We mentioned earlier an investigative report concluding that Defense Dept. work has essentially been outsourced to private companies who work on contracts that the government does not supervise. Now a legal scholar has analyzed the prison torture scandal at Abu Ghraib and linked it with the same poor policies. Check out Steven L. Schooner, "Contractor Atrocities at Abu Ghraib: Compromised Accountability in a Streamlined, Outsourced Government," 16 Stan. L. & Pol. Rev. (forthcoming 2005) (abstract and full paper available on-line).