"What we can't afford from the defense perspective is a sick industry," said Jacques S. Gansler, a former procurement official for the Pentagon who teaches at the University of Maryland.
She was most likely referring to the video in which Holly O'Donnell, a former procurement technician for a biomedical company, talks about having seen a fully formed aborted fetus, with its heart still beating, in a pathology lab.
Nevertheless, footage of this fetus is made to "illustrate" an interview with Holly O'Donnell, a former procurement technician for a biomedical company called StemExpress, which once worked with Planned Parenthood to collect tissue for medical research but no longer does anything with PP.
A former U.S.A.I.D. procurement agent named Ibrahim wrote that he was stranded in Egypt after having paid traffickers twelve thousand dollars to smuggle him from Baghdad to Dubai to Mumbai to Alexandria, with the goal of reaching Europe.
At BellSouth, Pat Shannon, a former controller, runs procurement.
Another person caught in the sting was Lieutenant General Sir Richard Applegate, a former head of procurement at the Ministry of Defence.
Stan Solloway, a former top Pentagon procurement official who now heads an association of contractors, said the company "understood the military mind-set" and "did a very good job in the Balkans".
Those fooled included Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, president of the Royal British Legion; Lord Dannatt, former head of the army; Admiral Trevor Soar, former head of the Royal Navy fleet; Lieutenant General Richard Applegate, a former head of procurement at the Ministry of Defence; Lord Stirrup, former chief of the defence staff, and General Sir Mike Jackson, former head of the army.
The problems caused to Russian business by Mr Putin's anti-Western rants are becoming more obvious.So is infighting within the elite, demonstrated by the downfall of Anatoly Serdyukov, a former defence minister involved in a procurement scandal.
The company also enlisted prominent lobbyists in the city procurement process, including Gino P. Menchini, a former commissioner at the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, and Agostino Cangemi, a former deputy commissioner at the same agency.
The junta leader Samuel Doe, a former army sergeant, made Taylor head of the country's procurement unit and gave him a cabinet post.
