Costs Skyrocket As DHS Runs Up No-Bid Contracts

$2 Million Security Project Balloons to $124 Million

The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Department of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running.
Over the next year, the cost of the no-bid arrangement with consultant Booz Allen Hamilton soared by millions of dollars per month, as the firm provided analysts, administrators and other contract employees to the department's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection offices. Full Story »

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Rebecca Hale
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by Rebecca Hale - Oct. 1, 2008

The myth of "the cream rises to the top" in the business world exposed, revealing the true cult of Bully Knows Best. Working taxpayers struggling every month to pay bills while at Private Secret Government Corporation nepotism reigns and rewards delivered are not necessarily connected to performance or accountability. Where has all the money gone.

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