Mission creep

While any company should feel complete with only a history of over-billing, tax evasion, murder and rape, American defence contractor KBR has never wanted to be just any company. But the controversy surrounding the news that one of their bus drivers has been caught with a cache of kiddy porn isn’t merely in the images themselves, but in the fact that the man had already once been fired from KBR two years ago for suspicion of the same offence.

Although Ira L. Waltrip avoided charges for possessing child pornography in 2006, when the Naval Criminal Investigative Service decided that the hairless flesh he liked jackin’ it to couldn’t be absolutely proven as underage, he didn’t avoid being dismissed from his post at the Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. But months later, he was back on the job, this time in Baghdad. Along with him came his craving for those closer to the point of conception than the age of consent.

KBR says they can’t explain how Waltrip managed to get hired back on after his initial firing, and if their past showing of indifference is any indicator, chances are good they’re not going to try to.

by SCOTT SAXON