This day is slipping away from me and I have a ton still to do. But I call your attention for now to this post of mine at the Windy about the Senate’s contractor watchdog, Claire McCaskill, and what she’s found in Afghanistan: a doubling of Defense Department-hired private security contractors in the last six months; big problems with USAID agriculture-based contracts (ag is the new name of the development game from the administration); and “questioned and unsupported costs” from a full 16 percent of $5.9 billion worth of contracts reviewed by the Defense Contract Audit Agency.

I have — alas — to do some other stuff, but you can read all the documents that I used to derive that report on this page. And from there I think you can find a webcast of the hearing McCaskill’s holding now now now on Afghanistan contracts.