From Middle Earth Journal’s Jazz Shaw:
We’ve been doing a bit of background research here at MEJ, and a story that started out looking like yet another case of taxpayer dollars being shuffled into the hands of questionable private contractors has taken a few turns which have made the plot thicken. The first issue was this story stuck back on page 4 in the wapo about a $475M no-bid contract being improperly awarded to “a little-known company” in Alaska for the maintenance of x-ray and nuclear radiation monitoring equipment at border checkpoints for the Department of Homeland Security. This tale takes a few turns…. but please bear with me. It gets interesting.
Read the entire post to find out the intriguing details…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.