Science Applications, which is staffed by former NSA and CIA personnel, is also involved in the Balkans. This firm specializes in training foreign police, including the Bosnian police. But the most important problem with using private companies to arm and train foreign military and paramilitary forces is that the actions of a private corporation are not subject to public scrutiny. The Freedom of Information Act simply doesn't apply to corporations like MPRI, Science Applications, or DynCorp. Any information on who they arm or how they do it is considered private, proprietary information.
Corporate malfeasance is harder to track and harder to punish than governmental misdeeds.
The increasing privatization of the U.S. military is a non-issue in the mainstream press. Again, the issue is one of privatization. Wackenhut Services, which provides security for the Rocky Flats nuclear facility near Denver, is more concerned with profits than with, for example, replacing an aging and faulty alarm system. Over the past few years, Wackenhut has cut the security staff at Rocky Flats from 500 people to around 230. Once inside the nuclear vault, McCallum told Peters, real terrorists would only have to add their own conventional explosives in order to detonate the entire facility.