"U.S. Wasting Billions While Tripling No-Bid Contracts After Decade of War in Iraq, Afghanistan" (with video)

Democracy Now! with video (31:40):

As the war in Afghanistan approaches its 10th anniversary, a pair of new reports reveal how the Pentagon has squandered tens of billions of dollars while tripling the amount of no-bid contracts. The bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting concludes that between $31 billion and $60 billion spent on projects in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 10 years has been lost to waste and fraud. MORE...