropper, an American military prison outside Baghdad that once held Saddam Hussein, and he was classified a security detainee.
Reading between the lines, what I want to know is: Who was that FBI agent posing as when Vance passed classified intel to him? Al Qaida? Iranians? Homegrown terrorists?
I'm glad the FBI is catching these guys.
Perhaps this article is a little clearer:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889855/posts
This is a big problem. There are investigations ongoing.
“The investigation into contracts for materiel to Iraqi soldiers and police officers is part of an even larger series of criminal cases. As of Aug. 23, there were 73 criminal investigations related to contracting, fraud and abuse in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan, Colonel Dan Baggio, an army spokesman, said Monday. Twenty civilians and military personnel have been charged in federal court as a result of the 73 inquiries, he said. The inquiries involve contracts valued at more than $5 billion, and Baggio said that the charges so far involved more than $15 million in bribes.
Just last week, an army major, his wife and his sister were indicted on charges that they accepted up to $9.6 million in bribes for Defense Department contracts in Iraq and Kuwait.”