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Contract Opportunity: Tracking Detainees' Stuff
Danger Room has uncovered what it calls the "strangest Iraq contract yet": The military wants to hire somebody to account for, inventory, and store the personal property of detainees held by coalition forces in the country.
That may not sound like a very big job, but with 60,000 people already in custody -- and another 15,000 expected to be detained in the coming months -- we're talking about a lot of stuff. The contractor's job will be to keep track of everything and sort out how much of the property already stored in warehouses belongs to "released, deceased, unknown, or escaped detainees."
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
