US exports waste, fraud and abuse to Iraq via private military contractor

War profiteering gets the spotlight in NYC.

L-3 Titan's translators pretend they know how to speak english or arabic in order to keep high paying jobs. L-3 employs 7000 translators in Iraq. 300 interrogators , screeners and analysts.

A 4.6 billion dollar contract for translation was lost recently for malpractice.

Marwan has witnessed first-hand numerous problems with the way interrogation and translation contracting is being handled in Iraq – a practice that may be putting at substantial risk the national security and lives of the Iraqi people, of U.S. and multinational troops, officials and contractors, and of the United States itself.

"bad translation costs lives"