With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the expanded role of contractors on the battlefield -- from interrogating prisoners to hunting terrorism suspects -- has raised questions about whether the United States has outsourced some of its most secretive and important operations to a private army many fear is largely unaccountable. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.