Oversight Group Reports Security Flaws at U.S. Embassy in Kabul (Oops)

Fox News ^ | September 1, 2009

[Kaslin]

In a 10-page letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Project on Government Oversight claims problems among guards hired to protect staff at the U.S. embassy in Kabul have led to a breakdown in morale and leadership, compromising security.

WASHINGTON -- Guards hired by the U.S. State Department to protect diplomats and staff at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan live and work in an environment that finds them subjected to hazing and other inappropriate behavior by supervisors, a government oversight group alleged Tuesday.

In a 10-page letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Project on Government Oversight contended the situation has led to a breakdown in morale and leadership, compromising security at the embassy in Kabul where nearly 1,000 U.S. diplomats, staff and Afghan nationals work.

The group is urging Clinton to begin an investigation of the contract with ArmorGroup North America. It also recommends that she ask the Pentagon to provide "immediate military supervision" of the private security force at the embassy.

The oversight group's findings are based on interviews with ArmorGroup guards, documents, photographs and e-mails.

[kenavi]

They get “hazed”?!

[angkor]

Here’s the POGO site, and their letter.

http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/letters/contract-oversight/co-gp-20090901.html

It must be serious for the contractors to go to an outside agent.

And interesting that 2/3 of the Embassy security force is described as “Gurkha.”

[af_vet_rr]

If you saw the photos, engaging in homosexual behavior would be a better choice of words than anything having to do with hazing. The thing that bothers me is that apparently there are foreign nationals handling security for American government employees which really brings into question how serious national security is being handled there.