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Claire McCaskill: “Well, as you know, we had a Tamimi problem in the LOGCAP contract where we have kickbacks with KBR, and that is one of…”

On the recordApril 16, 2012
Well, as you know, we had a Tamimi problem in the LOGCAP contract where we have kickbacks with KBR, and that is one of those large duration wartime contracts that is kind of the poster child for contracting gone badly.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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McCaskill discusses issues with wartime contracting and specific problems with the LOGCAP contract.

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