{"id":674189,"date":"2010-02-24T11:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77544"},"modified":"2010-02-24T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:24:54","slug":"your-security-contractor-oversight-in-one-brief-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/674189","title":{"rendered":"Your Security Contractor Oversight in One Brief Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. George Lemieux (R-Fla.) wants to know which official at U.S. Central Command or anywhere else in the chain of command is &#8220;ultimately responsible for [ensuring] these contracts are being performed the way they&#8217;re supposed to.&#8221; Sensibly, he asked retired Col. Bradley Wakefield, a top former officer at Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, the command responsible for overseeing the training of Afghan security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Wakefield&#8217;s reply? &#8220;Sir, I do not know that.&#8221;<span id=\"more-77544\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;d he report to? &#8220;The commanding general of CSTC-A.&#8221; And if he wanted to follow up on a specific contractor&#8217;s performance? Not his responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. George Lemieux (R-Fla.) wants to know which official at U.S. Central Command or anywhere else in the chain of command is &#8220;ultimately responsible for [ensuring] these contracts are being performed the way they&#8217;re supposed to.&#8221; Sensibly, he asked retired Col. Bradley Wakefield, a top former officer at Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, the command responsible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Po1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}