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Claire McCaskill: “How do we accomplish that if the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing and we are paying our contractors…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2009
How do we accomplish that if the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing and we are paying our contractors more than those military or police make?
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the effectiveness of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan regarding contractor pay.

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