"At one point, two government employees and one
contractor in Baghdad oversaw 500 DynCorp trainers spread throughout
Iraq.
Another contractor, the Academy for Educational Development, paid its
president $879,530 in 2007, despite officially being a nonprofit
organization. By 2010, contractors constituted 30 percent of the people
working for American intelligence agencies, and private sector employees
were conducting interrogations, recruiting spies and abducting
suspected terrorists. In Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, Rohde notes,
the federal government was so strapped for staff that it hired
contractors to oversee the contractors."
