Sign in with Facebook
James Risen
Born
in Bethesda, The United States
April 27, 1955
Website
Genre
More books by James Risen…
“A 2011 study by the Pentagon found that during the ten years after 9/11, the Defense Department had given more than $400 billion to contractors who had previously been sanctioned in cases involving $1 million or more in fraud.”
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
“During the darkest years of the Iraq war, between 2004 and 2008, there were at least thirty-five convictions in the United States and more than $17 million in fines, forfeitures, and restitution payments made in fraud cases in connection with the American reconstruction of Iraq. But the midlevel officers, enlisted personnel, contractors, and others who have been caught account for only a tiny slice of the billions that have gone missing in Iraq. The biggest thieves have been far more elusive.”
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
“Money from taxpayers in Wichita and Denver and Phoenix gets routed through the Pentagon and CIA and then ends up here, or in Baghdad or Dubai, or Doha or Kabul or Beirut, in the hands of contractors, subcontractors, their local business partners, local sheikhs, local Mukhabarat officers, local oil smugglers, local drug dealers—money that funds construction and real estate speculation in a few choice luxury districts, buildings that go up thanks to the sweat of imported Filipino and Bangladeshi workers”
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
― Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite James to Goodreads.
