if not, actually outlaw it completely. >> faisa, to the point of contractors, in july 2012, we had 6.6ars in contracts with academy which is the new name for blackwater. in may that number had had gone up to 8.8 million. you talk about the folks we are contracting out to do the dirty work overseas, what is it that we put any oversight in place. upon. >> to give the u.s. government credit, since blackwater and other abuses, they have tried to tighten up the contracting procedures, but they haven't gone far enough. as i mentioned, the big piece, when they're figuring out who to give a contract to, they're looking at their ability to protect staff and they look at cost, right? but they also need to be looking more broadly at what the human rights record is and what reputational connence skwes it's going to have for the united states to hire particular companies and from what i can tell that certainly doesn't publicly factor into their calculations and they need to be thinking about that. >> do you think that's driven in part by the fact that it's much easier and neater to outsource the wa