And the companies are not required to report violent incidents involving their employees. Security guards now constitute nearly 50 percent of all private contractors in Iraq. The wartime numbers of ...

Blackwater USA—with more than a billion dollars in federal contracts—was on the carpet today on Capitol Hill. Congressional investigators claim that Blackwater guards shot first in almost 200 ...

JOHNSTON, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Wednesday called for stepping up oversight of private security firms in Iraq and blamed the Bush administration for not initially ...