Private contractors should be held to the same accountability as the agencies that contract them, says University of Baltimore law professor Kimberly Brown.
“From Abu Ghraib to Blackwater, a string of scandals has heightened public awareness that highly sensitive federal powers and responsibilities are routinely entrusted to government contractors,” Brown says in a recently posted 2013 Indiana Law Journal article.
At the same time, the public seems vaguely aware that contractors occupy a special space when it comes to ensuring accountability for errors and abuses of power, she says.