Excerpt:Why does it take photos like the one above and the numerous others that the Project for Government Oversight sent to Gawker and Mother Jones to compel any real action by the U.S. State Department?
The security guards at the U.S. Embassy hired to protect Embassy officials and staff in Kabul, Afghanistan were contracted through the ArmourGroup North America, a division of Wackenhut. They are not U.S. military personnel.
A POGO spokeswoman said that the State Department can't be relied upon to remedy the problem.
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On Thursday, September 3, 2009, POGO reported that one of the AGNA whistleblowers has been forced to resign. The forced resignation follows an ongoing pattern at the Kabul Embassy. Employees of AGNA who didn't want to participate in the flagrantly obscene activities at the Embassy were demoted, forced to resign or fired.
POGO may have a point about the State Department's reluctance to address the problems at the Embassy in Kabul. The only response from the State Department came from a news conference held by spokesman Ian Kelly who told reporters that Secretary Clinton has ordered an investigation in to the allegations of the guards at the Embassy but we're still waiting to hear from Secretary Clinton herself. The reports of problems coming out of the Embassy in Kabul started as early as 2007. Apparently pictures really do speak louder than words.