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The problems began in 2007 when ArmorGroup, a private security company working on a Pentagon subcontract, hired two local warlords on the U.S. intelligence payroll to provide armed guards at an airfield on the western edge of Afghanistan.

Those warlords fought each other for control of the weapons and money ArmorGroup was giving out. The tangle of espionage and tribal infighting eventually drew in the very same military units that had helped empower the warlords in the first place.

After two Pentagon investigations, the U.S. military denied any wrongdoing. Defense Department officials declined to comment for this story.

A 2010 Senate Armed Services Committee inquiry laid blame with both ArmorGroup and the Defense Department for doing business with the warlords. In response to the Senate report, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued a letter recognizing problems with contract oversight, which he pledged to fix.

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Lt. Colonel Rachel E. VanLandingham, a retired officer with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps and the chief of international law at Central Command’s headquarters during the Azizabad raid, said the commanders responsible for investigating the incident seemed to ignore the failures instead of learning from them. She did not know the details of the operation or the military’s response until contacted by USA TODAY.

“The CENTCOM investigation seemed more worried about looking good than being good,” VanLandingham, now a law professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, said in an interview. “Everyone who deploys in Afghanistan should know this incident.”

ArmorGroup agreed to a Pentagon requirement that it fill the guard positions by hiring nearby villagers. It was part of the Pentagon’s economic stimulus plan for Afghanistan, but it also was less expensive than bringing in guards from outside the country.

"We are a commercial company, of course, we are looking to do the business as cheap as possible,” a company official later told U.S. military investigators.

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Bref, l’article de #USA_Today sur le bombardement d’ #Azizabad n’y est pas...
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azizabad_airstrike

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Dans les boites avec service informatique et salariés qui doivent se déplacer à l’international, la consigne est généralement de retirer un laptop et un téléphone dédiés aux voyages, c’est à dire absolument sans aucune donnée.
Les données sont stockées dans le cloud. Il y a une procédure pour nettoyer le laptop et le téléphone avant de rentrer et donc de repasser dans l’autre sens.

Bien sûr, il est rigoureusement interdit d’utiliser les réseaux wifi locaux, particulièrement ceux des hôtels et des aéroports.

Au début, c’était une procédure plutôt réservée avec certains pays sensibles comme la Chine, mais à présent, tout passage de frontière est considéré comme non sécurisé pour les données de l’entreprise.

Donc, quel genre de journaliste peut ignorer cette réalité contemporaine ?

of all the countries I’ve been to, the border guards have never treated me worse than here, in the one country I’m a citizen of, in the town where I was born.

Sur le sujet des #mot_de_passe, en #israel, aux #USA, au #Canada et en #France :
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#surveillance #réseaux_sociaux #frontières