{"id":507,"date":"2007-02-05T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/02\/elizabeth-palmberg-self-fufilling.html"},"modified":"2007-02-05T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T11:37:00","slug":"elizabeth-palmberg-self-fufilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/02\/elizabeth-palmberg-self-fufilling.html","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Palmberg: The Self-Fufilling Prophecy of Bad Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

This New York Times<\/em> article<\/a> is about how the government, trying to solve the problem that it is being swindled by iffy contractors, hired an iffy contractor \u2013 one that had been contracted to supply interrogators to Abu Ghraib. No, we\u2019re not making this up.<\/p>\n

In June, short of people to process cases of incompetence and fraud by federal contractors, officials at the General Services Administration responded with what has become the government\u2019s reflexive answer to almost every problem. They hired another contractor\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elizabeth Palmberg<\/strong> is an Assistant Editor for Sojourners<\/em> magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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