The film starts with a look at Blackwater contractors Scott Helveston
and Jerry Zovko, who were killed in an ambush in Falujah due to company
cost-cutting exercises. The film moves on to look at the involvement of
poorly supervised private interrogators and untrained translators from
CACI and Titan in the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. The loss of
traditional military jobs, particularly in logistics, to private
contractor KBR/Halliburton, who put workers like Tony Johnson and Steve
Hullet in danger is analysed by the filmmakers, as is the costplus
arrangement which encourages private contractors to overspend and
overcharge for their services to ensure greater profits. Another major
theme which reoccurs throughout the film is that of Corporations legally
buying influence, through campaign contributions and a network of
connections, at the highest levels of government which allows them to be
rewarded sole-source contract without bidding and to cover-up their own
failures.
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