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Govt. Uses Contractors to Probe Iraq Contractors

An Iraqi traffic policeman on Sept. 20, 2007, inspects a car allegedly destroyed by the security contractor Blackwater Worldwide on Sept. 16, 2007, during a deadly incident in Baghdad's Nisoor Square. (AP)

In an apparent violation of federal regulations, the State Department has outsourced to private contractors the responsibility to investigate possible crimes committed by security contractors in Iraq.

Earlier this year, the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security hired the private firm U.S. Investigations Services (USIS) to fill positions in the newly created Force Investigation Unit (FIU) that investigates potential misuses of force against civilians by U.S. security contractors. The contract investigators have been in Iraq since this summer.

Posted in military industrial complex, Iraq