Top USA defense Companies Trouble

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To save stock markets and bankrupt companies and countries Obama donated mystery $9 Trillion to $50 Trillion because of which now USA defense companies are in serious trouble.

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15 Companies That Will Get Crushed When The Government Stops Spending

#1 Lockheed Martin (Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II multi-role fighter)

#2 Boeing

#3 Northrop Grumman (Northrop Grumman's B2-Spirit stealth bomber)

#4 General Dynamics (General Dynamics Abrams M1A1 Main Battle Tank)

#5 Raytheon (Raytheon's Phalanx CIWS anti-ship missile system)

#6 United Technologies (Sikorsky's UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter)

#7 L-3 Communications (L-3's F/A-18 Tactical Operational Flight Trainer)

#8 Oshkosh Corp.

#10 BAE (BAE's Astute-class nuclear submarine)

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15 Companies That Will Get Crushed When The Government Stops Spending

 

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Weedin' out the bad eggs...

Congress targets contractors and overseas crimes
January 31, 2013 WASHINGTON — With thousands of civilian contractors remaining in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. Justice Department officials want Congress to resolve a legal issue that they say obstructs efforts to prosecute any such workers who rape, kill or commit other serious crimes abroad.

Scofflaw Pentagon employees and contractors supporting the American war mission overseas are subject to federal prosecution in the U.S., but a nonmilitary contractor who breaks the law may fall outside the Justice Department's jurisdiction. Lawmakers plan to renew efforts to extend the reach of U.S. criminal law this session with bills to make civilian contractors and employees liable to federal prosecution for acts including murder, arson and bribery. The last U.S. troops left Iraq in 2011, and President Barack Obama has said the war in Afghanistan will be over in 2014, though thousands of contractors remain to work jobs ranging from construction to diplomatic security. The State Department alone says it has 10,000 contractors in both countries.

Federal prosecutors believe clearer and more uniform rules are needed to resolve a jurisdictional question made murkier by the end of the Iraq war and the ongoing drawdown of troops from Afghanistan. The jurisdictional gap caused problems for authorities during the first prosecution of Blackwater contractors accused in 2007 shootings in Baghdad and could again be a problem as prosecutors seek a new indictment in the case. "There still is this great vulnerability if these contractors get into some kind of scrape, some kind of problem, and there's no clear legal path to deal with it. That can be a serious problem," said Rep. David Price, a Democrat who plans to reintroduce legislation called the Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act.

Previous attempts to close the gap have stalled amid debate over who should be shielded from prosecution and under what circumstances. The Senate bill was tied up in part by uncertainty over how to protect certain contractors and employees, including intelligence agents and law enforcement officials, whose jobs might require them to skirt the law. "We should not require agents to pay for defense attorneys and risk jail time at the political whim of the Justice Department," Sen. Charles Grassley, the committee's top Republican, said at a 2011 hearing.

Prosecutors have had some success using an existing law, the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, to target soldiers and military contractors who commit crimes. Defendants successfully prosecuted under that statute include Steven D. Green, a U.S. soldier convicted in the deaths of an Iraqi family, and Jorge Thornton, a contractor accused of unlawful sexual contact at an Iraq military base. But Justice officials say that statute, passed by Congress in 2000 in response to a child sex abuse case at an Army base in Germany, is too narrow since it doesn't cover non-Pentagon contractors and those not directly in support of the American war mission overseas. That means contractors with no attachment to the military would be exempt from prosecution.

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