According to a security guard contracted by the ArmorGroup at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, he and 11 others were pressured to participate in naked pool parties and perform sex acts with one another to gain promotions or favorable assignment. And there are pics to prove it.
"They were not gay but they knew what it took to get promoted," said the guard.
Yeah, you read that right. Don't ask, don't tell, and for Chrissakes, don't step out of the frame while your picture is being taken!
From ABC News:
...The guard, a U.S. military veteran, said top supervisors of the ArmorGroup were not only aware of the "deviant sexual acts" but helped to organize them.
"It was mostly the young guys fresh from the military who were told they had to participate," said the guard, who talked on a phone hook-up arranged by the Project on Government Oversight, which first revealed photographs of the parties.
"They were not gay but they knew what it took to get promoted," said the guard, spoke on condition that ABC News not publish his name.
The State Department said it was investigating the allegations and the circumstances surrounding the photographs which show naked and barely clothed men fondling one another. The guard who spoke with ABC News said the drunken parties had been held regularly for at least a year and a half. ...
Sam Brinkley, vice-president of the ArmorGroup's corporate parent Wackenhut Services, defended the company's performance in Kabul. "We are a guard company that prides itself in doing missions well," Brinkley testified. ...
Watch video of this report from ABC's World News With Charles Gibson here .
For MSNBC's coverage of the "hazing, groping, urinating on each other, vodka shots and potato chips out of body parts," and the State Dept.'s reaction to it all, to watch this:
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