Digital audio segments focusing on security contractors' issues and debate. Many of these clips have been aired on radio channel, henceforth archived on the internet. Hopefully, this will become customary practice and soon we will be able to bring you more such segments.

• Ain't That Good News. On the Media with Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone, 8 October 2004: "...we learned that the U.S. Agency for International Development is virtually ending the distribution here in the U.S. of casualty reports from a risk-assessment contractor in Iraq called Kroll Security International. ..." [sound and transcript]: http://www.onthemedia.org/yore/transcripts/transcripts_100804_arkin.html

• Congress Hears Emotional Testimony About Lives Lost in Iraq. The families of four privately-employed security guards who were killed in Iraq gave emotional testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday.  They told Congress the employer -- a government contractor -- failed to provide adequate protections. Voice of America, 8 February 2007: http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-02-08-voa56.cfm

• Soldier Recounts Year Spent Training Iraqi Police [Audio]. National Public Radio, All Things Considered, July 9, 2007: click here

• These Guns for Hire: Should the Military be Privatized? New York Public Radio, The Brian Lehrer Show, and 31 October 2006: Doug Brooks and Robert Young Peyton debate the use of private security firms by the U.S. military: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2006/10/31