Whistle Blowers Fired for Exposing US Sec. Guards Sex Antics

The US Embassy in Kabul has fired eight of the guards shown in the lewd photographs, while two others had resigned, and that the contractor’s local management team was also being replaced. The private security firm ArmorGroup North America (Wackenhut) fired the whistle blowers who notified the State Department and made the pictures public.

ArmorGroup’s parent corporation, Wackenhut Services, responded to inquiries by stating that it is “fully cooperating” with the Department of State in investigating the incidents. However, according to the executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, which broke the scandal, Wackenhut’s cooperation with the State Department investigation may be less than wholehearted.

Danielle Brian told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday that one of the whistleblowers has already been forced to resign, whole those who were involved in the incidents are being let go quietly and without being held responsible.

In addition, Brian has received a copy of an email sent to the ArmorGroup guards in Kabul “that told them … they are not allowed to speak to a State Department investigator without a supervisor being there with them.”

“So I don’t have a lot of faith that the State Department’s going to be able to dig up much on their own,” Brian emphasized. “The good guys are still the ones who are really in danger and are taking the fall. The bad guys are not yet being held accountable.”

It also turns out that both the State Department and the Senate investigated the ArmorGroup contract in 2007. The State Department twice issued stern warnings but still renewed the contract in July 20008.

“I’ve got emails today from a guard who’s still there,” Brian stated, “showing that in 2007 he was raising concerns about some of these supervisors who were over in training in the US, and he was saying … ‘These guys are weird. They are doing weird, deviant hazing. We need to do something about it.’”

This supervisor at ArmorGroup who received these emails quickly passed the information on to the State Department — and was fired as a result.