DynCorp has big role, little oversight in war efforts

Contractor with Texas ties operates with secrecy, arouses suspicion By TOD ROBBERSON The Dallas Morning News First of two parts. DynCorp International runs its operational hub from a dark glass building bearing another firm's logo. The office complex, on the outskirts of Irving, gives no indication of the huge footprint the military services company is leaving around the world. Using billions of taxpayer dollars, DynCorp is quietly doing the U.S. government's work in Iraq, Afghanistan and other world hot spots. Its paramilitary forces can kill or be killed in combat, but there's little public accounting of what DynCorp does or whether tax dollars are being well spent. cont....