There was an letter about a week ago in our local paper about contractors and contractor employees. Sorry...no link...it didn't make the electronic version of the Albuquerque Journal. A lady wrote in about the "contractor=evil" equation that many people here seem to believe and told about her son, who had been unable to get a job in the States and was now driving a truck for KBR, delivering food to military bases in Iraq. He is unarmed, his truck is unarmored, and the military escort is apparently very limited. He is well paid, because his salary is based upon US pay scales, he gets overtime for the 40+ extra hours he puts in each week, and food and lodging, such as it is, is provided. I suspect that he is pretty typical of contractor employees.

About the Titan people specifically, the article linked above says that they have 200-250 translators in Iraq and Afganistan. Of these, one interpreter at the prison has been identified as a suspect, and [one] who works for a Titan subcontractor, has been accused of lying to Army investigators. That means that less than 1% of their employees have been accused of a possible crime, which is not the same thing as guilty. Perhaps we are jumping to conclusions a bit too fast?