PENTAGON UNDER PRESSURE TO INVESTIGATE ELECTROCUTION DEATHS IN IRAQ.
So,they should!
These private contractor guys,whether mercenary soldiers or building/maintenance contractors ALL get paid under contract/sub-contract from the PENTAGON,from appropriations from our Congress/DoD.
'PRIVATE' is still getting paid by FEDERAL!
They include the mercenary soldiers in the Total Forces stats,but REFUSE TO recognise/count their DEATHS or circumstances of death???
The big no-bid companies like Halliburton/KBR/Blackwater/Triple Canopy/CACI etc walk off with BILLIONS in profits,while the private soldiers,or ELECTRICIANS that wire up the barracks,get paid peanuts!
In other words they risk their lives and are treated like disposable cannon-fodder.
And one ends up killing the other(private electrical contractor,with risky safety standards kills PRIVATE MERCENARY SOLDIER.
And because all are "private" they fall beneath the accountability radar should something go terribly wrong?

If the Pentagon is hiring/paying these people then it is ULTIMATELY responsible for the deaths and negligence.And should be answerable to the families and the law.
Just like Bush/Cheney and their OLC are responsible for all the torture/abuse and cruel and unusual punishment,that occurred to people through their manipulation of the law.
Obama, don't put yourself in the bracket of these scumbags!
Look twice at your 'advisors',and think with your conscience!
http://rebelreports.com/

Now I don't agree with the Pentagon sub-contracting out to private contracting companies...MERCENARIES.If they DO they should all be covered by the Uniform Code of Military Conduct/Justice and accountable to International Conventions,and counted officially in the Total Forces numbers.
They may wish to go to invasion/occupation(I won't call it a war because it is NOT)on the CHEAP AND NASTY.
But they don't TREAT those in uniform,whether sovereign or mercenary,AS CHEAP AND NASTY.
If they die for OUR Govt policies then they can damn well ACKNOWLEDGE THEM.
They have to recognise the dead officially and respectfully,even if they ARE going to use mercenaries,including American citizens/residents.
After all,Obama WOULD BOT BE ABLE to carry on Bush's invasions/occupations WITHOUT the mercenaries,like them or not.The very reason he uses them is to AVOID drafting non-military voters in ILLEGAL military campaigns and losing their VOTES,or them conscientiously objecting or going AWOL.
So,whether you agree with mercenaries or not,there is NO DOUBT that OBAMA cannot do this without them i.e.continue the Bush 'procurement of foreign resources and destabilizing,CULLING the Muslim herd' campaign.
Every person who fights for the USA(Bad policy or not)should be OFFICIALLY counted in the TOTAL FORCES STATISTICS and not swept or hidden under a dirty policy 'mat'of greed,bigotry and murder.
And that's not even INCLUDING soldiers,mercenaries,domestic contractors who DIE off the battlefield,in their barracks/quarters due to ELECTROCUTION from BAD SUB-CONTRACTING WORK thru'US companies like KBR/Halliburton etc.
Those CEO's are lying,murdering scum-bags.
And that includes the ilk of Erik Prince and his 'crusader' cronies like Cofer Black et al.
Whether sovereign STANDING FORCES or private mercenaries SUB-CONTRACTED through OUR PENTAGON and DoD,ALL THE DEAD,INJURED should be counted,just as the White House COUNTS on them to fill the frontline in its illegal,and so-far HIGHLY UNSUCCESSFUL and LONG military campaigns.
You don't SWEEP OUR DEAD,or ANY DEAD,under the blood-soaked corporate 'rug'.
Congressmen,Genrals Mr POTUS,you don't fly them back in unmarked boxes,under cover of DARK NIGHT either,away from the press.
You insult your nation,our Constitution,and the grieving families.
RECOGNISE and TAKE ACCOUNT for your dead

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15183