INSIDE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING

Mother Jones has a fascinating series of articles about Bush operatives and the privatization of government functions:

Civil Servants as the Enemy:

Long before taking over the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld tried to run another agency by contract, with questionable results.

Contracts With America:


Never before have private companies done so much of the government's work, from homeland security to rebuilding Iraq. So who's making sure the public gets its money's worth? Why, contractors, of course.

Out of Sight

Federal contracting is as old as the Constitution. But we still haven’t figured out how to keep our private government accountable.