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To: Sdgla who wrote (37279)	1/8/2013 1:01:04 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) of 85487

"Gov has morphed into a bloated waste machine." One man's waste machine is another's profit center. Let's take the waste out of the military and utilize enlisted personnel, instead of making it profitable for the private sector to electrocute our fighting forces, or "people on federal assistance", as some call them..... Army documents obtained by CNN show that U.S.-paid contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) inspected the building and found serious electrical problems a full 11 months before Maseth was electrocuted. KBR noted "several safety issues concerning the improper grounding of electrical devices." But KBR's contract did not cover "fixing potential hazards." It covered repairing items only after they broke down. Only after Maseth died did the Army issue an emergency order for KBR to finally fix the electrical problems, and that order was carried out soon thereafter. In an internal e-mail obtained by CNN, a Navy captain admits that the Army should have known "the extent of the severity of the electrical problems." The e-mail then says the reason the Army did not know was because KBR's inspections were never reviewed by a "qualified government employee." cnn.com

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